Methods Ten patients with adult-onset GHD and ageand sexmatched controls (n=10) underwent CMR. Patients underwent scans before disease treatment and at twelve months after treatment. Cardiac parameters were calculated and indexed to body surface area (BSA). The comparison between groups was done using Mann-UWhitney test and within the group using Wilcoxon test. The data are presented as median ...

We have examined the relationship between insulin-induced receptor downregulation and the induction of a postreceptor defect in the insulin-stimulated glucose transport system in rat adipocytes, and found that downregulation was linked to the expression of the postreceptor defect. When recycling of insulin receptors was inhibited by 20 mM Tris, insulin pretreatment (100 ng/ml) for 4 h at 37 deg...

Analysing metal surfaces of massive metal instruments like boilers are tedious process, which also require very specialized equipments. To employ the surface analysis schemes at a lower cost, image processing facilitates many processing methodologies. Using the camera captured live images of the metal surface from the massive metal equipments, image processing techniques can be applied and simi...

The problem of surface defects is a major quality concern in continuous casting. Although there exist methods in the literature to effectively detect surface defects, most are limited to specific defect types, and there is a paucity of research for classification of various defects. This paper presents a methodology for online detection and classification of surface defects in continuous castin...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to develop a robot vision system for surface defect detection of 3D objects. It aims at the ill-defined qualitative items such as stains and scratches. Design/methodology/approach – A robot vision system for surface defect detection may counter: high surface reflection at some viewing angles; and no reference markers in any sensed images for matching. A fi...

Because of the perceived lack of systematic analysis in illumination system design processes and a lack of criteria for design methods in vision detection a method for the design of a task-oriented illumination system is proposed. After detecting the micro-defects of a gyroscope pivot bearing with a high curvature glabrous surface and analyzing the characteristics of the surface detection and r...

We study the influence of a point defect on the profile of a growing surface in the single-step growth model. We employ the mapping to the asymmetric exclusion model with blockage, and using Bethe-Ansatz eigenfunctions as a starting approximation we are able to solve this problem analytically in two-particle sector. The dip caused by the defect is computed. A simple renormalization group-like a...

We propose an equation that describes the shape of the driven contact line in dynamics in presence of arbitrary (possibly random) distribution of the surface defects. It is shown that the triple contact line depinning differs from the depinning of interfaces separating two phases; the equations describing these phenomena have an essential difference. The force-velocity dependence is considered ...

The mechanisms of formation of a metastable defect isomer of fullerene C 60 due to the Stone-Wales transformation are theoretically studied. It is demonstrated that the paths of the " dynamic " Stone-Wales transformation at a high (sufficient for overcoming potential barriers) temperature can differ from the two " adiabatic " transformation paths discussed in the literature. This behavior is du...