Relative area of emphysema below -910 Hounsfield units (RA-910) and 15th percentile density (PD15) are quantitative computed tomography (CT) parameters used in the diagnosis of emphysema. New concepts for noninvasive diagnosis of emphysema are aerosol-derived airway morphometry, which measures effective airspace dimensions (EAD) and aerosol bolus dispersion (ABD). Quantitative CT, ABD and EAD w...

* Department of Radiology, Shimane Medical University, Izumo 693, Japan. ** Department of Environmental Technology , Fukui Institute of Technology, Fukui 910, Japan. *** Department of Experimental Radiology and Health Physics, Fukui Medical Univer sity School of Medicine, Fukui 910-11. Japan. **** Department of Experimental Radiology , Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto University, kyoto 606, Japan. (R...

A hybrid shuffled complex evolution approach with pattern search for unconstrained optimization Viviana Cocco Mariani a,∗, Leandro dos Santos Coelho b a Department of Mechanical Engineering, Pontifical Catholic University of Parana, Imaculada Conceição, 1155, Zip code 80215-910, Curitiba, PR, Brazil b Industrial and Systems Engineering Graduate Program, Pontifical Catholic University of Parana,...

OBJECTIVES Suture materials are widely used in urology. The interaction of these materials with the extracellular matrix in the inflammatory process can be estimated by stereology of collagen fibers and the present study was designed to determine the behavior of the bladder tissue of rats to grafts of the biopolymer of sugar cane (BPCA), and the inflammation and intravesical stone formation com...

*Department of Materials Science and Engineering , Graduate School of Engineering, University of Fukui, 3-9-1 Bunkyo, Fukui 910-8507, Japan **Department of Frontier Fiber Technology and Science, Graduate School of Engineering, University of Fukui, 3-9-1 Bunkyo, Fukui 910-8507, Japan ***Department of Cosmeceutic and Tsuzuki Institute for Traditional Medicine , China Medical University, No. 91 Hs...

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Trinh Phi Hai 1, Hector Cho 1, Il-Yop Chung 1,*, Hyun-Koo Kang 2, Jintae Cho 2 and Juyong Kim 2 1 School of Electrical Engineering, Kookmin University, 861-1, Jeongneung-dong, Seongbuk-gu, Seoul 02707, Korea; [email protected] (T.P.H.); [email protected] (H.C.) 2 Korea Electric Power Research Institute (KEPRI), 105 Munji-ro, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 34056, Korea; [email protected] (H.-K.K.);...

Career Design Laboratory for Gender Equality, Kanazawa University, Kakuma-machi, Kanazawa 920-1192, Japan 1The National Institute of Vocational Rehabilitation, 3-1-3 Wakaba, Mihama-ku, Chiba 261-0014, Japan 2Graduate School of Engineering, University of Fukui, 3-9-1 Bunkyo, Fukui 910-8507, Japan 3Faculty of Regional Science, Tottori University, 4-101 Koyama-cho Minami, Tottori 680-8550, Japan 4...