A 71-year-old man was referred to our hospital because of hematuria. A computed tomography scan showed a huge aneurysm (43 x 32 x 30 mm) in the right kidney. The patient was treated successfully with transcatheter arterial embolization (TAE) using detachable steel coils. At present, 1 year after TAE, the patient has no hematuria and hypertension. To our knowledge, this case is the second larges...

• This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: TANG, L. ...et al., 2015. Modeling and solution for the ship stowage planning problem of coils in the steel industry. Naval Research Logistics, 62(7), pp. 564-581., which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/nav.21664. This article may be used for noncommercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Cond...

Purpose: The aim of our study was to evaluate CE-MRA as an imaging modality for detection of reperfused PAVMs after coil embolization in patients with HHT. Patients and Methods: Between January 2000 and August 2008, 282 patients with diagnosed HHT or first degree relatives underwent screening CE-MRA at 1.5T with gadobenate dimeglumine (MultiHance; 0.1 mmol/kg bodyweight) for cerebral, pulmonary...

A steel hot rolling mill subjects steel slabs to high temperatures and pressures in order to form steel coils. We describe the scheduling problem for a steel hot rolling mill. We detail the operation of a commercial decision support system which provides semi-automatic schedules, comparing its operation with existing, manual planning procedures. This commercial system is currently in use in sev...

Steel production is an extremely complex process and finding its coherent schedules for the wide variety of production steps in a dynamic environment, where disturbances frequently occur, is a challenging task. In the steel production process, the blast furnace continuously produces liquid iron, which is transformed into liquid steel in the melt shop. The majority of the molten steel passes thr...

An idiopathic renal arteriovenous (AV) fistula is a rare malformation of the kidney that may present insidiously with heart failure or hematuria. The treatment may be challenging due to large fistula size that may limit endovascular management. The authors report a case of an 85-year-old Caucasian woman who presented with acute heart failure and was found to have a right renal AV fistula. Since...

The punchless welding point detection system using laser diagnostics for continuous strip production line has been developed. At the entrance of the steel strip production line, the preceding and following coils are welded for continuous processing. The welding point detection and tracking of the position is essential for the setup change of various important processing facilities according to ...

We consider the problem of e&ciently packing steel products, known as coils, into special containers, called cassettes for shipping. The objective is to minimize the number of cassettes used for packing all the given coils where each cassette has capacity limits on both total payload weight and size. We model this problem as a two-dimensional vector packing problem and propose a heuristic. We a...