There is considerable similarity between proton density-weighted (PDw) and T2-weighted (T2w) images acquired by dual-contrast fast spin-echo (FSE) sequences. The similarity manifests itself in image space as consistency between the phases of PDw and T2w images and in k-space as correspondence between PDw and T2w k-space data. A method for motion artifact reduction for dual-contrast FSE imaging ...

Supersymmetry (SUSY) interchanges bosons and fermions but no direct evidence of it has been revealed in nature yet. In this Letter, we observe that fluctuating pair density waves (PDW) consist of two complex order parameters which can be superpartners of the unavoidably doubled Weyl fermions in three-dimensional lattice models. We construct explicit fermionic lattice models featuring 3D Weyl fe...

Aim: The aim of this study is to investigate the changes in platelet indexes, including mean platelet volume (MPV), platelet distribution width (PDW) and platelet count (PC), in patients with acute pulmonary embolism (PE), in addition to evaluating the diagnostic value in clinical forms. Material and methods: The study consisted of 84 patients with PE and the control group consisted of 40 healt...

BACKGROUND Many studies indicated that mean platelet volume (MPV) and platelet distribution width (PDW) may be valuable in the diagnosis and management of clinical disorders; also, serum butyrylcholinesterase activity (BChE) was suggested to be linked to systemic inflammation and oxidative stress. Limited studies measured these readily available markers in children with diabetic ketoacidosis (D...

OBJECTIVE To determine frequency of thrombocytopenia and thrombocytosis, the MPV (mean platelet volume) and PDW (platelet distribution width) in patients with probable and culture proven neonatal sepsis and determine any association between platelet counts and mortality rate. STUDY DESIGN Descriptive analytical study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY NICU, Fazle Omar Hospital, from January 2011 ...

Differential diagnosis of thrombocytosis is not always obvious. The routine clinical chemistry laboratory classically provides only limited help in distinguishing between reactive thrombocytosis (RT) and autonomous thrombocytosis, where platelet production escapes normal regulatory processes, and which is seen in myeloproliferative diseases (MPD) such as essential thrombocythemia and polycythem...

BACKGROUND Sepsis is a major disease affecting almost all organs and systems. OBJECTIVES To examine platelet count and indices (mean platelet volume (MPV) and platelet distribution width (PDW)) in severe sepsis. METHODS Patients with criteria for sepsis at a first examination by an Infectious Diseases specialist were selected. Consecutive patients who were admitted to the out-patient clinic...

OBJECTIVES To examine the relationship between platelets (PLT) and platelets indices such as mean platelet volume (MPV), platelet distribution width (PDW), and plateletcrit (PCT) as noninvasive biomarkers with testicular artery blood flow and fertility. METHODS Fifty-seven healthy and fertile men with normal semen values and 52 patients with abnormal semen values were included in the study. T...

BACKGROUND Mean platelet volume (MPV) is a strong predictor of impaired angiographic reperfusion and 6-month mortality in ST-elevation myocardial infarction (MI) treated with primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). No data is available for other platelet volume indices: platelet distribution width (PDW) and platelet large cell ratio (P-LCR). The aim was to assess the impact of 3 plate...

Since the pioneering work of McGeer in the late 1980s, the concept of passive dynamic walking (hereafter PDW) has been attracting lots of attention in the field of legged robots 1) A significant feature of PDW robots is that they have no control system; they merely exploit their intrinsic mechanical dynamics carefully designed, and show surprisingly natural and human-like walking on a gentle sl...