BACKGROUND Coronary artery calcium (CAC) scoring is a widespread tool for cardiac risk assessment in asymptomatic patients and accompanying possible adverse effects, i.e. radiation exposure, should be as low as reasonably achievable. PURPOSE To evaluate a new iterative reconstruction (IR) algorithm for dose reduction of in vitro coronary artery calcium scoring at different tube currents. MA...

EDITOR: We report a case in which we used the GlideScope to facilitate the successful insertion of nasogastric tube. A 66-yr-old male was scheduled for an elective left-sided hemi-mandibulectomy with radial free flap reconstruction for squamous cell carcinoma of the oral cavity. On assessment, the patient’s airway was Mallampati 2 and mouth opening was three fingerbreadths wide. We induced anae...

ÐMany recent database applications must deal with similarity queries. For such applications, it is important to measure the similarity between two objects using the distance between them. Focusing on this problem, this paper proposes the Slim-tree, a new dynamic tree for organizing metric data sets in pages of fixed size. The Slim-tree uses the triangle inequality to prune distance calculations...

Carbon dioxide miscible flooding has become one of the important technologies for improving oil recovery. The Minimum Miscible Pressure (MMP) is key parameter to realize flooding. As MMP in research area higher than formation fracture pressure, cannot be formed. To address this problem, it necessary find a way reduce MMP. Citric acid isobutyl ester chosen carbon and crude research. effect citri...

The authors examined the extent to which nonverbal behavior contributes to culturally shared attitudes and beliefs. In Study 1, especially slim women elicited especially positive nonverbal behaviors in popular television shows. In Study 2, exposure to this nonverbal bias caused women to have especially slim cultural and personal ideals of female beauty and to have especially positive attitudes ...

input frequency is one of the important variables in design and performance analysis of single-sided linear induction motors (slims). changing the frequency changes both the dimension of the slim in design process and the performance of the designed motor. the frequency influences the induced eddy currents in the secondary sheet as well as saturation level of the secondary back-iron. in this pa...

This paper presents the evaluation of seismic performance and cost-effectiveness of a multiple slim-type damper system developed for the vibration control of earthquake excited buildings. The multiple slim-type damper (MSD) that consists of several small slim-type dampers and linkage units can control damping capacity easily by changing the number of small dampers. To evaluate the performance o...

A dynamic thrust calculation method is proposed on the basis of gap flux density and motor speed. In this method, the steady and dynamic end effect of SLIM are considered with less coupling parameters. Then the aberrance extent of magnetic flux density at different slip frequency and the influence to dynamic thrust of SLIM is analyzed. Using this method, a SLIM can be optimized to increase runn...

S OF PAPERS 217 molecular function terms belonging to 325 diverse functions, summarized into 21 GO slim categories. A total of 302 proteins had assigned 1617 GO cellular component terms belonging to 231 cellular compartments, grouped into 17 GO slim categories. A total of 275 proteins had designated 2256 GO biological process terms from 690 biological processes, fused into 18 GO slim categories...

A better similarity mapping function across heterogeneous high-dimensional features is very desirable for many applications involving multi-modal data. In this paper, we introduce coupled dictionary learning (DL) into supervised sparse coding for multi-modal (crossmedia) retrieval. We call this Supervised coupleddictionary learning with group structures for MultiModal retrieval (SliM). SliM for...