Forsythia suspensa extract (FSE) has been demonstrated to attenuate physiological stress induced by high temperature or high stocking density. This experiment was conducted with 144 male Arbor Acre broilers (1-d-old, weighing 42.7 ± 1.7 g) to determine the effects of FSE on performance, nutrient digestibility, antioxidant activities, serum metabolites, and immune parameters for birds treated wi...

The Mindlin–Engelbrecht–Pastrone model is applied to simulating 1D wave propagation in microstructured solids. The model takes into account the nonlinearity in microand macroscale. Numerical solutions are found for the full system of equations (FSE) and the hierarchical equation (HE). The latter is derived from the FSE by making use of the slaving principle. Analysis of results demonstrates goo...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The T1-weighted fast spin-echo (T1-FSE) MR imaging sequence is not used routinely, since the speed advantage is not as dramatic as it is in T2-weighted imaging. We evaluated the T1-FSE sequence to determine whether this technique can replace the conventional T1-weighted spin-echo (T1-SE) sequence for routine contrast-enhanced imaging. METHODS Sixty-nine patients with in...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Improving the sensitivity of MR imaging for the detection of multiple sclerosis (MS) lesions in the cord might be useful in the diagnostic workup and could lead to a better understanding of the evolution of the disease. The purpose of this study was to compare fast spin-echo (FSE) with magnetization transfer-prepared gradient-echo (MT-GE) and fast short-inversion-time inv...

As Daniel Speak notes in a recent article, the debate over Frankfurt-style examples (FSE) has focused overwhelmingly on whether such examples in fact show the principle of alternative possibilities (PAP) to be false. According to Speak, in the rush to attack and defend the examples themselves, a subtler and more devastating criticism of the FSE has been missed. For even if the FSE falsify PAP, ...

OBJECTIVES To compare the sensitivity of fast spin echo (FSE) and of fast fluid attenuated inversion recovery (fast FLAIR) in detecting spinal cord lesions in multiple sclerosis. METHODS With a 1.5 Tesla machine and a multicoil receiver array, FSE images (with two different pixel sizes) and fast FLAIR images of the spinal cord were obtained from 13 patients with multiple sclerosis. RESULTS ...

Styphnolobium japonicum (L.) is utilized in Korean medicine for the treatment of various inflammatory diseases. The aim of the present study was to explore the effects of Fructus sophorae extract (FSE) isolated from the dried ripe fruit of S. japonicum (L.) on the development of type II collagen-induced arthritis (CIA) in BALB/c mice. The CIA mice were orally administered FSE or saline daily fo...

Two modified fast spin-echo (FSE) techniques (a 2-point and a single-scan triple-echo Dixon) were used for T2-weighted imaging of the head and neck in 7 patients along with conventional FSE with fat saturation. Both Dixon techniques provided consistent and more uniform fat suppression (FS) than conventional FSE. The 2-point Dixon technique was noted to be more susceptible to motion artifacts. T...

Ensemble learning technique attracted much attention in the past few years. Instead of using a single prediction model, this approach utilizes a number of diverse accurate prediction models to do the job. Many methods have been proposed to build such accurate diverse ensembles, of which bagging and boosting were the most popular. Another method, called Feature Subset Ensembles FSE, is thoroughl...

PURPOSE To evaluate motion artifacts, tissue contrasts, and lesion detectability in the neck with the periodically rotated overlapping parallel lines with enhanced reconstruction (PROPELLER) (BLADE) technique. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 46 patients referred for MRI of the neck were included in a comparison of T2-weighted BLADE (T2W-BLADE) sequence and T2W fast spin-echo (T2W-FSE) sequen...