PURPOSE In order to better understand whether white matter structural deficits are present in strabismic amblyopia, we performed a survey of the tissue properties of 28 major white matter tracts using diffusion and quantitative magnetic resonance imaging approaches. METHODS We used diffusion-based tensor modeling and a new quantitative T1 protocol to measure fractional anisotropy (FA), mean d...

PURPOSE To evaluate whether a non-linear blood ΔR2*-versus-concentration relationship improves quantitative cerebral blood flow (CBF) estimates obtained by dynamic susceptibility contrast (DSC) MRI in a comparison with Xe-133 SPECT CBF in healthy volunteers. MATERIAL AND METHODS Linear as well as non-linear relationships between ΔR2* and contrast agent concentration in blood were applied to t...

Techniques for estimating cloud motion and stability for intra-hour forecasting using a ground-based sky imaging system are presented. A variational optical flow (VOF) technique was used to determine the sub-pixel accuracy of cloud motion for every pixel. Cloud locations up to 15 min ahead were forecasted by inverse mapping of the cloud map. A month of image data captured by a sky imager at UC ...

سابقه و هدف: شهرنشینی در جهان رو به افزایش است جمعیت شهری حال متراکم تر شدن شهرها می باشد. یکی از اثرات درصد سطوح نفوذ ناپذیر این مناطق امروزه بسیاری شهرهای مهم جهان، برای کاهش توسعه شهر خود بر کیفیت کمیت رواناب، مفهوم پایدار توجه نموده فنّاوری‌های مدرن سبز مدیریتی، شامل بهترین روش‌های مدیریتی با حداقل جانبی بهره می‌گیرند. بام سبز، یک سیستم چندلایه ای که سقف بالکن ساختمان را پوشش گیاهی پوشانده ج...

In this work incompressible two-phase flows are considered. The aim is to model high density-ratio flows with arbitrary complex interface topologies, such as occur in air/water flows. Between the phases a sharp front exists, where density and viscosity change abruptly. The computational method used in this paper is the mass conserving level-set method. It is based on the level-set methodology, ...

We implement a volume-of-fluid algorithm with a parabolic re-construction of the interface for the calculation of the surface tension force VOF-PROST). This achieves higher accuracy for drop deformation simulations in comparison with existing VOF methods based on a piecewise inear interface re-construction. The algorithm is formulated for the Giesekus constitutive law. The evolution of a drop s...