Background A 55 year old patient presented late to the emergency department following an ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). Coronary angiogram demonstrated occluded left anterior descending artery with backfilling from collaterals. The patient was referred for an in-patient cardiac MRI scan (CMRI) to quantify left ventricular (LV) function and viability. A repeat CMRI was requested 3 m...

Solid backfilling is an environmentally friendly method of coal mining. Backfilling hydraulic supports are important devices in solid backfill In order to speed up the design and manufacturing process them, this paper proposes a support reformation evaluation. The mechanical models top-coal caving were established analyze stress characteristics main structure. ABAQUS was used establish 3D numer...

1. The single station diel oxygen curve method was used to determine the response of system metabolism to backfilling of a flood control canal and restoration of flow through the historic river channel of the Kissimmee River, a sub-tropical, low gradient, blackwater river in central Florida, U.S.A. Gross primary productivity (GPP), community respiration (CR), the ratio of GPP/CR (P/R) and net d...

Porosity has been frequently observed in solidified, deep penetration pulsed laser welds. Porosity is detrimental to weld quality. Our previous study shows that porosity formation in laser welding is associated with the weld pool dynamics, keyhole collapse, and solidification processes. The objective of this paper is to use mathematical models to systematically investigate the transport phenome...

This paper proposes a novel schedule-based approach for scheduling a continuous stream of batch jobs on the machines of a computational Grid. Our new solutions represented by dispatching rule Earliest Gap— Earliest Deadline First (EG-EDF) and Tabu search are based on the idea of filling gaps in the existing schedule. EG-EDF rule is able to build the schedule for all jobs incrementally by applyi...

The highest temperature performance in terahertz QCLs has been demonstrated by using active regions based on the resonant-phonon depopulation scheme along with metalmetal waveguides to provide low-loss confinement, which have been used to demonstrate maximum temperatures of 164 K in pulsed mode and 117 K in cw mode. It is expected that there are two primary mechanisms which reduce the populatio...

The default setting of most production parallel job schedulers is FCFS with backfilling. Under this setting, users must supply job runtime estimates, which are known as being highly inaccurate and inferior to system generated predictions. Recent research revealed how to utilize system predictions for backfilling, and this potential performance gain motivates searching for better prediction tech...

Selective degradation of block copolymer templates and backfilling the open mesopores is an effective strategy for the synthesis of nanostructured hybrid and inorganic materials. Incorporation of more than one type of inorganic material in orthogonal ways enables the synthesis of multicomponent nanomaterials with complex yet well-controlled architectures; however, developments in this field hav...