Tissue clarification has been recently proposed to allow deep tissue imaging without light scattering. The clarification parameters are somewhat arbitrary and dependent on tissue type, source and dimension: every laboratory has its own protocol, but a quantitative approach to determine the optimum clearing time is still lacking. Since the use of transgenic mouse lines that express fluorescent p...

In this paper, two novel alkali clearable disperse dyes were synthesized. 4-flourosulfonyl aniline and 2-nitro-4-flourosulfonyl aniline were utilized as the diazo components and 2- naphthol as the coupling component. The DSC, FTIR, 1HNMR and UV-Vis analyses were used to characterize the synthesized intermediates and dyes. The synthesized dyes were used to dye polyester fibers and their dyeing p...

Received Dec 20, 2016 Revised May 12, 2017 Accepted Jun 6, 2017 Stability studies of multi machine system are a major concern to power system engineers due to the increasing complexity involved. This paper deals with the application of a nonlinear technique called Dynamic Inversion, to TCSC for the improvement of stability of multi-machine system. The transient stability studies for various cas...

Colonoscopy is effective in reducing the morbidity and mortality associated with colorectal cancer (CRC). Interval cancers or post-colonoscopy CRCs, are cancers detected within the surveillance interval, or between 6-36 months after a clearing colonoscopy. The incidence of interval cancers is 3.4%-9.2% of all detected CRCs, as reported in population-based studies. Colonoscopy is a technically d...

In this paper, the nonlinear mapping relation between the transient energy margin and the generator power at different fault clearing time and load levels was established by using the self-organizing feature map. Lyapunov’s direct method was used as a fast method to obtain the training set of the neural network. The transient security power limits of the generator at different fault clearing ti...

With greater penetration of renewable generation, the uncertainty faced in electricity markets has increased substantially. Conventionally, generators are assigned a pre-dispatch quantity in advance of real time, based on estimates of uncertain quantities. Expensive real time adjustments then need to be made to ensure demand is met, as uncertainty takes on a realization. We propose a new stocha...

In many service systems, customers may choose to abandon the system if their wait is deemed excessive. In an observable queue, the server is always aware that an abandoning customer has left the queue. However, in unobservable queues, the fact that the customer has abandoned the system may be unbeknownst to the server. Not only are the abandoning customers unobservable to the server, the server...

Multichannel intraluminal impedance (MII) is a new diagnostic test for gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD). The objective of this report is to determine the accuracy of MII in detecting individual reflux events (REs) identified by pH probe and manometry, as well as their clearing in patients with severe GERD compared with normal volunteers. Ten severe GERD patients and 10 normal volunteers u...