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Itai and Rodeh [IR] have proved thal for any 2-conncctcd graph G and any vertex S E G there are two spanning trees such that the paths from any othcr vcrtex to s on the trees are disjoint. In this p,aper the result is generalized to 3-connected graphs. T ec hn io n C om pu te r Sc ie nc e D ep ar tm en t T eh ni ca l R ep or t C S0 46 2 19 87 -1

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of scatter and its correction on kinetic parameters in dynamic brain positron emission tomography (PET) tumor imaging. The 2-tissue compartment model was used, and two different reconstruction methods and two scatter correction (SC) schemes were investigated. METHODS The gate Monte Carlo (MC) software was used to perform 2 × 15 full ...

INTRODUCTION Information about implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) longevity is mostly calculated from measurements under ideal laboratory conditions. However, little information about longevity under clinical circumstances is available. This survey gives an overview on ICD service times and generator replacements in a cohort of consecutive ICD patients. METHODS Indications for repla...

Save the Children's (SC) successful integrated nutrition program in Viet Nam, the poverty alleviation and nutrition program (PANP), uses the positive deviance (PD) approach to identify key growth promoting behaviors and provides participatory adult education allowing mothers to develop skills related to these behaviors. We investigated whether improvements seen during a PANP intervention (1993-...