BACKGROUND Previous studies have reported that the signal attenuation of diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DWI) for normal breast tissue and tumor were well fitted by a monoexponential and a biexponential function, respectively. The aim of this study was to investigate the optimal b-value to detect breast tumors from DWI signal attenuations. METHODS Sixty-four subjects with breas...

The formation characteristics of aerosol particles from pulverized coal pyrolysis in high temperatures are studied experimentally. By conducting a drop-tube furnace, fuel pyrolysis processes in industrial furnaces are simulated in which three different reaction temperatures of 1000, 1200, and 1400 degrees C are considered. Experimental observations indicate that when the reaction temperature is...

Problems labeled ! are important and must be mastered. are harder and cover interesting advanced material that is not properly part of this course. are tangential to the course but cover material that is useful elsewhere. Background A (binary) relation is a set of ordered pairs Two important types of relations are equivalences and (partial) orders: • Equivalence relations are – reflexive (∀x)(x...

Protein A of Staphylococcus aureus is a pathogenic factor whose encoding gene, spa, shows a variation in length in different strains. In this study the spa gene variation in S. aureus isolated from healthy carriers and patients was studied, We also compared this variation among MRSA with MSSA strains. 208 strains of Staphylococcus aureus which we were isolated from Gorgan, north of Iran were st...

This study was designed to investigate the relationship between NO, IL-12, and TNF-α production by J774A.1 macrophages activated with LPS and IFN-γ in the presence of N-[3-(aminomethyl)benzyl]acetamidine (1400 W). 1400 W is a novel, highly selective inhibitor of inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS). We compared the obtained data with the effect of N(G)-monomethyl-L-arginine (L-NMMA) (a nonsel...

Cabibbo-allowed charmed meson decays into a pseudoscalar meson and an axial-vector meson are studied. The charm to axial-vector meson transition form factors are evaluated in the Isgur-Scora-Grinstein-Wise quark model. The dipole momentum dependence of the D → K transition form factor and the presence of a sizable long-distance W -exchange are the two key ingredients for understanding the data ...

Several feeding regimens are applied to improve performance of fertile egg production during times of heat stress. During a period of heat stress (34 to 36 degrees C), two feeding periods were used to measure the impact of feeding time on reproductive performance of Japanese quail (Coturnix cotunix japonica) between 44 and 60 wk of age. Each feeding time treatment had 25 individually caged male...

IN the year 1729, Mary Webb, a girl of fifteen, was apprenticed by the overseers of the Parish of Fulham in the county of Middlesex to Mrs Anne Saint of St Leonard's Shoreditch, Surgeoness. The indenture (Figure 1) bound the girl for seven years, during which time the mistress was to teach her the art.' But what was a "surgeoness", and what art did she teach? The term suggests a female surgeon,...

Geometric and crystallographic measurements of grainboundary thermal grooves and surface faceting behavior as a function of orientation have been used to determine the surface energy anisotropy of SrTiO3 at 1400°C in air. Under these conditions, thermal grooves are formed by surface diffusion. The surface energy anisotropy was determined using the capillarity vector reconstruction method under ...