Groundwater protection against geogenic and anthropogenic diffuse pollutants are of preeminent importance for convoying groundwater-dependent hydro-aquatic ecosystems safeguarding human health by securing a safe sustainable water security plan. Mapping groundwater vulnerability to pollution represents topical area research where traditional models suffer from inherent prejudices. A novel approa...

The effectiveness of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to monitor thermal lesions created by High Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) in rabbit liver in vivo is investigated. The MRI sequences of T1-weighted, and T2-weighted fast spin echo (FSE) were evaluated. The main goal in this paper was to find the range of repetition time (TR) and range of echo time (TE) which maximizes the contrast to no...

conclusion using standard imaging parameters, each mri sequence reaches its maximum si in a specific contrast concentration, which is highest in se and least in ir in a comparison between se, fse and ir sequences. results this study shows that maximum si will appear at different ranges in different sequences. the maximum si can be seen at concentrations of 5.95, 4.96 and 3.98mmol/l for se, fse ...

Introduction Radial fast spin-echo (Radial-FSE) methods have been used to produce high-resolution diffusion-weighted images that are insensitive to motion and/or magnetic field inhomogeneity [1,2]. However, one of the drawbacks of radial-FSE is the long acquisition time, compared to single shot echo planar imaging, required for high resolution images with sufficient signal to noise ratio (SNR)....

Commentary Febrile seizures are one of the more common conditions seen by child neurologists and were probably overtreated for many decades with medications such as phenobarbital. More recent years have seen child neurologists trained to reduce the amount of both treatments and diagnostic testing of children with febrile seizures, even when prolonged and classified as febrile status epilepticus...

BACKGROUND Quorum sensing (QS) plays an important role in the production of virulence factors and pathogenicity in Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and the interruption of QS will be a hopeful pathway to combat bacterial infection. OBJECTIVE In this study, we selected Forsythia suspense (Thunb.) Vahl from traditional Chinese herbal medicines for its anti-QS activity. MATERIALS AND METHODS Anti-QS of...

A study of final-state effects ~FSE! on the dynamic structure function of superfluid He in the GerschRodriguez formalism is presented. The main ingredients needed in the calculation are the momentum distribution and the semidiagonal two-body density matrix. The influence of these ground-state quantities on the FSE is analyzed. A variational form of r2 is used, even though simpler forms turn out...

INTRODUCTION: The Double Inversion Recovery Fast spin echo (DIR-FSE) sequence [1] is a key component of cardiac MR examination. It allows to homogenously suppress blood signal for a better depiction of the myocardium. Black blood imaging of the heart is usually performed during the mid-diastolic rest. This is a consequence of the long inversion time (TI) required to suppress the blood signal wh...

In fuzzy set theory, similarity phenomenon is approached using so-called fuzzy equivalence relations. An important role in fuzzy modeling is played by similarity-based closure (called also the extensional hull). Intuitively, the degree to which an element x belongs to a similarity-based closure of a fuzzy set A is the degree to which it is true that there is an element y in A which is similar t...

In this work we present a construction method for interval-valued fuzzy preference relations from a fuzzy preference relation and the representation of the lack of knowledge or ignorance that experts suffer when they define the membership values of the elements of that fuzzy preference relation. We also prove that, with this construction method, we obtain membership intervals for an element whi...