OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to investigate the dual blood supply of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) and its association with tumor subtype, size, and stage, using computed tomography perfusion (CTP). MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 54 patients (median age, 65 years; range, 42-79 years; 15 women, 39 men) with suspected lung cancer underwent a CTP scan of the lung tumor. Pulmonary ...

The main goal of this study is to develop a general framework for building a hybrid land-cover map by the synergistic combination of a number of land-cover classifications with different legends and spatial resolutions. The proposed approach assesses class-specific accuracies of datasets and establishes affinity between thematic legends using a common land-cover language such as the UN Land-Cov...

Ethics on the Internet has been a widely debated topic in recent years covering issues that range from privacy to security to fraud. Little, however, has been written on more subtle ethical questions such as the exploitation of Web technologies to inhibit or avoid customer service. Increasingly, it would appear, some firms are using Websites to create distance between them and their customer ba...

Land cover is one of basic data layers in geographic information system for physical planning and environmentalmonitoring. Digital image classification is generally performed to produce land cover maps from remote sensing data,particularly for large areas. In the present study the multispectral image from IRS LISS-III image along with ancillary datasuch as vegetation indices, principal componen...

Introduction In the heart, excitation-contraction coupling (ECC) is a sequence of events that begins with membrane depolarization by an action potential (AP), followed by activation of voltage-gated Ca channels in the surface membrane, initiation of Ca release from the SR Ca store by CICR, and the resulting contraction. Most of our knowledge of the mechanistic details of ECC originates from stu...

Introduction In the heart, excitation-contraction coupling (ECC) is a sequence of events that begins with membrane depolarization by an action potential (AP), followed by activation of voltage-gated Ca channels in the surface membrane, initiation of Ca release from the SR Ca store by CICR, and the resulting contraction. Most of our knowledge of the mechanistic details of ECC originates from stu...

Introduction In the heart, excitation-contraction coupling (ECC) is a sequence of events that begins with membrane depolarization by an action potential (AP), followed by activation of voltage-gated Ca channels in the surface membrane, initiation of Ca release from the SR Ca store by CICR, and the resulting contraction. Most of our knowledge of the mechanistic details of ECC originates from stu...

Cardiac Ca(2+)-induced Ca(2+) release (CICR) occurs by a regenerative activation of ryanodine receptors (RyRs) within each Ca(2+)-releasing unit, triggered by the activation of L-type Ca(2+) channels (LCCs). CICR is then terminated, most probably by depletion of Ca(2+) in the junctional sarcoplasmic reticulum (SR). Hinch et al. previously developed a tightly coupled LCC-RyR mathematical model, ...