We describe a new short cut strategy to image the sediments and salt edge around a salt flank through an overburden salt canopy. We demonstrate its performance and capabilities on a synthetic acoustic seismic data from a Gulf of Mexico (GOM) style model. In this strategy, we first redatum the surface shots from a walk away Vertical Seismic Profile (WVSP) survey to be as if the source and receiv...

there are some evidences on elamite seals that show iranian people had enough knowledge to construct small dome on cylindrical spaces like silo in the third millennium bc. but the foundations of large dome over square spaces were formed in the parthian period. bazeh-hur dome chamber with the corners of wood in khorasan province is the most ancient dome from the sasanian dynasty. since the sasan...

BACKGROUND Little is known regarding vitamin D deficiency (VDD) in African populations and in tuberculosis (TB) patients. VDD has been shown to be associated with TB. OBJECTIVE We aimed to compare the degree of vitamin D insufficiency (VDI) and VDD in TB patients and healthy adult controls in a West African population. DESIGN An unmatched case-control study was performed at a Demographic Su...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate maintenance of proper VDD function, defined as persistence of sinus rhythm with atrial synchronous ventricular pacing, and to define factors predicting failure of the VDD mode in patients with atrioventricular (AV) block and normal sinus function. DESIGN Observational study in 86 consecutive patients (mean (SD) age 74 (12) years; 38 women, 48 men) with single lead VDD pa...

In this paper the gate leakage current analysis of the Conventional 6T SRAM, NC-SRAM, PP SRAM, and P3 SRAM cell has been carried out. It has been observed that due to pMOS stacking and direct supply body biasing in the P3 SRAM Cell, there is a reduction of gate leakage current 66.55%, 34.42%, and 90.99% with respect to the 6T, NC-Cell, and PP cell, respectively for VDD=0.8V. For VDD=0.7V, it is...

Reductions in renal microvasculature density and increased lymphocyte activity may play critical roles in the progression of chronic kidney disease (CKD) following acute kidney injury (AKI) induced by ischemia/reperfusion injury (IRI). Vitamin D deficiency is associated with tubulointerstitial damage and fibrosis progression following IRI-AKI We evaluated the effect of vitamin D deficiency in s...

Vitamin D deficiency (VDD) increases the risk of death in hospitalized patients. Renal ischemia/reperfusion injury (IRI) induces acute kidney injury (AKI), which activates cell cycle inhibitors, including p21, a cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor and genomic target of 25-hydroxyvitamin D, which is in turn a potent immunomodulator with antiproliferative effects. In this study, we assess the impac...

In Arabidopsis thaliana, the three MADS box genes SEEDSTICK (STK), SHATTERPROOF1 (SHP1), and SHP2 redundantly regulate ovule development. Protein interaction studies have shown that a multimeric complex composed of the ovule identity proteins together with the SEPALLATA MADS domain proteins is necessary to determine ovule identity. Despite the extensive knowledge that has become available about...

This paper compares two methods of non-uniform ECG sampling: the variable depth decimation (VDD) and the continuous non-uniform sampling (CNU). The VDD algorithm uses the wavelet-based time-scale decomposition of the segmented ECG in which the high frequency scales representation is eliminated for the signal sections of narrower bandwidth (e.g. T-P segment). In result, the signal is locally dec...

The use of multiple voltage settings for dynamic power management is an effective design technique. Recent research has shown that testing for resistive bridging faults in such designs requires more than one voltage setting for 100% fault coverage; however switching between several supply voltage settings has a detrimental impact on the overall cost of test. This paper proposes an effective gat...