Introduction: Artifacts in diffusion weighted EPI (DW-EPI) can be significantly reduced by increasing the speed with which k-space is traversed along the phaseencoding (PE) direction. The traverse speed can be increased through parallel acquisition techniques (PAT) [1] and by shortening the time between two successive samples in the PE direction (echo spacing ES). ES can be decreased through th...

The soil water retention curve (SWRC) relates moisture to energy (matrix potential). calculation of the volumetrichumidity considers sample volume. In retractable soils, this volume varies according drying or wetting soil, which can result in errors calculated moisture. objective study is quantify variation soils and elaborate SWRC via traditional method, does not consider retraction, a second ...

BACKGROUND In order to understand the cross-resistance between epirubicin (EPI) and mitoxantrone (MIT), EPI- and MIT-resistant cells were established and their cross-resistance was evaluated. MATERIALS AND METHODS The degrees of growth inhibition of EPI-resistant HLE-EPI cells and MIT-resistant HLE-MIT cells by anticancer drugs were measured. The mRNA expressions of multidrug resistance prote...

PURPOSE To assess the feasibility of diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) using simultaneous multislice (SMS) acquisition with blipped controlled aliasing in parallel imaging (CAIPI) for accelerated readout-segmented echo planar imaging (rs-EPI) of the mandibular nerves. DTI of the mandibular nerves using EPI is challenging due to susceptibility artifacts. Rs-EPI is less prone to artifacts but associ...

BACKGROUND Severe preamputation pain is associated with phantom limb pain (PLP) development in limb amputees. We investigated whether optimized perioperative analgesia reduces PLP at 6-month follow-up. METHODS A total of 65 patients underwent lower-limb amputation and were assigned to five analgesic regimens: (1) Epi/Epi/Epi patients received perioperative epidural analgesia and epidural anes...

let a be a banach algebra and e be a banach a-bimodule then s = a  e, the l1-direct sum of a and e becomes a module extension banach algebra when equipped with the algebras product (a; x):(a′; x′) = (aa′; a:x′ + x:a′). in this paper, we investigate △-amenability for these banach algebras and we show that for discrete inverse semigroup s with the set of idempotents es, the module extension bana...

let $r$ be a commutative ring with identity and $m$ be a finitely generated unital $r$-module. in this paper, first we give necessary and sufficient conditions that a finitely generated module to be a multiplication module. moreover, we investigate some conditions which imply that the module $m$ is the direct sum of some cyclic modules and free modules. then some properties of fitting ideals of...

The Vertex Locator of the LHCb experiment is a dedicated subdetector for the reconstruction of primary and secondary vertices in b-hadron decays. The vertex detector features two halves with 21 modules each, mounted on retractable bases. Each module consists of two half-disk silicon micro-strip sensors measuring hits in R and Φ coordinates. The strip pitch ranges from 40 to about 100 μm. A vacu...