(maximum: 200 words, word count: 200 words) Purpose: The IntraVoxel Incoherent Motion (IVIM) MRI signal, typically described as a mono-exponential decay, can sometimes be better modeled as a bi-exponential function accounting for two vascular pools, capillaries and medium-size vessels. The goal of this work is to define precisely in which conditions the IVIM signal shape becomes bi-exponential ...

The conventional liquids have some limitations regarding the thermal properties. The nanoparticles addition is one of the techniques which can modify them. In this research, heat transfer coefficient (h) and pressure loss (Δp) of various nanofluids containing Al2O3, SiO2 and MgO nanoparticles dispersed in water in an annular tube with constant wall temperature were numerically considered. Accor...

one of the models that can be used to study the relationship between boolean random sets and explanatory variables is growth regression model which is defined by generalization of boolean model and permitting its grains distribution to be dependent on the values of explanatory variables. this model can be used in the study of behavior of boolean random sets when their coverage regions variation...

In vivo measurement of cerebral arterial and venous volume fractions is important to the understanding of brain physiology and function. By using an intravascular perfluorocarbon and 19F NMR at 4.7 T, regional arterial and venous volume fractions from an intact rat brain were resolved based on the pseudodiffusion coefficients, which were (33 +/- 7) x 10(-3) and (0.45 +/- 0.13) x 10(-3) mm(2)/se...

Both earthquake size-distributions and aftershock decay rates obey power laws. Recent studies have demonstrated the sensibility of their parameters to faulting properties such as focal mechanism, rupture speed or fault complexity. The faulting style dependence may be related to the magnitude of the differential stress, but no model so far has been able to reproduce this behaviour. Here we inves...

The buoyancy-driven boundary-layer flow from a heated horizontal circular cylinder immersed in a water-based alumina (Al2O3) nanofluid is investigated using variable properties for nanofluid viscosity. Two different viscosity models are utilized to evaluate heat transfer enhancement from a cylinder. Exact analytic solutions of the problem are attained employing a novel...

We present near-infrared H-band (1.65 μm) surface brightness profile decomposition for 1157 galaxies in five nearby clusters of galaxies: Coma, A1367, Virgo, A262 and Cancer, and in the bridge between Coma and A1367 in the “Great Wall”. The optically selected (mpg ≤ 16.0) sample is representative of all Hubble types, from E to Irr+BCD, except dE and of significantly different environments, span...