PURPOSE We aimed to determine the correlations between the elasticity values of solid breast masses and histopathological findings to define cutoff elasticity values differentiating malignant from benign lesions. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 115 solid breast lesions of 109 consecutive patients were evaluated prospectively using shear wave elastography (SWE). Two orthogonal elastographic i...

The conventional Cobb-Douglas production function model require strong assumptions such as the constant elasticity and the entire frontier efficiency. The varying elasticity production function is an useful extension but it does not take frontier efficiency into account, and the data envelope analysis model involves the use of linear programming methods to estimate the frontier efficiency where...

an h-magic labeling in a h-decomposable graph g is a bijection f : v (g) ∪ e(g) → {1, 2, ..., p + q} such that for every copy h in the decomposition, σνεv(h) f(v) +  σeεe(h) f(e) is constant. f is said to be h-e-super magic if f(e(g)) = {1, 2, · · · , q}. a family of subgraphs h1,h2, · · · ,hh of g is a mixed cycle-decomposition of g if every subgraph hi is isomorphic to some cycle ck, for k ≥ ...

to investigate effects of different super absorbent polymer and animal manure ratios on the quantitative and qualitative characteristics of soybean under drought stress, a split plots experiment was conducted based on randomized complete block design with three replications in marvdasht, iran in 2009. main factor included of irrigation with 50, 100 and 150 mm evaporation from pan class a and su...

The effect of pre-impact waves on the coefficient restitution (COR) in longitudinal impact a uniform elastic rod linear or bilinear inelastic spring supported by fix rigid wall is studied. models may represent quasi-static response of, e.g., small cylinder bit-rock interaction percussive drilling. accelerated to its momentum either force relatively short duration which generates significant (pr...

Medical implants and other biomaterials are used by millions of individuals all over the globe to restore lost bodily functions due injury or illness. Many these fail after a short time have difficulties, despite fact that they play important roles in keeping person's life safe increasing quality their lives. It is lack biocompatibility has proven be biggest downfall biomaterials. Investments t...

Elasticity is the ability of a software system to dynamically scale the amount of the resources it provides to clients as their workloads increase or decrease. Elasticity is praised as a key advantage of cloud computing, where computing resources are dynamically added and released. However, there exists no concise or formal definition of elasticity, and thus no approaches to quantify it have be...

Elasticity is a key property of cloud computing environments and one of the features which distinguishes this paradigm from other ones. An elasticity metric could be used to define and to monitor Service Level Agreements (SLAs), to compare and to benchmark different cloud providers or to improve provisioning and management decisions in real time if it could be measured with some simple procedur...

Modulus of elasticity of flapper valve material is an important parameter for compressor design since it can affect efficiency and life time of the compressor. Modulus of elasticity is usually considered as a material constant. Actually, it can vary with material orientations and conditions and even environments such as temperature will also affect this value. Therefore, the parameters that can...

Series elastic actuation that takes inspiration from biological muscle-tendon units has been extensively studied and used to address the challenges (e.g. energy efficiency, robustness) existing in purely stiff robots. However, there also exists another form of passive property in biological actuation, parallel elasticity within muscles themselves, and our knowledge of it is limited: for example...