Introduction: Correcting respiratory motion is a challenging task in coronary MRI. Commonly, a pencil-beam right hemi-diaphragm (RHD) navigator is used with a constant 5-7mm gating window (GW) [1]. Data following the navigator signal is only used in image reconstruction if the navigator signal is within the GW otherwise it is reacquired. This usually results in 30%-70% gating efficiency which p...

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The GW approximation [1] to many body perturbation theory represents the state of the art technique to calculate the quasiparticle correction to the band gap of solids and has been sucessfully applied to many materials. Although the GW approximation works well with pseudopotentials (PP’s) and plane wave basis sets used within Density Functional Theory Local density approximation (DFT-LDA), the ...

Supernovae have been historically the first envisaged sources of gravitational waves (GW). Although binary inspirals or even periodic GW emitters like pulsars seem to be nowadays more promising sources, impulsive sources of GW such as supernovae should also be considered in the data analysis design of interferometric detectors currently under construction (LIGO, VIRGO). Impulsive GW sources are...

Mining elite alleles for grain size and weight is of importance for the improvement of cultivated rice and selection for market demand. In this study, association mapping for grain traits was performed on a selected sample of 628 rice cultivars using 262 SSRs. Grain traits were evaluated by grain length (GL), grain width (GW), grain thickness (GT), grain length to width ratio (GL/GW), and 1000-...

INTRODUCTION The risk of abortion is known to be high in women with essential thrombocythemia (ET). However, a few studies have focused on the risk of stillbirth among fetuses reaching gestational age compatible with life. METHODS Review of medical charts of pregnant women with ET who received cares at a single center between January 2003 and June 2013 and the English literature in which more...

Objective: Assessment of relevance of IL-6 (-174G>C, -596G>A) genes polymorphisms in the etiology of preterm delivery (PTD). Material and methods: Study group: 150 women with PTD (22+0 36 + 6 gw.); controls: 150 women who delivered > 37 gw. Genetical analysis was performed by PCR/RLFP method. Results: In PTD group -596GA genotype (48.6 vs. 42.7%) and -596AA genotype (24.7 vs. 21.3%) occurred mo...

BACKGROUND We conducted a large national cohort study to examine the risk of cancer among men and women with genital warts (GW). METHODS By use of the Danish National Patient Register, we identified 16,155 men and 32,933 women who received a diagnosis of GW during 1978-2008. Standardized incidence ratios (SIRs) were computed as estimates of the relative risk of specific cancers or sites. RE...