Background Quantitative myocardial T1 mapping shows promise for assessment of various cardiomyopathies. Most available sequences are generally acquired within a breath-hold using a balanced SSFP (bSSFP) imaging readout. However, the signal obtained from a bSSFP imaging readout is T2 dependent, sensitive to magnetization transfer and has increased susceptibility to the B0 field inhomogeneity lea...

As their pace of change accelerates as a result of technological and environmental factors, organizations are faced with challenges in measuring performance. The Balanced Scorecard (BSC) enables managers to translate an organization’s strategic goals into both financial and non-financial performance measures (Kaplan & Norton, 2001). Since being initially proposed by Robert Kaplan and David Nort...

Among the techniques of video processing, video summarization is a promising approach to process the multimedia content. In this paper we present a novel summarization algorithm, Balanced Audio Video Maximal Marginal Relevance (Balanced AV-MMR or BAV-MMR), for multi-video summarization based on both audio and visual information. Balanced AVMMR exploits the balance between audio information and ...

The value returned by Enterprise Architecture (EA) is increasingly under consideration by researchers and practitioners. They struggle to justify the EA investments made. Quantifying the Enterprise Architecture benefits has always been a challenge because measurements and real value delivered can not often be expressed in simple technical oriented metrics only. In this paper we suggest a multi-...

Fertilizer efficiency directly affects the production of continuous cropping greenhouse cucumber. So analyzing the fertilizer efficiency is of great significance in providing decision-making support for fertilization of greenhouse cucumber. By establishing the DEA models of continuous cropping greenhouse cucumber and taking existing data samples as study objects, the problems of fertilizer effi...

Floral traits that increase self-fertilization are expected to spread unless countered by the effects of inbreeding depression, pollen discounting (reduced outcross pollen success by individuals with increased rates of self-fertilization), or both. Few studies have attempted to measure pollen discounting because to do so requires estimating the male outcrossing success of plants that differ in ...

Restoration and improvement of soil quality is the prerequisite for ensuring agricultural productivity food security in India. Although intensification enhanced production, it led to a decline factor productivity, health environment, an impairment quality. The declined manifested through impaired ecosystem services also loss yield profitability. Soil organic C (SOC) considered as panacea mainta...

Birth of babies through in vitro fertilization procedures has Tenewed interest by clinicians as well as laymen in the phenomenon of fertilizatien. In most medical text books, fertilization is treated very lightly giving students the impressien that fertilization is a simple mechanical penetration of a spermatozoon into an egg. This is far frorn the truth. Fertilization comprises ・a series of co...