OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to investigate the image quality of cerebral dual-energy computed tomography (CT) angiography using a nonlinear image blending technique as compared with the conventional linear blending method in patients with spontaneous subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH). METHODS A retrospective review of 30 consecutive spontaneous SAH patients who underwent a dual-source, du...

Ore algebras are an algebraic structure used to model many different kinds of functional equations like differential and recurrence equations. The elements of an Ore algebra are polynomials for which the multiplication is defined to be usually non-commutative. As a consequence, Gauß’ lemma does not hold in many Ore polynomial rings and hence the product of two primitive Ore polynomials is not n...

Chapter 1. An introduction to the blending process in English word formation 1 1.1 Blending a punderful process 2 1.2 Research on blending 3 1.3 Data gathering the method utilised throughout this research 5 1.4 Background information a brief history of blends 6 1.5 Classifications and definitions of blends 8 1.5.1 Creativity versus productivity 9 1.5.2 Blending and morphology 11 1.5.3 Linguisti...

In Cognitive Science, conceptual blending has been proposed as an important cognitive mechanism that facilitates the creation of new concepts and ideas by constrained combination of available knowledge. It thereby provides a possible theoretical foundation for modeling high-level cognitive faculties such as the ability to understand, learn, and create new concepts and theories. Quite often the ...

Protein consists of a set of atoms. Given a protein, the molecular surface of the protein is defined with respect to a probe approximating a solvent molecule. This paper presents an efficient, as efficient as the realtime, algorithm to triangulate the blending surfaces which is the most critical subset of a molecular surface. For the quick evaluation of points on the surface, the proposed algor...

A Microsoft Excel macro is described that enables rapid recognition of common opaque minerals. The program uses ore mineralogical features such as reflectance, anisotropy, bireflectance, Vickers Hardness and morphological features (bladed crystals, zoning and twinning) to identify possible candidates from a database of 200 common ore minerals. Reflectance can be estimated from the uncorrected l...

This study investigated the effect of oxygen and micro-cracking on the flotation of low grade nickel sulphide ore. The ore treated contained serpentine minerals which have a history of being difficult to process efficiently. The use of oxygen as a bubbling gas has been noted to be effective because it increases the pulp potential. The desired effect of micro cracking the ore is that the nickel ...

A number of speech errors ore examined which ore difficult to account for by top-down serial processing models of speech production which hove independent levels of processing. In porticulor, most of these errors ore characterized by the presence of on interfering element which is external to the utterance under current construction. This paper has two main aims: to classify these errors, and t...

Simulation technique has been used for a feasibility study of a prospecting project for deep seated ore bodies. The simulation model is divided into three main parts; 1) The bedrock model the mathematical model of the geology in the investigated block.. 2) The ore model the mathematical model of the "economical" targets within the investigated block. 3) The drilling model the mathematical descr...

There has been much work in exploiting the potential field relationships to extract information from the data. Kanasewich and Agarwal in 1970 explored the validity of examining the magnetization to density ratio in the wavenumber domain as an interpretation tool. Directly combining magnetic and gravity derived gravity gradient data in the spatial domain through the Poisson relation has been acc...