Space research organizations, hospitals and military air surveillance activities, among others, produce a huge amount of data in the form of images hence a large storage space is required to record this information. In hospitals, data produced during medical examination is in the form of a sequence of images and are very much correlated; because these images have great importance, some kind of ...

OBJECTIVES This study sought to evaluate an imaging approach using gated 99mTc-MIBI (MIBI) SPECT and gated 18F-FDG (FDG) PET for assessment of myocardial viability and cardiac function. METHODS Forty-eight patients (38 men, mean age 68.1 +/- 9.6 years) underwent ECG-gated FDG PET and MIBI SPECT within a week. The baseline diagnoses were coronary artery disease (31), mitral regurgitation (1), ...

and Implications The aim of this study was to test if further grinding of corn DDGS is advantageous in terms of apparent total tract digestibility (ATTD) of DM, GE, nitrogen (N), and NDF in growing and finishing pigs. It was also tested to determine if ATTD was different between hammermill and roller mill grinding methods. There were 3 diets. Each diet consisted of 51% corn ground at 500 micron...

In the design of a structure, one of the most difficult parameter to assess is how the initial condition of a structure will change with time. During its life span, a structure can be subjected to different loads, changes in geometric configuration and even changes in its mechanical properties. Among all factors that can affect the geometrical reconfiguration of a structure (i.e. settlements an...

Context. Debris disks are thought to be extrasolar analogs to the solar system planetesimal belts. The star Fomalhaut harbors a cold debris belt at 140 AU comparable to the Edgeworth-Kuiper belt, as well as evidence of a warm dust component, unresolved by singledish telescopes, which is suspected of being a bright analog to the solar system’s zodiacal dust. Aims. Interferometric observations ob...

An 85-year-old woman presented with elevated liver function tests. A computed tomography (CT) scan showed normal liver morphology and a cyst in the pancreas. Viral hepatitis serology was negative but tests for autoimmune disease were positive: antinuclear antibody 1:320, antismooth muscle antibody 1:40, immunoglobulin G level 2600mg/dL. The patient underwent endoscopic ultrasound (EUS)guided fi...

proceedings, and the present volume comprises such a report of the first conference, which was held in November 1949, under the chairmanship of C. N. H. Long. Each of five sessions was opened by a concise presentation of one topic in the field, as follows: Relation of Chemical Structure of Adrenal Cortical Hormones to Biological Activity, by Edward C. Kendall; Regulation of Adrenal Cortical Sec...

We present a holographic PIV system which extends the standard PIV analysis scheme of two velocity components (2D2C) to the third dimension and overcomes the disturbing background light in deep volume images reconstructed from particle holograms. In a light-in-flight holography (LiFH) setup the short coherence length of a modified laser source is used to suppress light from out-of-focus regions...

In this issue, Mégarbané et al. [2003] describe two brothers with ‘‘IFAP syndrome’’ (ichthyosis follicularis, alopecia and photophobia). After having studied this interesting paper, I am asking myself whether IFAP syndromecanstillbetakenasonesingleclinicogeneticentity. McLeod [1909] described three cases of ‘‘ichthyosis follicularis’’ associated with baldness. His report fell into oblivion unti...

1. The runs differ in the types of features used. All runs use several bag-of-word representations fed to separate linear SVMs and the SVMs were fused by logistic regression. Visual and audio features were used as well as metadata. We added contextual features extracted from the video from which a shot originated.  F_A_brno.run1 (run1) – Only visual information. Dense sampling and Harris-Lapla...