BACKGROUND AND AIM OF THE STUDY The presence of conformational changes in the aortic root during the cardiac cycle is well known, but precise information on time-related changes at each level of the root is lacking. METHODS High-resolution, 3D sonomicrometry (200 Hz) was applied in an acute sheep model. Twelve crystals were implanted in eight sheep at each base (n = 3), commissure (n = 3), si...

In this using paper a method is presented for the aerodynamic and structural analysis of a horizontal axis wind turbine using simplified methods. In the first part of the program the optimum rotor configuration for twist and chord is determined using the momentum and blade element theories for a rotor without coning or tilting and assuming zero drag average wind velocity. Then coning angle and ...

background: metastasis is one the most leading cause of death from cancer. the chemokine receptor of cxcr4 has an important role in cell migration and cancer metastasis. additionally, metastasis is always associated with the process of epithelial-mesenchymal transition (emt). in this study the correlation between expression of cxcr4 and emt-tfs has been examined. methods: the expression of cxcr...

We have calculated the NLO corrections for the leading twist amplitude of the reaction γ * γ → ππ at large virtuality of the photon and at W 2 ≪ Q 2. With a simple model for the two-pion quark and gluon distribution amplitudes we have estimated that the NLO effects may reduce the leading-order amplitude by as much as 30%. We have found that besides the usual twist-2 quark and gluon operators th...

In addition to optimal conditions, invariant laws of Lorentz, parity and time reversal are imposed to find the relation between observables (spin rotation parameters) and bilinear combination of helicity amplitudes in pion-proton elastic scattering at 6.0 GeV/c. By normalizing the differential cross-section to unity, the magnitudes of helicity amplitudes and the angle between them are dete...

Pretilt angle is a parameter of the utmost importance in the ultimate performance of vertically-aligned negative nematic LC displays. When these devices work in reflective mode, as is the LCOS microdisplays, accurate measurement of pretilt angles becomes a difficult problem, since usual experimental setups based on retardation of the polarization components of the impinging light are proportion...

We study the effects of cardiac twist on phaseresolved cardiac C-arm cone-beam computed tomography reconstruction. First, a numeric, dynamic cardiac phantom is extended with an analytic model describing the heart’s twisting motion. Then, phase-resolved reconstructions are calculated using two methods based on ECG-gating and interpolation of the original motion field, respectively. We assessed o...