Methods 11 Volunteers (30±8 years) and 3 patients (41±11 years) were investigated at a 3T whole body MR scanner (Achieva, Philips) with a 32 channel cardiac coil. The patients suffered from DCM, asynchrony and/or LBBB. A velocity encoded (TPM) navigated segmented gradient echo sequence was applied in the apical, equatorial and basal slice. The acquisition parameters were: FOV=340mm, in-plane re...

Reed valves in many small compressors arc usually activated automatically by pressure differences across the valve. These valves arc sometime called automatic valves. They have a very simple geometry and construction but they comprise one of the most complicated performance characteristics. The unsteady vibration of the valve reed during the operation requires a proper design. Generally too sti...

There are two important aspects to good injector performance in rocket engines—the atomization performance (droplet size and distribution, for example) and uniformity of operation (even distribution of droplets in time and space). In general, both of these aspects are affected by the geometry and operating conditions of the injector. In studying atomization performance, prior work has largely f...

We return today to property testing and a surprising application of F2 estimation (or equivalently `2-norm approximation) for the problem of testing the closeness to uniform of a probability distribution. We consider discrete distributions on the domain [n]. Each such distribution is given by a probability vector p = (p1, . . . , pn). The uniform distribution U on [n] has Ui = 1/n for all i ∈ [...

UNLABELLED Uniformity testing is performed daily to ensure adequate camera performance before clinical use. The aim of this study is to assess the reliability of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center's locally built, centralized, Web-based uniformity analysis system by examining the differences between manufacturer and Web-based National Electrical Manufacturers Association integral uniformity c...

In this thesis, we step inside an unexplored region of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) research. Nowadays, almost all WSNs research relies upon a hidden uniformity assumption. This assumption involves deployment, distribution and radio transmissions. Unfortunately, the real world is not uniform. In the thesis, we break the uniformity assumption and study the non-uniformity influence in WSNs. In...

This paper proposes a positive temperature coefficient (PTC) self-heating method, in which EVs can be operated independently of external power source at low temperature, with a lithium-ion battery (LIB) pack discharging electricity to provide PTC material with power. Three comparative heating experiments have been carried out respectively. With charge/discharge tests implemented, results demons...

This paper describes a new approach for the classification of brain tissues into White Matter, Gray Matter, Cerebral Spinal Fluid, Glial Matter, Connective and MS lesion in multiple sclerosis. The proposed approach employs singular value decomposition on multiwavelet transformed images. Single level multiwavelet transformation decomposes images into 16 subbands, and each subband represents the ...

in this paper, the effects of reflected waves of the facets on the internal optical intensity of semiconductor dfb lasers are investigated. the uniformity of optical intensity along the cavity length is evaluated with flatness parameter. the dependence of this parameter on coupling coefficient, reflectivity and grating phase at the facets is also studied. this investigation shows that in some s...