A. Samani, I. Sack, D. Plewes University of Toronto, Sunnybrook and Women's College Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Synopsis To increase the displacement SNR in breast MR elastography, tissues are compressed significantly. As a result, breast tissues undergo large deformations. This leads to significant geometric and material nonlinearities. In this study, methods for treating ...

Rodent models are frequently used to improve our understanding of the molecular mechanisms of pain and to develop novel analgesics. Robust behavioral assays that quantify nociceptive responses to different sensory modalities, such has heat, are therefore needed. Here, we describe a novel behavioral assay to quantify thermal paw withdrawal thresholds in mice, called the thermal probe test, and c...

This study evaluates the performance of four evapotranspiration methods (Priestley-Taylor, Penman-Monteith, Hargreaves and Makkink) of differing complexity in a semiarid environment in north China. The results are compared to observed water vapour fluxes derived from eddy flux measurements. The analysis became necessary after discharge simulations using an automatically calibrated version of th...

Thermal hyperalgesia is the heightened sensitivity to heat and occurs during inflammation. NGF-induced thermal hyperalgesia is neutrophil-dependent (Foster et al., 2003). This group previously found that the TRPV1 receptor mediates a bilateral thermal hyperalgesia in TNFα-induced inflammation (Russell et al., 2005), but it is not yet known how TNFα mediates the response. The aim of this study w...

The objective of the present study was to compare the effect of electroacupuncture (EA) and carprofen (CP) on postoperative incisional pain using the plantar incision (PI) model in rats. A 1-cm longitudinal incision was made through skin, fascia and muscles of a hind paw of male Wistar rats and the development of mechanical and thermal hypersensitivity was determined over 4 days using the von F...

The major problem when dealing with modeling evapotranspiration process is its nonlinear dynamic high complexity. Researchers developed reference evapotranspiration (ET-ref) estimationmodels in rich and poor data situations. Thus, the well-known Penman–Monteith (PM) model always performs the highest accuracy results of ET-ref from a rich data situation. Its application in many areas particularl...

1. GoDARTS and UKPDS Diabetes Pharmacogenetics Study Group; Wellcome Trust Case Control Consortium 2, Zhou K, Bellenguez C, Spencer CC, Bennett AJ, Coleman RL, Tavendale R, Hawley SA, Donnelly LA, Schofield C, Groves CJ, Burch L, Carr F, Strange A, Freeman C, Blackwell JM, Bramon E, Brown MA, Casas JP, Corvin A, Craddock N, Deloukas P, Dronov S, Duncanson A, Edkins S, Gray E, Hunt S, Jankowski ...

the purpose of this study was to evaluate three models of artificial neural networks (ann), regression trees (m5) and hargrives-samani (hg) in estimation of reference evapotranspiration. for this purpose was used climate information of sistan va baloochestan, kerman, yazd and khorasan jonoobi from 1998 to 2008. in addition to effect of wind (u) on evapotranspiration (et0), estimation of et0 was...