Ultrasound elasticity imaging has been developed over the last decade to estimate tissue stiffness. Shear wave elasticity imaging (SWEI) quantifies tissue stiffness by measuring the speed of propagating shear waves following acoustic radiation force excitation. This work presents the sequencing and data processing protocols of SWEI using a Verasonics system. The selection of the sequence parame...

INTRODUCTION Sex workers (SWs) are vulnerable to HIV, hepatitis, and syphilis coinfection. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted in Tubarão, Laguna, and Imbituba, Southern Brazil. We surveyed 147 SWs using face-to-face interviews and blood sampling for serological evaluation. RESULTS Prevalence of hepatitis B (HBV) was 23.1%, syphilis 19.7%, hepatitis C (HCV) 8.8%, and HIV 8.8%. Of ...

With the large-scale deployment of industrial Internet things (IIoT) devices in 5/6G environments, number vulnerabilities threatening IIoT security is growing dramatically, including a mass undisclosed that lack mitigation measures. Coordination vulnerability disclosure (CVD) one most popular sharing solutions, which workers (SWs) can develop patches together. However, CVD assumes SWs are all h...

The use of Semantic Web Service (SWS) technologies have been suggested to enable more dynamic B2B integration of heterogeneous systems and partners. We present our approach to accomplish dynamic B2B integrations based on the WSMX SWS environment. We particularly show howWSMX can be made to support the RosettaNet e-business framework and how it can add dynamics to B2B interactions by automating ...

This exercise summarizes the basic brain processes in sleep and the use of the EEG (electroencephalogram; "brain waves") to measure sleep stages. It includes the following topics: ! sleep as an active process and brain areas that turn it on ! the EEG: how it is recorded and what it shows about brain activity ! the EEG for the two basic kinds of sleep, slow wave sleep (SWS) and rapid eye movemen...

Images are nonstationary in nature. Hard-Partition-Based Weighted Sum (HWS) filters give good results in handling both flat regions and details in application such as image enhancement. But due to their non-differentialable filtering operation, their global optimization is difficult to achieve. In this paper, we introduced a new type of Soft-PartitionBased Weighted Sum (SWS) filters, whose filt...

sturge-weber syndrome (sws) is a very rare congenital disorder that is manifested by facial capillary malformation (port wine stain) which may be associated with capillary – venous malformations affecting many parts such as the brain, eyes facial skin and mucosa and also airways. in this report we present an unusual 28 years old female case of sws that presented with signs and symptoms of sudde...

This paper provides an overview of the results of the first year of the Semantic Web Services Challenge. Other papers in this same conference proceedings provide detail of participant contributions as well as lessons learned. This paper is an introduction to the Challenge purpose, organization, methodology, problems, and