T. Li, M. Martinez-Ramon, G. Heileman, S. Posse MIND Institute, Albuquerque, NM, United States, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, nm, United States, MIND Imaging Center, Albuquerque, nm, United States Introduction: Outer volume suppression is used in MR spectroscopic imaging to reduce contamination from peripheral lipid signals. The placement of lipid suppression slices (sat bands) by a hu...

We present a new type of sat problem called the k-gd-sat, which generalizes k-sat and gd-sat. In k-gd-sat, clause lengths have geometric distribution, controlled by a probability parameter p; for p = 1, a k-gd-sat problem is a k-sat problem. We report on the phase transition between satisfiability and unsatisfiability for randomly generated instances of k-gd-sat. We provide theoretical analysis...

Land surface temperature (LST) is an essential factor in many areas like global climate change studies, urban land use/land cover, geo-/biophysical and also a key input for climate models. LANDSAT 8, the latest satellite from LANDSAT series, has given lot of possibilities to study the land processes using remote sensing. In this study an attempt has been made to estimate LST over Chittoor distr...

Based on the China Meteorological Administration Land Data Assimilation System (CLDAS) reanalysis data and 12–72 h forecasts of surface (2-m) air temperature (SAT) from European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) three numerical weather prediction (NWP) models (CMA-GFS, CMA-SH, CMA-MESO), multi-model ensemble are conducted with a convolutional neural network (CNN) feed-forward (F...

Few well-controlled diet studies have investigated the effects of reducing dietary saturated fatty acid (SFA) intake in premenopausal and postmenopausal women or in blacks. We conducted a multicenter, randomized, crossover-design trial of the effects of reducing dietary SFA on plasma lipids and lipoproteins in 103 healthy adults 22 to 67 years old. There were 46 men and 57 women, of whom 26 wer...

Few well-controlled diet studies have investigated the effects of reducing dietary saturated fatty acid (SFA) intake in premenopausal and postmenopausal women or in blacks. We conducted a multicenter, randomized, crossover-design trial of the effects of reducing dietary SFA on plasma lipids and lipoproteins in 103 healthy adults 22 to 67 years old. There were 46 men and 57 women, of whom 26 wer...

We show that there exists a natural encoding which transforms Min-SAT instances into Max-SAT instances. Unlike previous encodings, this natural encoding keeps the same variables, and the optimal assignment for the Min-SAT instance is identical to the optimal assignment of the corresponding Max-SAT instance. In addition to that the encoding can be generalized to the Min-SAT variants with clause ...

Taking northern Xinjiang, China, as an example, this study first compares the standard MODIS Terra and Aqua snow cover classifications, and then compares the accuracy of the standard MODIS daily and 8-day snow cover products with the new daily and multi-day snow cover combination of MODIS Terra and Aqua observations using in situ measurements. Under clear sky in both products, the agreement of ...

Lipid accumulation in nonadipose tissue due to enhanced circulating fatty acids may play a role in the pathophysiology of heart failure, obesity, and diabetes. Accumulation of myocardial lipids and related intermediates, e.g., ceramide, is associated with decreased contractile function, mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation, and electron transport chain (ETC) complex activities. We tested the...