Introduction: In dual-energy computed tomography (DECT), the Hounsfield values of a substance measured at two different energies are the basic data for finding the chemical properties of a substance. The trends of Hounsfield unit (HU) alterations following the changes in energy are different between the materials with high and low Zeff. The present study aim...

How does cross-linguistic variation in linguistic structure affect children's acquisition of early number word meanings? We tested this question by investigating number word learning in two unrelated languages that feature a tripartite singular-dual-plural distinction: Slovenian and Saudi Arabic. We found that learning dual morphology affects children's acquisition of the number word two in bot...

In this paper, we firstly show that the $N$-dual operation of the right residual implication, which is induced by a left-conjunctive right arbitrary $vee$-distributive left semi-uninorm, is the right residual coimplication induced by its $N$-dual operation. As a dual result, the $N$-dual operation of the right residual coimplication, which is induced by a left-disjunctive right arbitrary $wedge...

Let P be a simple polygon with n vertices. The dual graph T ∗ of a triangulation T of P is the graph whose vertices correspond to the bounded faces of T and whose edges connect those faces of T that share an edge. We consider triangulations of P that minimize or maximize the diameter of their dual graph. We show that both triangulations can be constructed in O(n3 log n) time using dynamic progr...

Extended formulations are now widely used to solve hard combinatorial optimization problems. Such formulations have prohibitively-many variables and are generally solved via Column Generation (CG). CG algorithms are known to have frequent convergence issues, and, up to a sometimes large number of iterations, classical Lagrangian dual bounds may be weak. This paper is devoted to set-covering pro...

the aim of this study was to compare the effects of three types of balancetraining: single task, dual task under fixed priority instructional set (fp) and dualtask under a variable priority instructional set (vp) on the balance of the elderly.the participants were 36 elderly over 65 years old from kerman province whowere randomly divided into three groups (each 12 subjects) based on burg pretes...

Compared to binary self-dual codes, few methods are known to construct ternary self-dual codes. In this paper, a construction method for ternary self-dual codes is presented. Using this method, a number of new extremal ternary self-dual codes are obtained from weighing matrices. In addition, a classification is given for extremal ternary self-dual codes of length 40 constructed from Hadamard ma...

in a novel dual bed reactor fischer-tropsch synthesis was studied by using two diffrent cobalt catalysts. an alkali-promoted cobalt catalyst was used in the first bed of a fixed-bed reactor followed by a rutenuim promoted cobalt catalyst in the second bed. the activity, product selectivity and accelerated deactivation of the system were assessed and compared with a conventional single bed react...

Cyclic and self-dual codes are important classes of codes in coding theory. Jia, Ling and Xing [5] as well as Kai and Zhu [7] proved that Euclidean self-dual cyclic codes of length n over Fq exist if and only if n is even and q = 2 , where r is any positive integer. For n and q even, there always exists an [n, n 2 ] self-dual cyclic code with generator polynomial x n 2 + 1 called the trivial se...