BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to compare the geometric differences in gross tumor volume (GTV) and surgical clips propagated by rigid image registration (RIR) and deformable image registration (DIR) using a four-dimensional computed tomography (4DCT) image data set for patients treated with boost irradiation or accelerated partial breast irradiation after breast-conserving surgery (BCS)....

This study aimed at investigating the effect of instructional YouTube videos on Iranian male and female EFL learners' listening comprehension. It was conducted with 60 male and female intermediate male and female EFL learners. The Oxford Quick Placement Test (OQPT) was used to measure the participants’ language proficiency to make sure about homogeneity of the participants. The participants wer...

Open Access Recently, as the numbers of diagnostic endoscopic procedures and therapeutic procedures such as endoscopic mu-cosal resection (EMR), endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD), and full-thickness resection of subepithelial tumors are increasing, the incidence of iatrogenic perforations is also increasing. The use of natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (NOTES) techniques also...

Four patients with intracranial aneurysm clips made from a variety of alloys were studied without incidence by MR imaging at field strengths ranging from 0.35 to 0.6 T. Knowledge of the type of alloy used in the manufacturing of an aneurysm clip is important in determining whether the clip will or will not deflect in a magnetic field. Ferromagnetic clips show deflection and torque in a magnetic...

In this paper, we provide a tool for automatically choosing appropriate music clips from a given audio collection and properly combining the chosen clips. To seamlessly concatenate two different music clips without causing any audible defect is really a hard nut to crack. Borrowing the idea from the musical dice game and the DJ’s strategy and considering psychoacoustics, we employ the currently...

In this thesis, I designed a system for augmenting a space with linked audio. Using this system, individuals can associate audio clips with a location in real-world space. When an individual using the system passes through this augmented space, he or she can hear the audio clips that have been left by traveling through the associated locations. Furthermore, audio clips in the environment can be...

Video clip retrieval plays a critical role in the content-based sports video retrieval. This paper proposes a content-based retrieval strategy of sports video clip in which visual and auditory features and text information are extracted to locate similar video clips. Because in sports game play scenes are concerned and interested for most audiences, a long sport video is first automatically seg...

We studied the effects of anteroventral third ventricle (AV3V) lesions on the vascular Na+-pump activity and blood pressure of rats prepared by the two-kidney Goldblatt procedure. Blood pressures and Na+-pump activity of the isolated tail arteries, measured as ouabain-sensitive 86Rb+-uptake were determined in rats with renal artery clips, rats with AV3V lesions, and rats with AV3V lesions. Rats...

We are 21 years into the 21st century, and educational practices across North America were woefully unprepared to ‘flip switch’ online learning; at times no education occurred all, not or onsite. The COVID-19 pandemic disruptor storm peeled off layers of blindfolds time accrued in an instant. Issues included three areas. Area one—unpreparedness: digital illiteracy ...

This study is one of the very few, and the most extensive to date, which has examined deceptive behavior in a real-life, high-stakes setting. The behavior of 16 suspects in their police interviews has been analyzed. Clips of video footage have been selected where other sources (reliable witness statements and forensic evidence) provide evidence that the suspect lied or told the truth. Truthful ...