The circumference of the knees and thighs at three locations was measured in 10 patients on two consecutive occasions by three observers. Analysis of the results for interobserver, intraobserver and among-patient variation established that a change in circumference noted by different observers on two different days is significant if it exceeds 1-5 cm at the midpatella, 2-7 cm at 7 cm above, and...

This study measured the amount of pollution of fast and slow neutrons generated from a Elekta Synergy linear accelerator, using various photons and electrons and two bubble detectors, BDT and BD-PND. The BDT bubble detector is preferentially sensitive to thermal neutrons. The BDPND is the recommended detector for personal neutron dosimetry.First, 10-MV photon radiation fields of 40×40 cm, 30×30...

C M P0 4 The arrowed objects are tyrosine crystals. Tyrosine crystals are rare and their presence in urine is always abnormal. They form clusters of silky needle-like structures that are colorless, or black on focusing. Tyrosine crystals are found in acid urine, increase after refrigeration, and are insoluble in alcohol or ether. They are soluble in dilute hydrochloric acid, alkali and relative...

We define two such pairs (X, i), (Y, j) to be equivalent if there is an isogeny α : X → Y such that if α̃ : End(X) ' End(Y ) is the induced isomorphism, we have α̃ ◦ i = j. It is easy to check that this is an equivalence relation. We write X ∼ Y if (X, i) is equivalent to (Y, j). Let AF be the collection of equivalence classes. We will classify such equivalence classes. Let D be any R-algebra. A ...

Film mulch has gradually been popularized to increase water availability to crops for improving and stabilizing agricultural production in the semiarid areas of Northwest China. To find more sustainable and economic film mulch methods for alleviating drought stress in semiarid region, it is necessary to test optimum planting methods in same cultivation conditions. A field experiment was conduct...

VLA maps of total intensity and fractional polarization at 3.6 cm are presented for eleven radio galaxies, part of a sample of 29 nearby radio galaxies with P 178 > 1:5 10 25 W Hz ?1 sr ?1. Ten have classical double structure. The hotspots in all of these are well resolved. We have discovered a one-sided jet in 3C 135, as well as imaging the known jets in 3C 98, 111 and 445 at high resolution. ...

Numerous applications in agriculture, climate, ecology, hydrology, and the environment are severely constrained by lack of detailed information on soil texture. The purpose this study was to predict particle-size fractions (PSF) Ri-Bhoi district Meghalaya state, India, using a random forest model (RF). For modeling fractions, we employed 95 profiles (456 depth-wise layers) gathered from recent ...

Resonance Raman spectra were obtained for 2-nitrophenol in cyclohexane solution with excitation wavelengths in resonance with the charge-transfer (CT) proton transfer band absorption. These spectra indicate that the Franck-Condon region photodissociation dynamics have multidimensional character with motion along more than 15 normal modes: the nominal CCH bend+CC stretch nu(12) (1326 cm(-1)), th...

The system consists of more than 68,000 codes, compared to approximately 13,000 ICD-9-CM codes. ICD-10-CM codes have the potential to reveal more about quality of care, so that data can be used in a more meaningful way to better understand complications, better design clinically robust algorithms, and better track the outcomes of care. ICD-10-CM incorporates greater specificity and clinical det...