OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS Determine whether quantitative geometric measures and a computational fluid dynamic (CFD) model derived from medical imaging of children with subglottic stenosis (SGS) can be effective diagnostic and treatment planning tools. STUDY DESIGN Retrospective chart and imaging review in a tertiary care hospital. METHODS Computed tomography scans (n = 17) of children with SGS ...

trace function 45, 46-48, 50, 51, 56, 62, 64 adapted stratification 12, 24, 26, 37, 38, 46, 48, 63, 121, 408 additive character sums 2, 7, 8, 111-158, 161-183, 270-280, 427-428 analytic rank 8, 443, 444, 445, 447, 449, 451, 453 analytic rank, geometric see "geometric analytic rank" analytic rank, quadratic see "quadratic analytic rank" Analytic Rank Theorem 445, 450-454 approximate trace fu...

one of the possible ways to ensure future food needs of an increasing world population involves the better water use through the development of crop varieties which need less water and are more tolerant to drought. in order to study the response of twenty landraces of bread wheat to drought stress, an experiment was conducted in a randomized complete block design with three replications under t...

The divergence through infinity of certain eigenvalues of a linearized differentialalgebraic equation (DAE) may result in a stability change along an equilibrium branch. This behavior cannot be exhibited by explicit ODEs, and its analysis in index one contexts has been so far unduly restricted to semiexplicit systems. By means of a geometric reduction framework we extend the characterization of...

the adverse effect of climate change on agriculture has increased the importance of weather index insurance, particularly in developing countries. by using several econometric models, this study estimated the price and evaluated its effectiveness in rainfall index insurance for rice and wheat in nepal. crop yields associated with seasonal rainfall in three crop reporting districts were applied ...

Many techniques have been developed to quantify different conceptualizations of self-interaction and patterns within spatial data. We propose a new metric related algorithm that describes the geometric disorder geographic point sets, “Index Disorder” (IoD). The IoD was applied synthetic natural datasets shown be able differentiate between areas high (randomly placed points) low (e.g., curviline...

the effect of late planting heat stress on yield and yield components was studied in 11 barley lines from icarda and one cultivar from iran (izeh) during two years (2005-2007) in gachsaran dry-land agricultural research station. each line was planted in a 6-rowed plot at two dates: normal planting (middle of november) and late planting (end of december) with three replications using a randomize...