During the development of the dorsal feather pattern, a wave of morphogenesis sweeps across the skin forming successive anteroposterior rows of feather primordia. The preceding paper in this series showed that the morphogenetic wave is almost immediately preceded by a wave of determination at which feathers sites are established row by row, (Davidson, 1983). The present paper reports an in vitr...

It is demonstrated that an AT-cut quartz crystal driven in the thickness-shear-wave mode and typically used as a sensor to monitor the viscoelastic shear-wave properties of a fluid also produce longitudinal pressure waves. Unlike the shear wave, these waves are capable of long-range propagation through the fluid and of reflection at its boundaries, notably at an outer fluid–air interface. They ...

An experimental observation of a new nonlinear-modulation effect for longitudinal elastic waves is reported. The phenomenon is a direct elastic wave analogy with the so-called Luxemburg-Gorky (L-G) effect known over 60 years for radio waves propagating in the ionosphere. The effect consists of the appearance of modulation of a weaker initially non-modulated wave propagating in a nonlinear mediu...

Background To evaluate whether conventional ultrasound, elastography [conventional strain elastography of elasticity imaging, acoustic radiation force impulse induced strain elastography of virtual touch tissue imaging, and a novel two-dimensional shear wave elastography of virtual touch tissue imaging quantification] and clinicopathological factors are associated with axillary lymph node metas...

The aim of this study was to analyze the changes of the middle hepatic vein (MHV) spectra in patients with pulmonary hypertension (PH) caused by congenital heart disease (CHD) and determine the proper parameters of MHV to predict PH. Eighty patients with CHD were included, whose pulmonary artery pressure was measured via right heart catheterization, and the MHV spectra were detected via echocar...

BACKGROUND Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a known risk factor for ischemic stroke. Electrocardiographic predictors of AF in population studies such as the Framingham Heart Study, as well as in hypertensive patients have demonstrated a predictive value of the P-wave duration for development of AF. QRS vector magnitude has had a predictive value in ventricular arrhythmia development. We aimed to ass...

Background: The study was designed to explore the impact of di erent methodologies on P wave duration estimates. Furthermore, the required recording length to ensure reproducibility from un ltered signal-averaged P wave analysis was investigated. Finally, the reproducibility of P wave morphology classi cation was investigated and an algorithm for automated classi cation was designed. Methods: 1...

BACKGROUND The Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) for the assessment of depressive symptoms is well established in clinical settings. An applied version (BDI-V) was previously developed in German for use within epidemiologic studies. The current study analyses the association between this applied version of the BDI and different measures of functioning. The aim is to determine BDI-V cut-off values...

Throughout this section, G = (V,E) is a multi-graph. A cut of G is a bipartition (S, S̄) of the vertex set of G. The capacity of a cut is the number of edges having one endpoint on both sides of the cut. A min-cut is a cut of minimum capacity. A minimum cut can be computed with the help of maxflow computations. For some vertex s and every other vertex t, one computes the minimum cut separating s...