In order for parallel logic programming systems to become popular, they should serve the broadest range of applications. To achieve this goal, designers of parallel logic programming systems would like to exploit maximum parallelism for existing and novel applications, ideally by supporting both and-parallelism and or-parallelism. Unfortunately, the combination of both forms of parallelism is a...

Injection molding process is one of the most important methods of forming in the plastics manufacturing industry. Shrinkage and out of roundness are phenomenons that affect the final product quality. In this study, the effect of the thickness of cylindrical parts from polypropylene material on shrinkage and out of roundness has been investigated. For this purpose, injection molding process is s...

This paper demonstrates the application of two methods of separating spindle error motion from artifact roundness on a spindle with less than five nanometers radial error. Two error separation methods, reversal and multiprobe, were each applied to data taken on two different test stands allowing direct comparison of the four combinations of hardware and separation algorithm. Because the theory ...

PURPOSE Our study investigated whether any sonographic findings could be useful for differentiating between small triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) and fibroadenoma. METHODS This retrospective study was approved by our Institutional Review Board, which waived the requirement for patient consent. From January 2009 to December 2010, the sonographic features of 181 pathologically proven TNBC ...

A multigene expression assay corresponds to the likelihood of breast cancer recurrence after the initial diagnosis and can be used to guide the decision for additional chemotherapy. However, only few studies have investigated the associations between the imaging features of breast cancer and the results of multigene expression assays. Our study was to identify the relationship between imaging f...

OBJECTIVE To develop a new geometrical index that combines height, waist circumference (WC), and hip circumference (HC) and relate this index to total and visceral body fat. DESIGN AND METHODS Subject data were pooled from three databases that contained demographic, anthropometric, dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) measured fat mass, and magnetic resonance imaging measured visceral adipo...