needle insertion is a minimally invasive technique in diagnosing and treating tumors. however, to perform a surgery accurately, the tissue should have minimum amount of displacement during needle insertion so that it reaches the target tissue. therefore, the tissue membrane has to move less to decrease rupturing under the membrane. in this study, the effect of different design parameters on dis...

in the present research, implementations of different computational geometry technologies in isogeometric analysis framework for computational fracture mechanics are investigated. nurbs and t-splines are two different computational geometry technologies which are studied in this work. among features of b-spline basis functions the possibility of enhancing a b-spline basis with discontinuities b...

Design: Each evening, for seven days in a row, volunteers recorded their mood using the Profile of Mood States (POMS) questionnaire. On days three, four, and five of the test, each participant drank 600 mL of oolong tea in the morning and again in the afternoon. One randomly assigned group blindly received tea that had been intentionally treated by three Buddhist monks; the other group blindly ...

A 58-year-old man with esophageal cancer underwent a transhiatal esophagectomy and presented to the surgical intensive care unit (SICU) with progressively worsening shortness of breath 14 days after his surgery. The patient was found to have a left empyema, possibly from an anastomotic leak, and underwent a left video-assisted thoracotomy (VATS) decortication and empyema drainage, and endoscopi...

This paper describes a blind algorithm, which is compared with two another algorithms proposed in the literature, for estimating of the minimum phase channel parameters. In order to identify blindly the impulse response of these channels, we have used Higher Order Statistics (HOS) to build our algorithm. The simulation results in noisy environment, demonstrate that the proposed method could est...