Objective: Basal Indentation (BI) on CT air-contrast enema (CT enema) for colorectal cancer consists essentially of the both factors of a function of geometry and a tumor invasion. This study was conducted to investigate the feasibility of quantitative evaluation of the basal indentation due to a function of geometry (BI-G) on CT enema for colorectal polyps using Cross-Sectional Multiplanar Rec...

Business intelligence (BI) is often seen as a combined business and IT function. As such, the operational structure of BI is not always clearly defined. In this paper, we present an overview of typical BI operational structures and elaborate their characteristics. Based on this analysis, we will (in future work) design a reference process map for BI which can be used as a template to define org...

This paper proposes the Blind Separation of complex signals using a novel neural network architecture based on an adaptive non-linear bi-dimensional activation function; the separation is obtained maximizing the output joint entropy. Avoiding the restriction due to the Louiville’s theorem, the activation function is composed by a couple of bi-dimensional spline functions, one for the real and o...

We first introduce two functions on finitely additive probability spaces that behave well under products: discrepancy, which measures how close one space comes to extending another, and bi-discrepancy, which is a pseudo-metric on the collection of all spaces on a given set, and a metric on the collection of complete spaces. We then apply these to show that the Loeb space of the internal product...

BBN submitted system combination outputs for Czech-English, German-English, SpanishEnglish, and French-English language pairs. All combinations were based on confusion network decoding. The confusion networks were built using incremental hypothesis alignment algorithm with flexible matching. A novel bi-gram count feature, which can penalize bi-grams not present in the input hypotheses correspon...

The incorporation of Bi in GaSb1 xBix alloys grown by molecular beam epitaxy is investigated as a function of Bi flux at fixed growth temperature (275 1C) and growth rate ð1 μm h Þ. The Bi content is found to vary proportionally with Bi flux with Bi contents, as measured by Rutherford backscattering, in the range 0oxr4:5%. The GaSbBi samples grown at the lowest Bi fluxes have smooth surfaces fr...

AIMS This study examined the impact of cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) by triangle ventricular pacing (Tri-V) on left ventricular (LV) function and dyssynchrony. METHODS AND RESULTS Twenty-one patients with NYHA class III or IV heart failure were studied. For Tri-V, two right ventricular (RV) leads were connected to the CRT device via a Y-connector with one lead anchored at the RV ape...

OBJECTIVE We determined the physiological consequences of adrenocortical-specific deletion of scavenger receptor BI (SR-BI) function in C57BL/6 wild-type mice. METHODS AND RESULTS One adrenal from 10-day-old SR-BI knockout (KO) mice or wild-type controls was transplanted under the renal capsule of adrenalectomized C57BL/6 recipient mice. The fasting plasma corticosterone level increased over ...