We present Na, Mg and Al abundances in a set of 98 stars with known giant planets, and in a comparison sample of 41 “single” stars. The results show that the [X/H] abundances (with X = Na, Mg and Al) are, on average, higher in stars with giant planets, a result similar to the one found for iron. However, we did not find any strong difference in the [X/Fe] ratios, for a fixed [Fe/H], between the...

BACKGROUND This large-scale study aims to analyze the association of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) with thyroid diseases. METHODS In this retrospective, nationwide cohort study, 1633 newly diagnosed SLE patients from the National Health Insurance Research Database in 2000 were examined and data on patients with diagnoses of hyperthyroidism, hypothyroidism, and autoimmune thyroiditis were...

We present a method to address the challenging problem of segmentation of multi-modality isointense infant brain MR images into white matter (WM), gray matter (GM), and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). Our method is based on contextguided, multi-stream fully convolutional networks (FCN), which after training, can directly map a whole volumetric data to its volume-wise labels. In order to alleviate th...

This paper presents a fast method for computing whether or not two convex polygons in three dimensions intersect. The test relies exclusively on the sign of 4 4 determinants. The source code is available online.

Some techniques which average multiple AMSR satellite data passes into daily sets create images with diminished temporal resolution. This results from averaging data of multiple overlapping passes separated by many hours. Overlap can be reduced by instead grouping data according to local time of day. This new method maximizes temporal resolution by decreasing both the number and the temporal va...