OBJECTIVES While computed tomography colonography (CTC) has become a non-invasive alternative to traditional colonoscopy, superficial lesions tend be harder detect, with reports of <2 mm in height being missed. Therefore, for the evaluation lesion detectability using CTC, optimizing scan parameters becomes important. In this study, we investigate effect reconstructed matrix size from CTC on con...

The decomposition of austenite to ferrite or cementite begins at the equilibrium phase boundary of austenite/ (ferrite austenite) or austenite/(cementite austenite) in binary Fe–C phase diagram. The temperature values on the phase boundaries of austenite/(ferrite austenite) and austenite/(cementite austenite) at a certain carbon content are called Ae3 and Acm temperatures of the steel, respecti...

Annette von Drygalski, Christian Furlan-Freguia, Wolfram Ruf, John H. Griffin and Laurent O. Dependent on the Endothelial Protein C Receptor Organ-Specific Protection Against Lipopolysaccharide-Induced Vascular Leak Is Print ISSN: 1079-5642. Online ISSN: 1524-4636 Copyright © 2013 American Heart Association, Inc. All rights reserved. Greenville Avenue, Dallas, TX 75231 is published by the Ameri...

Let’s begin by briefly reviewing the Matlab routines required for VQ-based image compression. First, note that the VQ parameters are set on lines 13-19 of prob1.m. The general VQ framework is implemented by learnVQ.m, which uses the subroutine kmeans.m to implement the k-means algorithm. (Note that, as recommended, we use findnn.m and lpnorm.m within the k-means implementation to allow flexible...

Heusler materials have attracted a large amount of attention in the development of spintronic technologies. In this issue, Wang et al. [IUCrJ (2017), 4, 758-768] show how strain can be used to tune the band structure of these materials.

We assessed the utility of fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) in the screening of clone libraries of (meta)genomic or environmental DNA for the presence and expression of bacterial ribosomal RNA (rRNA) genes. To establish proof-of-principle, we constructed a fosmid-based library in Escherichia coli of large-sized genomic DNA fragments of the mycophagous soil bacterium Collimonas fungivora...