BACKGROUND: The prevalence and clinical relevance of Buried Barrett’s (BB) epithelium after radiofrequency ablation (RFA) in Barrett’s esophagus (BE) is questioned. Recent studies using small optical coherence tomography (OCT) catheters for scanning underneath the neosquamous epithelium demonstrated a high prevalence of tissue structures that might correspond to BB. Histological correlation, ho...

BACKGROUND: The prevalence and clinical relevance of Buried Barrett’s (BB) epithelium after radiofrequency ablation (RFA) in Barrett’s esophagus (BE) is questioned. Recent studies using small optical coherence tomography (OCT) catheters for scanning underneath the neosquamous epithelium demonstrated a high prevalence of tissue structures that might correspond to BB. Histological correlation, ho...

BACKGROUND: The prevalence and clinical relevance of Buried Barrett’s (BB) epithelium after radiofrequency ablation (RFA) in Barrett’s esophagus (BE) is questioned. Recent studies using small optical coherence tomography (OCT) catheters for scanning underneath the neosquamous epithelium demonstrated a high prevalence of tissue structures that might correspond to BB. Histological correlation, ho...

The knowledge of the phase equilibrium refrigerant mixtures is crucial for optimization production processes molecules, and design energetic systems (heat pumps, Organic Rankine Cycles, …). In this work, different predictive thermodynamic models (COSMO-RS COSMO-SAC-dsp) have been used to determine behavior refrigerants involving alkanes, fluorinated chlorinated compounds. COSMO-RS model leads r...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS The prevalence and clinical relevance of buried Barrett's glands (BB) after radiofrequency ablation (RFA) in Barrett's esophagus (BE) are debated. Recent optical coherence tomography studies demonstrated a high prevalence of BBs. Direct histological correlation, however, has been lacking. Volumetric laser endomicroscopy (VLE) is a second-generation optical coherence tomograp...

The immense pressure to decarbonise the maritime industry has led Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) uptake as a marine fuel and LNG fuelled ships design. As is stored in cryogenic conditions, heat ingress from ambient causes boil-off gas (BOG) production, which, if not controlled, results tank overpressure with implications on storage system safe operation. This study aims at investigating an behavio...

The associative property of artificial neural networks (ANNs) and their inherent ability to “learn” and “recognize” highly non-linear and complex relationships finds them ideally suited to a wide range of applications in chemical engineering. The present paper deals with the potential applications of ANNs in thermodynamics – particularly, the prediction/ estimation of vapour-liquid equilibrium ...

liquid-liquid equilibria for the (water + lactic acid + benzyl alcohol or p-xylene) ternary systems were investigated at atmospheric pressure and in the temperature range from 298.15-318.15 k. the studied systems exhibit two types of liquid-liquid equilibrium (lle) behavior. the system consisting of benzyl alcohol displays type-1 lle behavior, while a type-2 behavior is exhibited by the other s...