BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to evaluate tongue movements during swallowing in healthy adults using the B+M-mode ultrasonography, and to determine a common feature in the M-mode traces for quantitative measurement and individual comparison of tongue movements. MATERIAL AND METHODS Ninety healthy subjects were divided into 3 groups according to age (20-39, 40-59, and 60-80 years). ...

BACKGROUND M-mode is the echocardiographic gold standard to diagnose dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM) in dogs, whereas Simpson's method of discs (SMOD) is the preferred method to detect echocardiographic evidence of disease in humans. OBJECTIVES To establish reference values for SMOD and to compare those with M-mode measurements. ANIMALS Nine hundred and sixty-nine examinations of 471 Doberman ...

The processing of cheese whey pre-concentrated by reverse osmosis is carried out through ultrafiltration in diafiltration mode to produce whey protein concentrates with lower lactose content to be incorporated in beverages. The initial cheese whey protein and lactose contents are 2.13g/100g and 13.22g/100g, respectively.The commercial membranes, GR95PP, supplied by Alfa Laval, Denmark, we...

ultrasoundelastographyisanon-invasivemethodwhichimagestheelasticityofsoft-tissues. tomakeanimage, preandafterasmallcompression, ultrasoundradio frequency(rf)signalsareacquiredandthetimedelaysbetweenthemareestimated. thefirstdifferentiationofdisplacementestimationsiscalledelastogram. inthisstudy, wearegoingtomakeanelastogramusingtheprocessingmethodnamed empirical mode decomposition (emd). emdisa...

To unlock the cost benefits of space division multiplexing transmission systems, higher spatial multiplicity is required. Here, we investigate a potential route to increasing the number of spatial mode channels within a single core few-mode fiber. Key for longer transmission distances and low computational complexity is the fabrication of fibers with low differential mode group delays. As such ...

A combination of M mode and Doppler echocardiography was used to study patients with mitral disc valve prostheses. The probe used in these investigations consisted of a circular Doppler crystal mounted around the M mode crystal in the same plane. Because of the strong echoes produced by the prosthesis the transducer (probe) could be angled for optimum Doppler signals without losing the M mode e...

Cellular Digital Packet Data (CDPD) provides a sleep mode operation for power conservation in mobile end systems (M-ESs). We perform a theoretical analysis of sleep mode operation for CDPD. Sleep mode operation is modeled as an queueing system with an attention span and multiple vacations with an exceptional first vacation. The steady state probabilities of the queueing system, the frame loss p...