BACKGROUND The cytopathic effects of cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection have been well described since the virus was first reported; however, the morphology of CMV infection has not been clearly studied. We examined the difference in detailed cytologic findings in bronchial washing cytology between liquid-based and conventionally prepared smears. METHODS Bronchial washing cytology was processed ...

Elliptical scatterers possess the properties of anisotropy and multiple degrees of freedom. With the plane wave expansion method, the slow light effect with high ng and low dispersion can be achieved by optimizing the structure parameters of photonic crystal waveguide with line defect, including changing the length of major axis or minor axis, and rotating scatterers relative to the direction o...

In the field of offshore renewable energy, impermeable plates are used as underwater lenses to amplify wave amplitude, and perforated can harness energy a power takeoff device. Within framework linear potential-flow theory, water scattering by horizontal is investigated in present study, both circular elliptical considered. The hypersingular integral equation constructed model interaction betwe...

In this research, the behavior and characteristics of the wake of flow in an elliptic cylinder with zero angle of attack in the presence of a tripping wire were investigated experimentally. For this purpose, the used an Aluminum cylinder with an elliptical cross section of the major and minor axis of 42.4 mm and 21.2 mm, respectively, and of the height of 390 mm. The cylinder model was examined...

As a new member of concrete-filled steel tube (CFT) structural families, elliptical tubes (CFETs) have great potential to be used as piers and columns in bridges airport terminals because its low flow resistance coefficient reasonable distribution major–minor axis. Hence, the main objective this paper presents an experimental investigation on seismic behavior terminal stirrup-confined (TS-CFET)...

Left atrial dimensions were measured using cross sectional echocardiography in 37 patients with mitral valve disease and 30 normal subjects of similar ages. The anteroposterior (AP), superior-inferior (SI), and medial-lateral (ML) left atrial dimensions were determined at the end of ventricular systole using parasternal long and short axis and apical four chamber views (for SIa and MLa). To ass...

ABSTRACT In order to explore how the early internal rotational properties of star clusters are affected by external potential their host galaxies, we have run a suite N-body simulations following dynamical evolution and violent relaxation rotating embedded in tidal field. Our study focuses on models for which cluster’s rotation axis has generic orientation relative torque The interaction betwee...

BACKGROUND Analysis of right ventricular adaptation to tricuspid regurgitation was studied in 10 heart transplant recipients following inadvertent endomyocardial biopsy disruption of the tricuspid apparatus. METHODS AND RESULTS Echocardiography demonstrated progressive diastolic right ventricular cavity enlargement (19.5+/-5.0 to 30.3+/-5.4 cm(2), P<0.0002), with disproportionate elongation a...

OBJECTIVE To assess how early diastolic transmitral flow is suppressed in a group of patients in whom effective ventricular filling occurred exclusively with atrial systole. DESIGN Prospective examination of the left ventricular transverse and longitudinal axes and transmitral Doppler flow. SETTING A tertiary referral centre for cardiac diseases. SUBJECTS 20 patients (mean (SD) age 65 (10...