Purpose To evaluate femoral arteries (FAs) in infants in the context of catheter angiography with B-mode (BMS) and B-flow sonography (BFS) and to compare both methods for vessel delineation and reliability of vessel diameter measurements. Methods 21 consecutive infants who underwent ultrasound for the evaluation of FAs before or after cardiac catheterization were retrospectively included in thi...

OBJECTIVES This study aimed to evaluate the effect of different ceramic surface treatments after machining grinding on the biaxial flexural strength (BFS) of machinable dental ceramics with different crystalline phases. MATERIALS AND METHODS Disk-shape specimens (10mm in diameter and 1.3mm in thickness) of machinable ceramic cores (two silica-based and one zirconia-based ceramics) were prepar...

Bugs often lurk in code that is infrequently executed (i.e., cold code), so testing and debugging requires tracing such code. Alas, the location of cold code is generally not known a priori and, by definition, cold code is elusive during execution. Thus, programs either incur unnecessary runtime overhead to “catch” cold code, or they must employ sampling, in which case many executions are requi...

PURPOSE To describe the effect of the corneal asphericity and toricity on the map patterns and best fit sphere (BFS) characteristics in elevation topography. METHODS The corneal surface was modeled as a biconic surface of principal radii and asphericity values of r1 and r2 and Q1 and Q2, respectively. The apex of the biconic surface corresponded to the origin of a polar coordinates system. Mi...

Existing test compilers target stuck-at faults. Recent experimental evidence suggest targetting bridging faults (BF) because they model between 40-50% of physical defects. For BFs, one suggestion has been to extract a small set of BFs using \layout analysis". We argue that this is not a feasible option for test compilers thereby making a case for \layout independent analysis" of BFs. Opting for...

Touch MEdical MEdia 53 Fasciculation, which is observed in various peripheral motor neuron disorders, is most frequently found in nonprogressive benign fasciculation syndrome (BFS). Patients with BFS never exhibit muscle atrophy or pathologic weakness and not all such patients visit hospitals; therefore, the prevalence and characteristics of BFS still need to be established. However, among the ...

Research on Phosphorus (P) removal capacity by blast furnace slags (BFS) has been undertaken in Sweden for the last decade. Both laboratory experiments and field trials have been carried out. While laboratory investigations revealed that BFS has a high P-sorption capacity (95–100%), P removal in field trials was much lower, ranging from 40 to 53%. In addition, a number of problems have been obs...

An interleukin 2-independent murine T cell line (BFS) was isolated that produced immune interferon after stimulation with phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate. The BFS cell line did not produce detectable levels of interleukin 1, interleukin 2, B cell growth factor, macrophage-granulocyte colony-stimulating factor, macrophage-activating factor, or T cell replacing factor. Maximal interferon was indu...