Personalized identification of abdominal wall hernia meshes on computed tomography

An abdominal wall hernia is a protrusion of the intestine through an opening or area of weakness in the abdominal wall. Correct pre-operative identification of abdominal wall hernia meshes could help surgeons adjust the surgical plan to meet the expected difficulty and morbidity of operating through or removing the previous mesh. First, we present herein for the first time the application of image analysis for automated identification of hernia meshes. Second, we discuss the novel development of a new entropy-based image texture feature using geostatistics and indicator kriging. Third, we seek to enhance the hernia mesh identification by combining the new texture feature with the gray-level co-occurrence matrix feature of the image. The two features can characterize complementary information of anatomic details of the abdominal hernia wall and its mesh on computed tomography. Experimental results have demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed study. The new computational tool has potential for personalized mesh identification which can assist surgeons in the diagnosis and repair of complex abdominal wall hernias.     

Studies of the electrodeposition of palladium from baths based on [Pd(NH3)2X2] salts. I. [Pd(NH3)2Cl2] baths

Spectroscopic techniques are used to confirm the chemistry of solutions of [Pd(NH₃)₂Cl₂] in aqueous NH₄Cl at various pH. In addition, potential sweep and step methods at rotating and stationary disc electrodes (both vitreous carbon and freshly plated palladium) are used to investigate palladium deposition from a standard electroplating bath, [Pd(NH₃)₂Cl₂] in NH₄Cl/NH₃ (pH 8.9). The relative importance of oxygen reduction, hydrogen absorption and hydrogen evolution as competing cathode reactions under various conditions is defined and the advantage of strong convection for high rate plating is demonstrated.     

Al ionic radius influence on molecular dynamics simulations ofγ-Al2O3

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of-Al₂O₃, using a pairwise additive interaction potential of Pauling's type with four different radii for aluminum atoms, were analysed in order to determine the influence of the radius on the modification of coordination numbers of A1 relative to the ideal structure, at two different temperatures of 300 and 1500 K. It is found that the best choice is the radius of penta-coordinated aluminum, reproducing structural and vibrational properties of the compound in excellent agreement with experimentally observed properties.     

Random Forests with ensemble of feature spaces

Random Forests receive much attention from researchers because of their excellent performance. As Breiman suggested, the performance of Random Forests depends on the strength of the weak learners in the forests and the diversity among them. However, in the literature, many researchers only considered pre-processing of the data or post-processing of the Random Forests models. In this paper, we propose a new method to increase the diversity of each tree in the forests and thereby improve the overall accuracy. During the training process of each individual tree in the forest, different rotation spaces are concatenated into a higher space at the root node. Then the best split is exhaustively searched within this higher space. The location where the best split lies decides which rotation method to be used for all subsequent nodes. The performance of the proposed method here is evaluated on 42 benchmark data sets from various research fields and compared with the standard Random Forests. The results show that the proposed method improves the performance of the Random Forests in most cases.     

Large-scale SRAM-based IP lookup architectures using compact trie search structures

SRAM-based pipelined architectures for high-speed IP lookup using Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) has recently attracted a great deal of attention from researchers. Due to the limited amount of on-chip memory and the number of I/O pins of FPGAs, compact data structures providing high memory efficiency are in great demand.     

Development of high-performance liquid chromatography criteria for determination of grades of commercial olive oils. Part I. The normal ranges for the triacylglycerols

Criteria for authentic olive oils were developed from isocratic high-performance liquid chromatography analyses of 99 olive oils from the major Mediterranean producers in the 1983–1986 crop years. Authentic olive oils include extra virgin, virgin and pure or refined oils, but exclude all reesterified and adulterated oils. The extra virgin through pure grades will have a combined area for the LOO (C_18:2C_18:1C_18:1), LOP (C_18:2C_18:1C_16:0), OOO (C_18:1C_18:1C_18:1), POO (C_16:0C_18:1C_18:1), POP (C_16:0C_18:1C_18:1), and SOO (C_18:0C_18:1C_18:1) peaks between 82.0 and 92.6% of the total area (L, linoleic; O, oleic; P, palmitic; S, stearic). Authentic oils will have ratios of LOO/LOP and OOO/POO that coincide with a line defined by OOO/POO=0.7844(LOO/LOP)+0.0968; correlation coefficient is 0.885. Authentic oils will not have a trilinolein (LLL) peak over 0.5% in area. Neither triolein (OOO) nor any other single peak suffices to characterize an olive oil sample as one of the authentic grades.     

丙碳脱碳溶剂的改进研究

介绍一种由丙碳、叔胺和少量活化剂构成的复合溶剂的开发，并详细地测定了不同压力和操作工况下，这种复合溶剂对ＣＯ２的吸收和解吸性能，以及溶剂的缓蚀性能和抗氧化性能．实验证明这种复合溶剂与纯丙碳相比，具有吸收容量大、速率快、脱碳净化度高、对设备无腐蚀等特点，对改进现行的丙碳脱碳工艺具有应用价值．     

Aromatization of n-butane over new LD-HBS catalysts. Effect of the gallium oxide support

It is shown that even pure quartz, other silicas or aluminas can enhance the aromatization activity of a ZSM-5 zeolite. Incorporation of gallium oxide onto these supports increases further the production of aromatics. The use of supported gallium oxide co-catalyst obtained by co-evaporation of a colloidal silica and a Ga salt has led to extremely high aromatization performance for the hybrid catalyst.     

Polymer electrolytes

Summary The room temperature conductivity of lithium salts dissolved in polyethylene oxide, proposed as polymer electrolytes, is shown to decrease drastically upon storage. The crystallization process, which is responsible for that ageing, can be blocked, if two further components are added : an elastomer copolymer butadiene-acrylonitrile and a macromer of polyoxyethylene. In addition, a crosslinking process must be carried out.     

网格环境下基于传输代价的副本优化策略*

在深入分析影响副本策略性能的各种因素的基础上,将多种因素和传输代价联系起来进行建模,提出一种副本优化策略。优化策略基于传输代价,综合考虑文件访问次数、大小、存在时间等多种因素,并充分利用文件访问次数的集合特征,提供了一个动态、全局的副本管理方法。在网格仿真器OptorSim中对基于传输代价的优化策略进行了实现和评估分析。实验分析证明,优化后的副本策略较现有策略有明显优势。