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Elimination of motion, pulsatile flow and cross-talk artifacts using blade sequences in lumbar spine MR imaging
(2013)
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the ability of T2 turbo spin echo (TSE) axial and sagittal BLADE sequences in reducing or even eliminating motion, pulsatile flow and cross-talk artifacts in lumbar spine MRI ...
Predictive and prognostic value of LPS-stimulated cytokine secretion in metastatic non-small cell lung cancer
(2013)
Cancer patients usually develop malnutrition which may alter their innate immune system integrity. The aim of this study was to investigate the clinical relevance of chemokine response after lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-stimulation ...
Indigenous and spoilage microbiota of farmed sea bream stored in ice identified by phenotypic and 16S rRNA gene analysis
(2013)
Investigation of the initial and spoilage microbial diversity of iced stored sea bream was carried out. Culture dependent methods were used for bacterial enumeration and phenotypic identification of bacterial isolates, ...
The effects of terrorism and war on the oil price-stock index relationship
(2013)
The effects war and terrorism have on the covariance between oil prices and the indices of four major stock markets - the American S&P500, the European DAX, CAC40 and FTSE100 - using non-linear BEKK-GARCH type models are ...
Studies on the Essential Intramolecular Interaction Between the A1 and A2 Domains of von Willebrand Factor
(2013)
Haemostasis depends on the balanced participation of von Willebrand factor (vWF), a large multimeric and multidomain glycoprotein with essential role during the initial steps of blood clotting. Mature vWF circulates in ...
Harmful and parasitic unicellular eukaryotes persist in a shallow lake under reconstruction (L. Karla, Greece)
(2013)
The reconstructed Lake Karla, Greece, has been undergoing its water-filling period since November 2009. In this paper, we aimed at investigating whether the unicellular eukaryotes, including the toxic/parasitic ones, that ...
Lithotrites and Postoperative Fever: Does Lithotrite Type Matter? Results from the Clinical Research Office of the Endourological Society Percutaneous Nephrolithotomy Global Study
(2013)
Objective: To compare the risks of fever from different lithotrites after percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PNL). Materials and Methods: The Clinical Research Office of the Endourological Society (CROES) PNL database is a ...
Transition of an electromagnetically driven liquid metal flow from laminar to turbulent in a toroidal square duct
(2013)
The electromagnetically driven liquid metal flow in a toroidal duct of a square cross-section is studied numerically searching for the critical Reynolds (Re) and Hartmann (Ha) numbers where transition occurs. Results are ...
On minimizing the resource consumption of cloud applications using process migrations
(2013)
According to the pay-per-use model adopted in clouds, the more resources an application running in a cloud computing environment consumes, the greater the amount of money the owner of the corresponding application will be ...