Effects of a novel ultrasound contrast agent with long persistence on right ventricular pressure: Comparison with SonoVue

This work investigated the effect of infusion of a self-made ultrasound contrast agent with long persistence (named ZHIFUXIAN) on rat right ventricular pressure and made a preliminary evaluation on the relative safety of the novel microbubbles. Normal saline, SonoVue and ZHIFUXIAN were injected through caudal vein at the total volume of 0.5 ml for each injection. The right ventricular systolic pressure (RVSP) and end-diastolic pressure (RVEDP) were monitored and the changes of the pressure were compared with baseline readings. RVSP increased when saline, SonoVue or ZHIFUXIAN were injected, the greatest change being after SonoVue (about 2 mm Hg), but there was no statistical significance compared with baseline (P > 0.05). There was no significant difference in RVSP between saline, SonoVue and ZHIFUXIAN at any time point. Also, there was no significant difference in RVEDP between groups at each time point and between different time points in each group. The results indicate that the self-made microbubbles effect on right ventricular hemodynamics is equivalent to that of normal saline at the same volume needed for effective enhanced imaging, demonstrating that it does not produce changes in right ventricular blood pressure under the study conditions. Pathological examination also showed it had no obvious influence on lung, liver and kidney.     

Restrictions of an invertible chaotic operator to its invariant subspaces

Let M$M$ be a closed subspace of a separable, infinite dimensional Hilbert space H$H$ with dim(H/M)=∞$dim(H/M)=\infty$. We show that a bounded linear operator A:M→M$A:M\to M$ has an invertible chaotic extension T:H→H$T:H\to H$ if and only if A$A$ is bounded below. Motivated by our result, we further show that A:M→M$A:M\to M$ has a chaotic Fredholm extension T:H→H$T:H\to H$ if and only if A$A$ is left semi-Fredholm.     

电视摄象机测量误差探讨

本文简述了用电视摄象机进行工业尺寸测量的微分法与拟合法的基本原理,同时详细的讨论了各自所能达到的精度极限。本文用实验验证了理论计算的结果,最后对二维工件测量时,如何根据工件的不同形状与位置以及光学系统的特点,提出了在测量时工件的放置应该注意的问题以及对工件拐角处如何进行处理的方法。     

Lorenz Curve for Truncated and Censored Data

In this paper, we consider a nonparametric estimator of the Lorenz curve and Gini index when the data are subjected to random left truncation and right censorship. Strong Gaussian approximations for the associated Lorenz process are established under appropriate assumptions. A law of the iterated logarithm for the Lorenz curve is also derived. Lastly, we obtain a central limit theorem for the corresponding Gini index.     

Experimental evaluation of dual acceptance window weighting function for right coronary MR angiography at 3.0T

To shorten scanning time and increase the feasibility of experimental results, we performed right coronary artery magnetic resonance angiography (CMRA) at 3.0 T using dual acceptance window weighting function in 25 normal subjects. We examined these subjects using conventional navigator with fixed gating window and 6 dual acceptance window weighted gating (DAWG) sequences with different central weighted ratio (CWR). Compared with the conventional navigator sequence, DAWG sequences with CWRs of 20% and 25% increased the scanning efficiency by 30% and 26% respectively (P<.05), while maintaining good image quality; further the corresponding scanning time decreased from 2.12–1.64 and 1.69 min, respectively (P<.05). However, CWRs less than 15% caused image degradation to some extent. The coronary artery lengths and diameters did not show statistically significant differences between the two techniques (P>.05). Briefly, to avoid the problems caused by low navigator efficiency and to maintain comparable image quality, the weighted gating parameters of 3 mm width central acceptance window and 15 mm width outer acceptance window with CWR between 20% and 25% are recommended for right CMRA at 3 T.     

Positive Solutions for Semipositone ( p,n − p ) Right Focal Boundary Value Problems

We consider the ( p , n m p ) right focal boundary value problem: $${\matrix{{(- 1)^{n - p} u^{(n)} \! = \lambda \;f(t, u), } \hfill & \ {{\rm for }\ 0 \lt t \lt 1, } \hfill \cr \quad \quad \,{u^{(i)} (0) = 0, } \hfill & {0 \le i \le p - 1, } \hfill \cr \quad \quad \,{u^{(i)} (1) = 0, } \hfill & {p \le i \le n - 1, } \hfill \cr}} $$ where 1 h p h n m 1 is fixed and u > 0. Using a fixed point theorem for operators on a cone, we develop criteria for the existence of positive solutions of the boundary value problem for u on a suitable interval.     

Ideal-Symmetric and Semiprime Rings

Lambek extended the usual commutative ideal theory to ideals in noncommutative rings, calling an ideal A of a ring R symmetric if rst ∈ A implies rts ∈ A for r, s, t ∈ R. R is usually called symmetric if 0 is a symmetric ideal. This naturally gives rise to extending the study of symmetric ring property to the lattice of ideals. In the process, we introduce the concept of an ideal-symmetric ring. We first characterize the class of ideal-symmetric rings and show that this ideal-symmetric property is Morita invariant. We provide a method of constructing an ideal-symmetric ring (but not semiprime) from any given semiprime ring, noting that semiprime rings are ideal-symmetric. We investigate the structure of minimal ideal-symmetric rings completely, finding two kinds of basic forms of finite ideal-symmetric rings. It is also shown that the ideal-symmetric property can go up to right quotient rings in relation with regular elements. The polynomial ring R[x] over an ideal-symmetric ring R need not be ideal-symmetric, but it is shown that the factor ring R[x]/xⁿR[x] is ideal-symmetric over a semiprime ring R.     

Self-Orthogonal Modules of Finite Projective Dimension

Let R be a ring and _R ω a self-orthogonal module. We introduce the notion of the right orthogonal dimension (relative to _R ω) of modules. We give a criterion for computing this relative right orthogonal dimension of modules. For a left coherent and semilocal ring R and a finitely presented self-orthogonal module _R ω, we show that the projective dimension of _R ω and the right orthogonal dimension (relative to _R ω) of R/J are identical, where J is the Jacobson radical of R. As a consequence, we get that _R ω has finite projective dimension if and only if every left (finitely presented) R-module has finite right orthogonal dimension (relative to _R ω). If ω is a tilting module, we then prove that a left R-module has finite right orthogonal dimension (relative to _R ω) if and only if it has a special ω^⊥-preenvelope.     

Principally Quasi-Baer Skew Power Series Rings

Let α be an endomorphism of R which is not assumed to be surjective and R be α-compatible. It is shown that the skew power series ring R[[x; α]] is right p.q.-Baer if and only if the skew Laurent series ring R[[x, x ^?1; α]] is right p.q.-Baer if and only if R is right p.q.-Baer and every countable subset of right semicentral idempotents has a generalized countable join. Examples to illustrate and delimit the theory are provided.