Cover & Contents by Volume 16 No.1 Januari 2017

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Prospects for creating modern piston compressors with increased performance by S. S. Busarov, K. A. Bakulin, R. E. Kobylskiy, I. S. Busarov

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Growth and Flowering Responses of Cut Chrysanthemum Grown under Restricted Root Volume to Irrigation Frequency by Viyachai Taweesak, Thohirah Lee Abdullah, Siti Aishah Hassan, Nitty Hirawaty Kamarulzaman, Wan Abdullah Wan Yusoff

“…Influences of irrigation frequency on the growth and flowering of chrysanthemum grown under restricted root volume were tested. Chrysanthemum cuttings (Chrysanthemum morifolium “Reagan White”) were grown in seedling tray which contained coconut peat in volumes of 73 and 140 cm3. …”
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Deposition Characteristics of Air-Assisted Sprayer Based on Canopy Volume and Leaf Area of Orchard Trees by Chenchen Gu, Jiahui Sun, Si Li, Shuo Yang, Wei Zou, Changyuan Zhai

Subjects: “…canopy volume…”
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Editorial: Acute leukemias: molecular characterization, leukemia-initiating cells, and influence of the microenvironment, volume II by Lokman Varisli, Garrett M. Dancik, John A. Copland, Spiros A. Vlahopoulos

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Experimental estimation of the heat energy dissipated in a volume surrounding the tip of a fatigue crack by G. Meneghetti, M. Ricotta

“…The definition of the structural volume in a fatigue sense is beyond the scope of the present paper. …”
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Utilization of Mean Platelet Volume for Predicting Ischemic Heart Disease in Diabetic and Non-Diabetic Patients by Maryam Arefnia, Toktam Hosseinnezhad Ariani, Mohammadali Ghodsirad, Toktam Alirezaei, Elinaz Hosseinzadeh, Mahesti Amoui, Elaheh Pirayesh, Ghazaal Norouzi

Subjects: “…mean platelet volume…”
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Anterior pituitary gland volume mediates associations between adrenarche and changes in transdiagnostic symptoms in youth by Giorgia Picci, Nathan M. Petro, Chloe C. Casagrande, Lauren R. Ott, Hannah J. Okelberry, Danielle L. Rice, Anna T. Coutant, Grace C. Ende, Erica L. Steiner, Yu-Ping Wang, Julia M. Stephen, Vince D. Calhoun, Tony W. Wilson

“…Although literature has largely focused on examining whole PG volume, recent findings have demonstrated associations among pubertal hormone levels, including dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA), PG subregions, and mental health symptoms during adolescence. …”
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Investigating the potential of diffusion tensor atlases to generate anisotropic clinical tumor volumes in glioblastoma patients by Kim Hochreuter, Gregory Buti, Ali Ajdari, Christopher P. Bridge, Gregory C. Sharp, Sune Jespersen, Slávka Lukacova, Thomas Bortfeld, Jesper F. Kallehauge

“…Background and purpose:: Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) has been proposed to guide the anisotropic expansion from gross tumor volume to clinical target volume (CTV), aiming to integrate known tumor spread patterns into the CTV. …”
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Factors Indicating the Accuracy of Fetal Weight Estimation in Preterm Newborns with Normal Amniotic Fluid Volume by Onur Guralp, Nevin Tuten, Abdullah Tuten, Altay Gezer

“… OBJECTIVE: To determine the factors indicating the accuracy of fetal weight estimation in the last prenatal ultrasonography before delivery in preterm newborns with normal amniotic fluid volume. STUDY DESIGN: Three hundred and seventy-one singleton pregnancies with normal amniotic fluid volume and delivered at between 24+0 and 37+0 gestational weeks were evaluated in a retrospective study. …”
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A Volume Comparison Estimate with Radially Symmetric Ricci Curvature Lower Bound and Its Applications by Zisheng Hu, Yadong Jin, Senlin Xu

“…We extend the classical Bishop-Gromov volume comparison from constant Ricci curvature lower bound to radially symmetric Ricci curvature lower bound, and apply it to investigate the volume growth, total Betti number, and finite topological type of manifolds with nonasymptotically almost nonnegative Ricci curvature.…”
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Effect of Dead Volume on the Efficiency and the Cost to Deliver Medications in Cystic Fibrosis with Four Disposable Nebulizers by Sharon L Ho, Allan L Coates

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12 Predicting pathological tumor volume in prostate cancer lesions using micro-ultrasound and MRI by A. Rakauskas, A. Richmond, S. La Rosa, N. Vietti-Violi, M. Valerio

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Expansion of supraglacial lake area, volume and extent on the Greenland ice sheet from 1985 to 2023 by Yubin Fan, Chang-Qing Ke, Lanhua Luo, Xiaoyi Shen, Stephen John Livingstone, James M. Lea

“…A significant positive correlation between lake volume and area is used to up-scale the approach to the entire time period, indicating a lake volume increase of 221.9 ± 63.6 × 106 m3 a−1. …”
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Hospital Surgical Volume, Utilization, Costs and Outcomes of Retroperitoneal Lymph Node Dissection for Testis Cancer by Hua-yin Yu, Nathanael D. Hevelone, Sunil Patel, Stuart R. Lipsitz, Jim C. Hu

“…We characterized population-based utilization, costs, and outcomes and assessed whether higher volume affects outcomes. Methods and Materials. Using the US Nationwide Inpatient Sample from 2001–2008, we identified 993 RPLND and used propensity score methods to assess utilization, costs, and inpatient outcomes based on hospital surgical volume. …”
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Effect of yoga exercises on lung volumes, vital capacity, and attention span in school going students by Reema Joshi, Manisha Rathi, Komal Preet Kaur

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Cs+ Adsorption and Pyrolytic Volume Reduction Performance of KR-01 Mixed Ion Exchange Resin by Weilei GUO, Hongyi GAO, Jinchi MAO, Renliang YUE, Haidi LIU

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3D-CT-derived lung volumes and mortality risk in patients with fibrotic hypersensitivity pneumonitis by Shusuke Yazawa, Yuzo Suzuki, Yuko Tanaka, Koshi Yokomura, Masato Kono, Dai Hashimoto, Atsuki Fukada, Yusuke Inoue, Hideki Yasui, Hironao Hozumi, Masato Karayama, Kazuki Furuhashi, Noriyuki Enomoto, Tomoyuki Fujisawa, Naoki Inui, Takafumi Suda

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The Adrenal Gland Volume Measurements in Manifestation of the Metabolic Status in Type-2 Diabetes Mellitus Patients by Ismail Serifoglu, Ibrahim Ilker Oz, Muammer Bilici

“…The aim of our study was to investigate the differences in adrenal gland volume between nondiabetic controls and Type-2 diabetic patients and to examine the influence of glycemic control in diabetes mellitus on adrenal gland volume. …”
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An Optical Model for Translucent Volume Rendering and Its Implementation Using the Preintegrated Shear-Warp Algorithm by Bin Li, Lianfang Tian, Shanxing Ou

“…In order to efficiently and effectively reconstruct 3D medical images and clearly display the detailed information of inner structures and the inner hidden interfaces between different media, an Improved Volume Rendering Optical Model (IVROM) for medical translucent volume rendering and its implementation using the preintegrated Shear-Warp Volume Rendering algorithm are proposed in this paper, which can be readily applied on a commodity PC. …”
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