Patients with brain tumors may have cognitive dysfunctions including memory deterioration, such as working memory, that affect quality of life. This study was to explore the presence of defects in working memory and the identification of facial expressions in patients with left frontal glioma. This case-control study recruited 11 matched pairs of patients and healthy control subjects (mean age ± standard deviation, 37.00 ± 10.96 years vs 36.73 ± 11.20 years; 7 male and 4 female) from March through December 2011. The psychological tests contained tests that estimate verbal/visual-spatial working memory, executive function, and the identification of facial expressions. According to the paired samples analysis, there were no differences in the anxiety and depression scores or in the intelligence quotients between the 2 groups (P > .05). All indices of the Digit Span Test were significantly worse in patients than in control subjects (P < .05), but the Tapping Test scores did not differ between patient and control groups. Of all 7 Wisconsin Card Sorting Test (WCST) indexes, only the Preservative Response was significantly different between patients and control subjects (P < .05). Patients were significantly less accurate in detecting angry facial expressions than were control subjects (30.3% vs 57.6%; P < .05) but showed no deficits in the identification of other expressions. The backward indexes of the Digit Span Test were associated with emotion scores and tumor size and grade (P < .05). Patients with left frontal glioma had deficits in verbal working memory and the ability to identify anger. These may have resulted from damage to functional frontal cortex regions, in which roles in these 2 capabilities have not been confirmed. However, verbal working memory performance might be affected by emotional and tumor-related factors.
This paper presents a precise angular algorithm for the imaging bionic polarization navigation sensor. The algorithm is targeted for a imaging sensor with bilayer nanowire polarizer which is multi-orientated of 0°, 60°, 120° and 90°, 150°, 210°. The algorithm is considered to extract intensity values of pixels in homogeneous regions, eliminate noise contained in image and compensate errors occured in the fabricaiton process of nanowire polarization filters. And the occlusion problem has to be compensated by neighboring pixels. The algorithm considered in this paper is able to solve overdetermined system of linear equations, and give a set of least square solutions of the Stokes parameters and the angle of polarization as output. The performance of the algorithm along with the experimental results of the angle measurement are also presented. Based on the comparison results, the algorithm achieves a best performance for the angle of polarization.
Multi–walled carbon nanotubes (MWNTs)/polyethylene (PE) nanocomposites were prepared via in situ polymerization with MWNTs supported Cp2ZrCl2 catalyst. XPS and FESEM results imply that Cp2ZrCl2 catalyst has been immobilized in the surface of the MWNTs supports by a MAO bridge. The efficient dispersion of MWNTs in PE matrix and the strong compressive forces associated with PE on the MWNTs were demonstrated by TEM, FESEM and Raman spectra. With introducing 0.2 wt.-% MWNTs, both the tensile strength and elongation of MWNTs/PE nanocomposite increased by factors of 1.6 (from 29 MPa to 45 MPa) and 1.5 (from 909% to 1360%) comparing with the pure PE, respectively. Morphology observation of fractured surface, in accordance with the Raman results, revealed that the PE firmly adheres to the nanotubes, which is responsible for the significant improvement of the mechanical properties of nanocomposites. Thermal stabilities of the nanocomposites were significantly improved. In addition, the MWNTs/PE nanocomposites show very high UV shielding properties, which could increase photooxidative stability of the PE.
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