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... time-point for the implantation of mechanical circulatory support Finding the optimal time also means that univentricular (usually left ventricular) support New Aspects of Ventricular Assist Devices ... (300 days or more on the average) before a suitable donor heart becomes available The medical community has placed increased emphasis on the use of Left Ventricular Assist Devices or LVADs that ... Patients Supported by Left Ventricular Assist Device 105 Tomoko S Kato, Kazuo Komamura, Ikutaro Nakajima, Ayako Takahashi, Noboru Oda and Masafumi Kitakaze Chapter Ventricular Assist Devices for Pediatric...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 05:20

... Bridge to transplantation Thoratec Paracorporeal ventricular Assist Device (PVAD) Thoratec Implantable Ventricular Assist Device (IVAD) Bridge to recovery Use RVAD LVAD BiVAD Abiomed AB 5000 Advantages ... from the United Network for Organ Sharing in a seven-year period They concluded that the use of implantable left ventricle assist devices (both intracorporeal and extracorporeal devices) as bridges ... ventricular assist devices 7.1 Intermediate ventricle assist devices Fig ABIOMED BVS 5000 blood pump 15 Indications for Ventricle Assist Devices Intermediate term devices Indications Thoratec VAD Versions...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 06:20

... Belgium) for patients with a need for mechanical support in the acute phase of PPCM Mechanical support was defined as IABP, ECMO or LVAD We received local Ethical Committee Page of approval and informed ... ACE-inhibitors, angiotensin II receptor blockers and aldosterone antagonists during pregnancy; cf-LVAD, continuous-flow left ventricular device; ECMO, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation; IABP, intra aortic ... condition Right heart failure, defined as the postoperative need for temporary right ventricular mechanical or inotropic support for more than 14 days following implantation, was not noted although...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 07:21

... following either artificial or natural infection (0.87) Previous work also supports a positive correlation between responses to artificial and natural challenges, however, few estimates of the correlation ... 233 Natural or artificial infection with T circumcincta Table II Estimated genetic parameters for faecal egg counts measured after artificial challenges or natural infection Type of Information Model ... Figure Standard error of the estimated genetic correlation according to the real value of this parameter for the two designs considered (for a total of 200 animals measured for each trait), under...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 13:22

... AND, BUT, OR to connect sentences The expected answers of this part are or, but, or, and, or, but (or and), and, or, but (or and), and, or, and but, or, and Students make a total of 83 errors with ... coordinators AND, BUT, OR as cohesive devices which plays an important role in the making of discourse Until now, concerning English discourse, the use of coordinator AND, BUT, OR as cohesive devices ... theoretical framework for the identification of the errors that students made In addition, theories about the sources of errors will help explore what factors caused students' commitment of errors...

Ngày tải lên: 20/12/2013, 18:16

... Fritsch, E.F & Maniatis, T (1989) Molecular Cloning: a Laboratory Manual, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor, New York 33 Ewing, B., Hillier, L., Wendl, M & Green, P (1998) ... 9600 and after removal of unincorporated dye terminators by ®ltration through Sephadex G-50, the ¯uorescently labeled nested fragment sets were resolved by electrophoresis on an ABI 3700 Capillary ... a more detailed knowledge of the genomic organization of the mouse Adh gene complex This is an important prerequisite to understanding the regulatory strategy of this gene family In this report,...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 16:20

... atmosphere within the laboratory at BSI-RIKEN Therefore, my sincere gratitude goes to Professor Shun-Ichi Amari, the director, and Professor Masao Ito, the former director of BSI-RIKEN whose international ... STM/working memory module as illustrated in Fig 10.1, (or, in other words, the priority is given to some (i.e not all) of the marked kernel units in the entire memory space by the STM/working memory ... encouraged me in various ways for this monograph writing, Professor Hajime Asama, the University of Tokyo, Professor Michio Sugeno, the former Head of the Laboratory for Language-Based Intelligent...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 14:20

... symmetric orthogonality orthogonal orthogonal orthogonal orthogonal bi-orthogonal bi-orthogonal orthogonal orthogonal no no compact support yes yes yes yes yes yes no yes no no fast algorithm yes yes ... the work reported here, we improve the performance of ANNs by pre-processing the inputs using DWT decomposition and providing a more informative and efficient feature set to the network An important ... important such that the wider this support, the higher the computational power required for the wavelet transform The maximum number of vanishing moments is proportional to the size of the support...

Ngày tải lên: 28/04/2014, 10:01

... UK, LVADs provide an “off-the-shelf” solution for patients with end-stage ICM ineligible for transplant or for those wishing to avoid immunosuppression [10] Use of axialflow LVADs in large cohorts ... Margulies K, McRee S, Frazier OH, Torre-Amione G, LVAD Working Group: Cardiac improvement during mechanical circulatory support: a prospective multicenter study of the LVAD Working Group Circulation 2007, ... GP, Loebe M: Increased expression of stem cell factor and its receptor after left ventricular assist device support: A potential novel target for therapeutic interventions in heart failure J Heart...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 16:20

... reduce {113} The formation of different surface planes plays an important role for the subsequent fabrication of small quantum dots on the top of local substrates A stronger affinity for the nucleation ... islands Images from a single island (right panel in Fig for sample A) show two different clear Bragg spots for Si and GaAs, demonstrating the formation of single crystal GaAs islands The two small ... images obtained with diffraction vector [220] (left panel in Fig ´ for sample E) evidence Moire fringes The spacing between fringes gives a good estimation for distances between planes [220] in...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 08:20

... inferior temporal cortex; STS: superior temporal sulcus) a priori models that impose smoothness upon the set of possible solutions of the desired flow field in homogeneous regions [2, 9] or along ... right (V1: primary visual cortex; MT: medial temporal; MST: medial superior temporal (with v and d denoting the ventral and dorsal subdivisions, resp.); PFC: prefrontal cortex; V2: secondary visual ... at different scales or spatial resolutions Low-level cues for visual surface properties can be combined with representations at a more global scale that incorporates context information and knowledge...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 09:20

... are needed to be normally preprocessed using an appropriate transformation method It has been reported that the ANFIS systems trained on transformed data sets achieve better performance and faster ... perform computer simulations and /or experiments, using a designed ANFIS is much faster and easier than doing computer simulations and /or experiments since doing a corresponding experimental work ... The authors sincerely appreciate the staff of the Center for Computational Materials Science of the Institute for Materials Research (IMR), Tohoku University, for its continuous support of the...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 20:20

... wavefunction orbital in the double quantum dot 123 applications in optics, transport, or quantum information’’ Climente mentioned He continued saying that the tunneling rate, which is an important ... hole in an artificial molecule (solid line) Note the state reversal at d * 1.5 nm, implying a bonding-toantibonding ground state transition This never occurs for electrons in artificial or natural ... important parameter for the quantum computation and transport can now be flexibly tuned from large values down to zero using a magnetic field ‘‘This is a consequence of the spinor nature of holes’’...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 01:20

... the Micro and Nanotechnology Laboratory at UIUC and in 2003 was selected for a Motorola Center for Communications Fellowship through the Coordinated Science Laboratory at UIUC His research interests ... (ε) Algorithm 1: (Top) Definition of variables used (Bottom) MMSE algorithm in pseudocode A is the correlation factor between the template and data sets for the MMSE algorithm, ε is the error, while ... performance of the training algorithm A model was empirically developed for the MEMS HWA for this study Due to the visual form of the data, we speculated that a Gaussian mixture model might work...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 23:20

... networks Young normal 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 Old normal Old abnormal 28 Figure 4: Block diagram of the post-recording signal analysis Time (s) (b) Figure 3: Typical ECG and BCG records of a normal ... part of the data for training artificial neural networks (500 BCG cycles used for MLP nets and 300 BCG for RBF nets) and the rest of the data (2000 BCG cycles) for testing the performance of the ... increase if we use more than 300 BCG cycles for training the RBF net and more than 500 for the MLP net (overtraining problem) Classifying the BCG cycles correctly is very important for post processing...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 23:20

... sets (normal and faulty) for all three classifiers From examination of the data sets, no particular explanation for the difference in misclassification type (FNR or FA) for PNNs could be put forward ... 97.22%–100% for MLPs, 88.89%–100% for RBFs, and 94.44%–98.61% for PNNs For PNNs, the classification errors were as follows: 1.39%–4.17% FNR and 0%–1.39% FA 6.3 6.2.1 Effect of sensor location Table ... was 95.83%–100% for MLPs, 87.50%–100% for RBFs, and 100% for PNNs The classification error was of type FNR with MLPs and RBFs Features selected for different schemes are also shown for comparison...

Ngày tải lên: 23/06/2014, 01:20

... atmosphere within the laboratory at BSI-RIKEN Therefore, my sincere gratitude goes to Professor Shun-Ichi Amari, the director, and Professor Masao Ito, the former director of BSI-RIKEN whose international ... STM/working memory module as illustrated in Fig 10.1, (or, in other words, the priority is given to some (i.e not all) of the marked kernel units in the entire memory space by the STM/working memory ... encouraged me in various ways for this monograph writing, Professor Hajime Asama, the University of Tokyo, Professor Michio Sugeno, the former Head of the Laboratory for Language-Based Intelligent...

Ngày tải lên: 27/06/2014, 18:20

... Crespillo for her technical assistance We are also grateful to the Research Services of Málaga University for providing facilities at the Molecular Biology Laboratory This work was supported by ... became transparent The plugs could be stored on 0.5 M EDTA pH for more than months Just prior to use, the plugs were electrophoresed to remove broken, chloroplast and mitochondrial DNA in a 0.7% ... were used to electroporate 30 µL of E coli ElectroMax DH10B cells (Gibco-BRL, USA) using the Eppendorf cell-porator system and the following settings for a mm cuvette (BioRad, USA): 1800 V, 10...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 16:21

... ventricular assist devices (LVADs) offer effective therapy for severe heart failure (HF) as bridge to transplantation or destination therapy Rarely, the sustained unloading provided by the LVAD ... and PS have received speakers and /or consulting fees and /or research grants from Thoratec and HeartWare, manufacturers of assist devices Author contributions: Author contributions were as follows: ... recovery with a thoratec biventricular assist device for postpartum cardiomyopathy ASAIO J 56(5): p 479-80 Simon, M.A., et al., Myocardial recovery using ventricular assist devices: prevalence,...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:22

... femoral artery and advanced retrogradly into the left ventricle An electromagnetic motor draws blood from the inflow port in the left ventricle to the outflow port in the proximal ascending aorta ... of LVAD and CRT combined in cardiogenic shock has to our knowledge not been reported previously Consent Written informed consent was obtained from the patient for publication of this case report ... resynchronization on morbidity and mortality in heart failure N Engl J Med 2005, 352:1539-49 Keilegavlen et al Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery 2010, 5:54 http://www.cardiothoracicsurgery.org/content/5/1/54...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:22