modeling of whole heart electrophysiology and mechanics toward patient specific simulations

... would be lost with the onset of obesity and type diabetes Table Baseline characterization of male and female obese mice Values are expressed for 18–20-week-old male and female db ⁄ + versus db ... Switzerland) after a h fast All animal experiments were approved by the University of Cape Town’s Animal Research Ethics Committee, and the investigation conforms to the Guide for the Care and Use of ... addition of 300 lm ADP to the electrode chamber To test the ability of mitochondria to withstand oxidative stress, mm ADP was added after state respiration, and the chamber was closed and sealed...

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... Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research 2011 6:4 Authors’ contributions TD has contributed to conception and design of the study, acquisition of data, analysis and interpretation of data, and ... HM, and YM performed part of literature review KM and KK performed part of acquisition of data YI participated in design and coordination and helped to draft the manuscript All authors read and ... Range of curvature in scoliosis patients The upper and lower end vertebrae were examined in scoliosis patients The median of the upper end was at T5 and the lower end at T12 All were instances of...

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... Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research 2011 6:4 Authors’ contributions TD has contributed to conception and design of the study, acquisition of data, analysis and interpretation of data, and ... HM, and YM performed part of literature review KM and KK performed part of acquisition of data YI participated in design and coordination and helped to draft the manuscript All authors read and ... Range of curvature in scoliosis patients The upper and lower end vertebrae were examined in scoliosis patients The median of the upper end was at T5 and the lower end at T12 All were instances of...

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... packet to the destination and is often implemented using a timer The delay of utility-based routing is expected to be lower than that in OPPT and RAND routing Also, the number of packet forwarding ... values that work well for a large number of subject individuals and range of postures to be in between sec and 14 sec Figure shows the evolution of PLC βi, j (n) and HCQ ωi, j (n) with time The top ... link-specific and time-varying βi, j (n), on the other hand, is able to handle both situations well by mimicking the behavior of ω = 0.9 during the historically good-link situation and that of ω = 0.1...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 11:20

... channels c (n) and g (n) are flat with unity gain over the bandwidth of each bin, the shape of the cross-spectrum is determined solely by the frequency response of the analysis filters and Sss ( f ... integer, and let g (n) have a constant λ sample delay The delay difference between g (n) and c (n) is thus λ − The bandwidth of each bin is equal to fc = fs /K and so the magnitude of Sdk xk ... guidelines for the choice of K in a filterbank FDAF, where L = 1, and this is the focus of this paper PREVIOUS ANALYSES OF THE FREQUENCY DOMAIN DELAY COMPENSATION PROBLEM In 1981, Reed and Feintuch [8]...

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... rate of 24/ minute with a PEEP of 3.5 cmH2O was as effective at maintaining PO2 as a respiratory rate of 7/minute and a PEEP of 14 cmH2O In our HP/LP group, the respiratory rate was 20/ minute and ... manuscript drafting, data analysis and extensive editing GFN contributed to the design and development of the protocol, data analysis and interpretation, and writing of the manuscript Additional files ... 106 μm2 and was filmed throughout five complete tidal breaths Image analysis of alveoli We analyzed the alveolar mechanics by replaying the video frame-by-frame and capturing still images of individual...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 03:21

... size, loss of lipid vacuoles and enhanced production of TGF-β and other substances may be helpful The absence of reactivity of portal MF and HSC in the normal canine liver to synaptophysin and GFAP ... postmortal sampling and fixation, the age of the paraffin blocks, and age, sex and breed variation of the animals However, the used material reflects similar variability in intended patient populations ... the portal and interface MF and the HSC [5,6] If stromal environment may promote transition and differentiation of HSC towards stromal MF, this might have therapeutic implications in patients Although...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 13:20

... midazolam, propofol, and methohexitone on heart rate in rat isolated septic hearts All drugs except s(+)-ketamine, midazolam, propofol, and methohexitone on heart rate in rat isolated septic hearts etomidate ... 0.05 midazolam, propofol, and methohexitone vs etomidate and s(+)-ketamine; $P < 0.05 propofol vs midazolam and methohexitone Data are the means ± standard error of the mean Page of (page number ... different from control values of septic hearts Sham-operated hearts showed control values of etomidate, s(+)-ketamine, midazolam, propofol, and methohexitone in septic hearts were not statistically...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 19:20

... those most in demand are oil of roses, oil of sandal-wood, an essence from the blossom of a species of mimosa, essence of musk, and the oil of cloves The women have a peculiar method of scenting their ... did, and at the end of a couple of hours both the dandy and his pomade were exhausted The poor fellow had to return to his friends with the total loss of personal appearance and half a pound of ... the descent toward the river: the valley was a succession of gullies and ravines, of landslips and watercourses The entire hollow, of miles in width, had evidently been the work of the river...

Ngày tải lên: 15/02/2014, 09:20

... loss of tooth enamel, and abnormal soft tissue separation of two or three digits [24,25] Depending on the particular Cx43 mutation, a wide range of other abnormalities, including neurological and ... Tiwari-Woodruff PhD (Department of Neurology, UCLA School of Medicine) for the use of her microscope, Guido Faas PhD (Department of Neurology, UCLA School of Medicine) for performing all of the transepithelial ... observed [2637] As yet, there is no clear understanding of the relationship between genotype and phenotype, although functional evaluations of most of the mutations that have been studied have demonstrated...

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... times than all the lands of the Seine and the Rhone and the Loire, and richer many times than the land of spices to which the falls of Lachine, "the greatest and swiftest fall of water that any ... those midway of the valley it came out of the mystery of the Land of Frosts and passed silently on, or, in places, complainingly on, to the mystery of the Land of the Sun, into neither of which dared ... explorations of beaches and harbors and islands and rivers, including the future Massachusetts Bay and Plymouth, and the accurate mapping of all that coast now so familiar; there were the arrivals of the...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 13:20

... components of these child-patients and how to measure them, showing sensitivity to the continuous and rapid cognitive and emotional development of children, getting information from the patient and ... consisted of children with different severity of heart disease The ratio of children with severe to those with simple heart diseases Page of 12 corresponded to the distribution of patients attending ... outpatient unit According to our and to previous results, quality of life of children with different severity of heart diseases - as a whole group - does not differ significantly from that of...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... brain and lung tissues of raccoons examined in year 2001 than those of years 1998 and 2000 Of note, small and large (multinucleated) syncytia were present in the central nervous system and (Fig ... 2000, and 2001 but not in 1999, 2002, and 2003 A total of 9/25 (36%) of the animals submitted for necropsy in 1998 and 1/14 (7%) in 2000 had lesions consistent with CDV infection The number of animals ... Vero cells consisted of the formation of granular-appearing cytoplasm with vacuolization (small vacuoles), followed by rounding of the cells and detachment, and rare formation of small stellate...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... Snaith and Zigmond's [29] interpretation of HADS-A and HADSD scores of or over, approximately one-third of the patients screened positive for anxiety (32%) and/ or depression (35%) The results of ... Chinese version of HADS to patients for self-completion Demographic data and medical history were also obtained from patients and medical charts Participants One hundred and sixty patients with ... design of the study and assisted in the drafting of the manuscript VL participated in the design of the study and assisted in the drafting of the manuscript CM participated in the design of the...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... health; VT: vitality Figure Bland-Altman plot of EQ-5D and SF-6D Bland-Altman plot of EQ-5D and SF-6D Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2006, 4:20 ... table l i Figure Histogram of baseline EQ-5D and SF-6D scores Histogram of baseline EQ-5D and SF-6D scores Page of (page number not for citation purposes) Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2006, ... study group of 561 patients consisted of mostly males (70.4%); the mean age was 60.2 years (sd 9.3) Domain comparison The EQ-5D and the SF-6D both include pain and mental health (anxiety and depression)...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... wide range of problems in a given domain, corresponding to widely different levels of HRQoL A 5-level version of the EQ-5D has been created and piloted and shows evidence of feasibility and greater ... Goldsmith et al Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2010, 8:54 http://www.hqlo.com/content/8/1/54 Page of 13 Table 1: Distribution of records selected for estimation and validation of models by study ... frequencies and proportions The relationship between the EQ-5D index and categorical variables was explored by summarizing the mean and standard deviation of the EQ-5D index for different levels of these...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... obtained by Lacey and Philipp [4], Ibragimov and Lifshits [5], Miao [6], Berkes and Cs´ ki [7], H¨ rmann [8], Wu [9, 10], and Ye and Wu [11] Huang and Zhang [12] and Zhang a o and Yang [13] obtained ... sums of random variables in the domain of attraction of the normal law Qunying Wu1,2 College of Science, Guilin University of Technology, Guilin 541004, P R China Guangxi Key Laboratory of Spatial ... Innovation in the Construction of Talent Highlands in Guangxi Institutions of Higher Learning ([2011]47), and the support program of Key Laboratory of Spatial Information and Geomatics (1103108-08)...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 21:20

... Foundation of China (11026047 and 10571110), Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province (ZR2009AM011, ZR2010AQ026, and ZR2010AZ003) (China) and Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of ... (23) Feng et al Journal of Inequalities and Applications 2011, 2011:29 http://www.journalofinequalitiesandapplications.com/content/2011/1/29 Page of 14 Combining (17), (21), and (23), we obtain t ... the boundedness of solutions of certain delay dynamic equations on time scales Feng et al Journal of Inequalities and Applications 2011, 2011:29 http://www.journalofinequalitiesandapplications.com/content/2011/1/29...

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