the role of chest computed tomography as an alternative to echocardiography

... is to adapt the precoder to the changes in the channel To achieve this, the diagonal coefficients of the matrix CF (direct channel coefficients), which J Louveaux and A.-J van der Veen are easy to ... than for reasonable cases: it does not seem reasonable to allow the interference, which is due to changes in the channel, to go significantly above the noise as it would unacceptably decrease the ... necessity to adequately choose the stepsize As in any LMS-like algorithm, the performance is sensitive to the choice of the stepsize μ, see (54), and the error variance can be reduced by decreasing...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 23:20

... course and kinetics of cTnI and its relation to outcome may be of interest, the main purpose of our study was to determine whether early cTnI elevation is of clinically relevant importance Conclusion ... Demographic and clinical characteristics of the study patients enrolled are shown in Table The mean age of the study population was 53.9 ± 19 years and 68% were male There was no significant difference ... elevation is an important marker of severity of illness and is associated with high mortality rate is still clinically relevant, particularly in view of the fact that the Kaplan-Meier analysis indicates...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 22:22

... lives Recent human studies suggest tea may contribute to a reduction in the risk of cardiovascular disease and some forms of cancer as well as to the promotion of oral health and other physiological ... and prevention of chronic disease Both in vitro and in vivo tea polyphenols act as an antioxidants Catechins induce Phase I cytochrome P450 1A1, 1A2, and 2B1 and Phase II glucuronyl transferase ... found the total antioxidant capacity of green tea to be more potent than black tea Using the Tocol Equivalent Antioxidant Capacity (TEAC) assay, Rice-Evans et al [25] ranked epicatechin and catechin...

Ngày tải lên: 10/04/2015, 17:16

... interacts with Annexin A2, which is bound to the cytosolic plasma membrane, and enhances the activity of bundling actin filament and linking of the membrane to the cytoskeleton Role of the membrane microdomain, ... strengthening the linkage between polymerized actins and reorganization of the cytoskeleton–membrane interaction may result in the aggregation of actin pedestals and the induction of membrane protrusions ... the membrane, such as membrane–cytoskeleton linkage, cell signaling, the assembly of certain membrane domains, endocytosis and ion fluxes across the membrane [14] Annexin A2 binds directly and specifically...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 09:20

... NK cell cytotoxicity assays WPH carried out the anti-asialo GM1 and CyP depletion experiments with the assistance of JLM JLM performed the flow cytometric analysis of spleen cells WPH and BMG conceived ... account for the capacity of antiasialo GM1 or anti-NK1.1 to impair the resistance of BALB/c and C57BL/6 mice to HSV-1 infection [12,26,27] Consistent with this hypothesis, anti-asialo GM1 increased ... skin An important caveat of the NK cell depletion experiments was that control IgG or anti-asialo GM1 had the unanticipated effect of prolonging the survival of HSV-1 infected scid mice Neither...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... NK cell cytotoxicity assays WPH carried out the anti-asialo GM1 and CyP depletion experiments with the assistance of JLM JLM performed the flow cytometric analysis of spleen cells WPH and BMG conceived ... account for the capacity of antiasialo GM1 or anti-NK1.1 to impair the resistance of BALB/c and C57BL/6 mice to HSV-1 infection [12,26,27] Consistent with this hypothesis, anti-asialo GM1 increased ... skin An important caveat of the NK cell depletion experiments was that control IgG or anti-asialo GM1 had the unanticipated effect of prolonging the survival of HSV-1 infected scid mice Neither...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 04:20

... selection Translaryngeal tracheostomy (Fantoni’s technique) For translaryngeal tracheostomy, in contrast to the other techniques, the initial puncture of the trachea is carried out with the needle ... technique, and this can be improved by blunt dissection of the pretracheal tissue when using the Cook and Portex kits and, in case of difficult anatomy, by applying endoscopic guidance Furthermore, too ... the point of entry to be subcricoidal; however, this was found to be too high, with a risk of subglottic stenosis [29–31] Therefore, the preferred site of entry is now between the first and the...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:20

... variables in human breast cancer [8] An accumulation of tumour associated macrophages (TAM) in the stroma of a tumour may serve as an immunological indicator of the defence capability of a host However, ... measures (0 to for N, and for M and H, 1-4 for the other) had to taken into consideration Therefore, each variable was divided by the number of their possible realizations (i.e by two for M and ... and prepared the manuscript AF basically was involved in the design of the study, evaluated and interpreted the tissue data, together with WK she drafted the manuscript BK controlled the tissue...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 16:20

... a grant from Astellas Pharma US Inc, the manufacturer of micafungin MDZ and AFS are consultants to and SK is an employee of Astellas SK is a stock holder in Astellas Pharma US, Inc, the manufacturer ... value and the life tables life expectancy served as the estimate of life expectancy of a sepsis survivor The QALY adjustment was based on the mean of those reported by Fowler and colleagues [26] and ... contribution to the precision of the model (Figure 2), the cost-effectiveness of MIC over FLU persisted Another important limitation of the current study is our inability to quantify the contribution of...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 16:21

... learners and those who feel they are not very proficient in the second language  The first language can help to move the task along by establishing a joint understanding of the text and to manage the ... save the time to teach the students the usage and the meaning of the words It is quite obvious that once students can the translation exercises, they certainly understand the meaning of the words ... meaning of the word is the most important aspect and the very first thing students need to know when they learn new words 16,7% of the teachers gave the first priority to the grammar and usage of the...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2015, 14:00

... look of the project Accounting needs to supply a payment service and also needs to keep track of the project itself The poor old manager has to balance all of these competing concerns and to manage ... in the database with the associated visit data contained in the data file When the two are equal, the point has been reached in the data file wherein the last entry was made to the database Any ... implementation, as well as that of the other classes which comprise our toolkit Meet the Toolkit The toolkit consists of two support classes, and three “core” classes This distinction is made in that the...

Ngày tải lên: 24/01/2014, 14:20

... of a large ASD with left to right shunt and was referred to the Cardiac Surgical service for repair of the ASD Due to the high likelihood of allergy to heparin and in the absence of standardized ... (ASD) was diagnosed using Trans-Thoracic Echocardiogram There was also a history of transient neurological deficit that was thought to be the result of paradoxical emboli across the ASD Further ... hypersensitivity, the options available were to either desensitize the patient to heparin or to use an alternative anticoagulant Following discussions with haematologists and immunologist, it was decided to...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:21

... Axial section of positron emission tomography (PET), computed tomography and PET -computed tomography images of 68Ga DOTATOC scan showing no significant radiotracer uptake in the histologically ... enhanced CT (CECT) of the chest revealed a mass measuring 27 × 16 mm and occluding the left main bronchus On bronchoscopy, the mass was seen to be occluding the left main bronchus Results of a bronchoscopic ... histologically proved low grade left bronchial mucoepidermoid carcinoma Axial section of positron emission tomography (PET), computed tomography and PET -computed tomography images of 18F FDG scan...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 03:21

... distributions [7] As the main resistance to heat-transfer can be found in the air on the dry face of the system, the advantage of the higher thermal conductance of metals than that of plastics is negligible ... interesting the idea of considering and analyzing the use of these devices Another disadvantage is the water consumption associated to the operation of these systems, which is a scarce resource in dry and ... outerwall of the bricks into that air The cooling capacity of the device depends on the amount of evaporated water from the humid surface into the air Thus, the mechanisms of masstransfer are...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:10

... model of the psychrophilic alkaline phosphatase was built [21] on the basis of the homology to the E coli enzyme the structure of which is known [24] For display of the model and for design and analysis ... higher than the native cold adapted enzyme (Table 1) The mutant G261A/Y269A exhibits an Ea almost the same as in the case of the native enzyme (Table 1) Thermal inactivation of mutant and wild-type ... attempted to investigate the functional importance of the Gly pair, located in the vicinity of the active site of the cold adapted enzyme and to study its potential role in the establishment of its...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 04:20

... from the impact of dredging which is unlikely to cease As an example, the Port of Brisbane’s activity is dependent on the continual removal of sand bars at the mouth of the Brisbane River – the ... Action Plan: The purpose of this plan is to ensure the protection of areas significant to the health of waterways and related ecological values The purpose of this plan falls directly under the remit ... disturbed – the water quality into the bay from these areas is therefore relatively good Discharges from the other coastal catchments transfer significant quantities of sediment and nutrients into the...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 15:21

... overcomes these problems through the use of accruals Therefore, the focus of the tests is to assess the ability of each measure to reflect firm performance in their realized form (as opposed to their ... seeking to go public, and by investors and creditors The objective of this paper is to better understand the role of accruals in producing earnings as one of the key outputs of the accounting process ... cp and AS, Therefore, the magnitude of accruals is larger, the greater the change in the level of sales, AS, , and the larger the proportion of sales on credit, p Generalizing from sales, S, can...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 03:20

... between the substrate and the arginine residue Finally, another aspect of the R97 and Y331 inuence on catalysis that must be taken into account is the modulation of the ionization state of the catalytic ... changed the dielectric constant of the active site, the deletion of the hydrogen bond between R97 and E399 is probably a major cause of the shift in the pKa of E399 Therefore, R97 facilitates the ... not enough to completely explain the DpKa of E187 in the Y331F mutant, because in the R97K and R97M mutants the same increment in the pKa of E399 did not change signicantly the pKa of E187 This...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 15:21

... Germany has more than 4000 digesters (Dolan et al 2011) and there are numerous examples of integrated management of waste and biomethane fuel production to provide public transport in Sweden and ... organic loading rate: one to ensure the highest replacement parts of the material inside the reactors and the other to analyse the process in a stable condition once all the feed had replaced the ... urban aggregation, where organic waste, such as the organic fraction of municipal solid organic waste (OFMSW) and wastewater sludge, are produced (Tambone et al 2009; Pognani et al 2009) To optimize...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 23:20

... tuber to attain a large size Areas of swidden rice, maize and cassava were calculated from the number of kilograms of planted rice, planted maize and the number of cassava plants (50 kilos of planted ... free-range fed, and are walked to the market, the cost of raising them and transporting them to market is relatively low Chickens and pigs often die because of epidemic diseases In general, animal ... order to “keep deceased ancestors and spirits warm” Additionally, rattan and bamboo made up the biggest portion of cash income when compared to other NTFPs Some households use rattan and bamboo to...

Ngày tải lên: 06/08/2014, 19:20