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Risk Scores For VAD Implantation

Since there are very few prospective trials in patients who undergo LVAD placement as bridge to transplantation (BTT) and very little data on the long-term use of MCS as a permanent alternative to heart transplantation (HT), or destination therapy (DT) , most of the patient selection criteria for LVAD therapy, including the criteria for DT published by the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid...

Et informatikkperspektiv på norsk lovgivning om karakterklager i høyere utdanning

KD har i en nylig proposisjon foreslått endringer av klagesensurordningen, hvor det legges opp til at en modell med blind omsensur, som allerede har vært brukt ved en del læresteder, nå skal gjøres obligatorisk for alle læresteder. I denne artikkelen sammenlignes gammel og ny klagesensurordning med ordningene i en del andre land. Vi diskuterer ulike typer sensurfeil (med eksempel fra programmer...

VAD for VoIP Using Cepstrum

As telephony services are being supported on Internet the focus is now on multiplexing many speech streams by exploiting the speech characteristics. The multiplexing gain is an important factor when applications such as teleconference service are ported on to the Internet. Here we discuss Voice Activity Detection (VAD) for Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) based on Cepstrum. VAD aids in savin...

Evaluation of Cardiac Function after VAD Implantation

Heart failure constitutes a major health problem with a current prevalence of over 5.8 million in the USA and over 23 million worldwide. (Lloyd-Jones, 2010) During the last decades a dramatic increase in the number of heart failure patients and hospitalizations was observed (Curtis et al., 2008) with an incidence of more than 550,000 annually in the USA and a lifetime risk of 20%. Although prev...

When VAD Things Happen to Good People.