Technical aspects of composite arterial grafting with double skeleton-ized internal thoracic arteries. Bilateral skeleton-ised internal thoracic artery graftings in off-pump coronary artery bypass: early result of Y versus in situ grafts. results of coronary grafting using ultrasonically skeletonized internal thoracic arteries. We read with great interest the recent review from Dr. Ali and cowo...

The implementation and utilization of an organizational architecture, specifically information technology architecture (ITA), can enable better management of information technology (IT) resources. Whereas predecessors of the ITA tend to focus more on systems development, data sharing, and systems integration efforts within the organization, this particular organizational architecture tends to f...

It is now well established that within the hen ovary, preovulatory follicles rarely become atretic and that granulosa cells from preovulatory follicles are relatively resistant to undergoing apoptosis in vitro. By comparison, prehierarchal (< or = 8-mm diameter) follicles are highly susceptible to becoming atretic in vivo, and approximately 70% of granulosa cells collected from 3- to 8-mm-diame...

BACKGROUND This paper presents the design, development and first evaluation of an algorithm, named Intelligent Therapy Assistant (ITA), which automatically selects, configures and schedules rehabilitation tasks for patients with cognitive impairments after an episode of Acquired Brain Injury. The ITA is integrated in "Guttmann, Neuro Personal Trainer" (GNPT), a cognitive tele-rehabilitation pla...

Itaconic acid (ITA) is one of the top 12 platform chemicals. The global ITA market expanding due to rising demand for bio-based unsaturated polyester resin and its non-toxic qualities. Although bioconversion using microbes main approach in current industrial production ITA, ecological faces several issues to: low efficiency, difficulty employ inexpensive raw materials, high manufacturing costs....

UNLABELLED We prospectively studied the effects of the ligation of the inferior thyroid artery (ITA) on postoperative hypoparathyroidism in 48 patients who underwent functional subtotal thyroidectomy. Patients were randomized into two groups: A, with bilateral ligation of the ITA and B, without ligation of the ITA. Parathyroid function was checked preoperatively and after surgery by clinical ex...

The class of Interrupt Timed Automata (ITA) has been introduced to model multi-task systems with interruptions in a single processor environment. This is a subclass of hybrid automata in which real valued variables consist of a restricted type of stopwatches (variables with rate 0 or 1) organized along levels. While reachability is undecidable with usual stopwatches, it was proved that this pro...