Introduction Detection of microvascular obstruction (MO) with gadolinium first-pass perfusion (FP) and late gadolinium enhancement (LGE) MRI predicts outcomes of STEMI patients. Previous data indicate the presence of MO early after MI correlates to worse prognosis and left ventricular (LV) remodeling. Nonetheless, FP and early hypoenhancement on LGE may persist after reperfused STEMI for a vari...

In the present paper, we outline few characteristics that every viable congestion control protocol for elastic traffic should satisfy. We provide and outline ways by which these characteristics can be measured and verified. We’ll focus in our illustrations on protocols designed for ABR (Available Bit Rate) traffic; nonetheless transmission protocols designed for the Internet (IP) can be easily ...

Right ventricular strain patterns on electrocardiogram such as right axis derivation and S1Q3T3 are well known for their diagnostic value in cases of acute pulmonary embolism. Nonetheless, these changes are not pathognomonic. We report a patient with electrocardiographic evidence of right ventricular strain secondary to an unusual etiology.

Pizza is a strict superset of Java that incorporates three ideas from the academic community: parametric polymor-phism, higher-order functions, and algebraic data types. Pizza is deened by translation into Java and compiles into the Java Virtual Machine, requirements which strongly constrain the design space. Nonetheless, Pizza ts smoothly to Java, with only a few rough edges.

The goal of a technology evaluation is to compare competing algorithms from a single technology. Testing of all algorithms is done on a standardized database collected by a “universal” sensor. Nonetheless, performance against this database will depend upon both the environment and the population in which it was collected. Because the database is fixed, results of technology tests are repeatable...

When starved for nitrogen, cells of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae produced abnormally small cells. Nonetheless, during starvation, only cells of a size characteristic of growing cells were capable of initiating a bud. Even when growth was severely limited, some event(s) in G1 required growth to a critical size for completion.

FDG PET is well recognized for its utility in cancer workup. Nonetheless, the differentiation between malignant and benign pulmonary lesions by FDG PET is challenging. The authors report three proved cases of pulmonary tuberculosis in acute active and open stages. The activities and extents of infection were demonstrable in FDG PET, which could not be observed in either chest radiograph or comp...

Although effective treatments for obsessive-compulsive related disorders exist [1-3], nonetheless the average delay from onset of symptoms to initiating treatment is over ten years [4]. Additionally, obsessive-compulsive (OC) spectrum disorders without appropriate treatment tend to be chronic in nature [5,6]. Therefore, it is crucial that people with these spectrum disorders engage in the exist...

The history and origins of proficiency testing of clinical laboratories are reviewed. Since the introduction of proficiency testing in the late 1940s, dramatic improvement in laboratory performance has been demonstrated. Nonetheless, the poor performance found two decades earlier was summoned to support the passage of the Clinical Laboratory Improvement Act of 1967 (CLIA '67).

N-Heterocycles form weak adducts with B(C(6)F(5))(3) that exist in equilibrium with the corresponding FLP; nonetheless, these heterocycles are reduced in the presence of a catalytic amount of the borane B(C(6)F(5))(3) and H(2).