double pylorus (dp) is a rare condition characterized by the presence of two openings from the gastric antrum to the duodenal bulb, which may be congenital or acquired. herein, we describe a case of dp in a cirrhotic patient.

‘Openings’ are strategies for playing the beginning of a game, and are often described as sequences of low-level actions (as in chess, for example). This makes it easy to query a database of recorded games for useful information, such as an opening’s success rate, popularity, and more. ‘Tactical shooters’ are video games featuring pseudo-realistic tactical simulations. Here, openings are conven...

Long-lasting mitochondrial permeability transition pore (mPTP) openings damage mitochondria, but transient mPTP openings protect against chronic cardiac stress. To probe the mechanism, we subjected isolated cardiac mitochondria to gradual Ca(2+) loading, which, in the absence of BSA, induced long-lasting mPTP opening, causing matrix depolarization. However, with BSA present to mimic cytoplasmic...

The existence of a moonpool may affect motion characteristics and stability drillship. This paper presents numerical experimental study on the influence configuration performance drillship under condition constant displacement. Ship hydrostatics three-dimensional (3D) potential flow theory are employed to calculate static curves (GZ curves) response amplitude operators (RAOs) with conjoined dou...

Subject to the assumption that sub-barrier fusion is described by an effective one-dimensional energy-independent local potential barrier, the Jeffreys-Wentzel-Kramers-Brillouin approximation for the fusion cross sections is inverted to determine this effective potential. Potential barriers, with their associated experimental errors, are presented for 13C+ 13C and 40Ca+ 40Ca, and the assumption...

Stellate cells from entorhinal cortex (EC) layer II express both a transient Na(+) current (I(Na)) and a low-threshold persistent Na(+) current (I(NaP)) that helps to generate intrinsic theta-like oscillatory activity. We have used single-channel patch-clamp recording to investigate the Na(+) channels responsible for I(NaP) in EC stellate cells. Macropatch (more than six channels) recordings sh...

We instituted a multidisciplinary educational and operational quality improvement initiative to assess the effect of process interventions on reducing OR door openings and, by extension, surgical site infections. From 2009 to 2012, we conducted an initial trial to gather information and identify reasons for door openings followed by a three-phase investigation that evaluated a total of 102 orth...

Abstract. Indoor/Outdoor modeling of buildings is an important issue in the field building life cycle management. It seen as a joint process where two aspects collaborate to take advantage their semantic and geometric complementary. This global approach will allow more complete, correct, precise coherent reconstruction . The first such thus precisely register this data. lack overlap between ind...

This paper presents an objective speech quality measure which is based on loudness patterns using the equivalent rectangular bandwidth (ERB) scale. The proposed measure, called the loudness pattern distortion (LPD), is computed from the differences between the loudness patterns of the original and processed speech. The LPD measure takes into account the transmission through the outer and middle...