Abstract Energetic neutral atom (ENA) measurements by IBEX reveal that the heliotail comprises an energy-dependent multilobe structure. We examine evolution over 11 yr of observations covering a full solar cycle (SC). find following: (1) The structure persists entire SC, comprising three ENA-enhanced and two ENA-suppressed lobes. (2) Lobe sizes locations are generally stable but exhibit variati...

A 61-yr-old female was diagnosed with pulmonary embolism. She had a history of poorly differentiated thyroid cancer with follicular cell phenotype, and had first been treated in 2006 by thyroidectomy and radioactive iodine-131. Local relapse (cervical nodes) had occurred within 3 months and required five cycles of chemotherapy, consisting of cisplatin and doxorubicin, followed by cervical radio...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the impact white matter hyperintensities (WMH) detected on magnetic resonance imaging have on motor dysfunction and cognitive impairment in elderly subjects without dementia. DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING Population-based study on the incidence and prevalence of cognitive impairment in Olmsted County, Minnesota. PARTICIPANTS A total of 148 elderly subjects...

A 78-year-old woman with permanent atrial fibrillation was referred to our institution for percutaneous left atrial appendage (LAA) occlusion. The patient had a high thromboembolic risk based on a CHA2DS2-VASc score of 8 and was on oral anticoagulant therapy with rivaroxaban at a dose of 20 mg/d. Because of major postural instability, the patient experienced recurrent falls with subsequent larg...

In this paper numerical results are reviewed ([13]) that demonstrate that common second-order operator-splitting methods can exhibit instabilities when integrating the Brusselator equations out to moderate times of about seven periods of oscillation. These instabilities are manifested as high wave number spatial errors. In this paper we further analyze this problem and present a theorem for sta...

Radiologists recommend follow-up imaging principally to ensure stability of a potentially malignant lesion or for further diagnostic characterization [1]. Often, these findings are incidental to the reason for the current exam – for example, a small pulmonary nodule in the lower lobe of the lung may be detected on a CT abdomen study that was ordered to rule out appendicitis. Failure to appropri...

Pulmonary nodular lymphoid hyperplasia (PNLH) is a reactive lymphoid proliferation manifesting as multiple solitary nodules or localized infiltrates in the lungs. It is a type of benign lymphoproliferative disease that can affect the lungs. We present the case of a 41-year-old female patient with respiratory symptoms such as productive cough, left chest pain, and dyspnea. Imaging findings revea...

Multiplexing Antenna Arrays is the rapid development antiinterference key technology of 4G mobile communication. The core is the direction of pattern synthesis. Yet some of the algorithm has the problem of needing lots of data, slow speed of optimization and convergence accuracy. In this paper the improved antenna pattern synthesis based on particle swarm optimal algorithm is presented. Simulat...

background: we evaluated the diagnostic value of electroencephalography (eeg), video-eeg monitoring (vem) and magnetic resonance imaging (mri) of the brain with epilepsy protocol in patients with complex partial epilepsy. methods: forty-two consecutive patients underwent complete neurological examination, eeg, and mri with a modified epilepsy protocol. a subset of these patients (n = 29) also u...