The most common etiology of tricuspid stenosis is rheumatic, and in most cases it is associated with valvular regurgitation. Interestingly, there have been reports of tricuspid stenosis without associated valvular regurgitation, mostly related to pacemaker leads. Percutaneous tricuspid valvuloplasty may be a therapeutic alternative to surgery in cases of pure tricuspid stenosis without other co...

In this paper, a novel two-dimensional Discrete Fourier Transform based information embedding has been proposed for color image authentication (2D-DFTSDECIA). Initially, each 2 × 2 sub-image block of the carrier image is pre-adjusted, if necessary and then transformed by the application of two dimensional Discrete Fourier Transforms (2D-DFT) where the transformation technique has been applied i...

In this article, topology optimization of two-dimensional (2D) building frames subjected to seismic loading is performed using the polygonal finite element method. Artificial ground motion accelerograms compatible with the design response spectrum of ASCE 7-16 are generated for the response history dynamic analysis needed in the optimization. The mean compliance of structure is minimized as a t...

We have studied quantized transport in HgTe wells with inverted band structure corresponding to the two-dimensional topological insulator phase (2D TI) with locally controlled density allowing n-p-n and n-2D TI-n junctions. The resistance reveals the fractional plateau 2h/e(2) in the n-p-n regime in the presence of the strong perpendicular magnetic field. We found that in the n-2D TI-n regime t...

Abstract Surface passivation by two‐dimensional (2D) organic spacers provides promising avenue to substantially enhance the photovoltaic performance and structural stability of perovskite solar cells (PSCs). Herein, a diammonium salt 2,2′‐(Ethylenedioxy) diethyl ammonium diiodide (EDBEI 2 ) is used passivate surface defects with spontaneously established Dion‐Jacobson (DJ)‐type two‐dimensional/...

background: in this study, two-dimensional gel electrophoresis (2-de) method was applied to determine and compare the protein spots expressed in the two field isolates of leishmania major and recovered from the patients who were clinically sensitive and resistant to glucantime® treatment. methods: leishmania parasites were isolated from the cutaneous lesions of two cl infected patients in shira...

First-principles calculation was used to study the structural and electronic features of the low-dimensional oxide structure, SrTiO3/Sr1−xLaxTiO3 (x= 0.25) superlattices, constructed by submonolayer low-dimensional La doping into SrTiO3. We demonstrate a dimensionality crossover from three-dimensional (3D) to two-dimensional (2D) electronic behavior in the system. Two types of carriers, one con...

BACKGROUND Two-dimensional strain echocardiography (2D-SE) calculates tissue velocities via frame-to-frame tracking of unique acoustic markers within the image and provides strain parameters in two dimensions. Novel 2D-SE software allows semi-automated strain measurements and increased averaging capabilities optimizing signal-noise ratio. AIM We tested whether 2D-SE and the currently used and...