A 27-year-old man had inferior myocardial infarction following superficial chest trauma. Coronary arteriography documented an isolated total occlusion of the right coronary artery, probably caused by localized extra-coronary compression, and no other evidence of intrinsic coronary disease. The left anterior descending artery later developed a localized proximal stenosis, most likely due to mura...

433 A63-YEAR-OLD-WOMAN had right hand weakness accompanying a right neck mass. Examination revealed a large right thyroid mass, bilateral cervical lymphadenopathy, and weakness of the right intrinsic hand muscles and adductor pollicis. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) (Fig. 1) revealed a 6.5-cm thyroid mass (A) and a destructive lesion of C7 and T1 with spinal cord compression (B). Thyroid fine...

prior animal models have shown that rats sustaining 3-second immediate spinal cord compression had significantly better functional recovery and smaller lesion volumes than rats subjected to compression times of 1 hour, 6 hours, 3 weeks, and 10 weeks after spinal cord injury. we compare locomotor rating scales and spinal cord histopathology after 3 seconds and 10 minute compression times. . ten ...

This paper discussed an improvement algorithm of image digital watermarking based on the discrete wavelet transform (DWT) and singular value decomposition (SVD). In this algorithm, a good characteristic of multiresolution and time-frequency local analysis of discrete wavelet transform combining with image intrinsic algebraic properties of SVD. After decomposing the original host image into four...

Connection Science Publication details, including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713411269 A novel and practicable on-chip adaptive lossless image compression scheme using intrinsic evolvable hardware Jingsong He ab; Xin Yao acd; Yunbi Chen ab a Nature Inspired Computation and Applications Laboratory, China b Department of ...

Polymer nanocomposites with engineered electrical properties can be made by tuning the fabrication method, processing conditions and filler’s geometric and physical properties. This work focuses on investigating the effect of filler’s geometry (aspect ratio and shape), intrinsic electrical conductivity, alignment and dispersion within the polymer, and polymer crystallinity, on the percolation t...

An ABCD formalism is identified to characterize a seeded Free Electron Laser (FEL) with three chirps: an initial frequency chirp in the seed Laser, an energy chirp in the electron bunch, and an intrinsic frequency chirp due to the FEL process. A scheme of generating attosecond few-cycle pulses is proposed by invoking an FEL seeded by high-order harmonic generation (HHG) from an infrared laser. ...

Ipsilateral invasion of the cervical sympathetic plexus, leading to Horner's syndrome (miosis, enophthalmos, ptosis) in 14-50% of patients [2] . Ipsilateral reflex sympathetic dystrophy in the arm, with enhanced sensitivity to touch, and skin changes. Shoulder and arm pain (from the brachial plexus invasion C8-T1) with wasting of the intrinsic hand muscles and paraesthesiae in the medial side o...

In this paper, we propose a new method for computerized human face recognition using fractal transformations. The popular use of fractal image coding has been for image compression. It is only recently that their uses for object recognition are being explored. We will show that by utilizing the intrinsic properties of block-wise self-similar transformations in fractal image coding we can use it...

Ipsilateral invasion of the cervical sympathetic plexus, leading to Horner's syndrome (miosis, enophthalmos, ptosis) in 14-50% of patients [2] . Ipsilateral reflex sympathetic dystrophy in the arm, with enhanced sensitivity to touch, and skin changes. Shoulder and arm pain (from the brachial plexus invasion C8-T1) with wasting of the intrinsic hand muscles and paraesthesiae in the medial side o...