C oronary artery disease in the cardiac transplant population has been identified as a cause of worse long-term outcomes and accelerated graft vasculopathy. Pre-existing double or triple vessel in the donor heart is associated with a 61.5% post-transplant 30-day mortality. 1 Significant angiographic donor heart coronary artery disease is generally considered a contraindication to transplantatio...

brain death is defined as the permanent, irreversible and concurrent loss of all brain and brain stem functions. brain death diagnosis is based on clinical criteria and it is not routine to use paraclinical studies. in some countries, electroencephalogram (eeg) is performed in all patients for the determination of brain death while there is some skepticism in relying on eeg as a confirmatory te...

manual citrus harvesting is commonly performing hard, expensive and time consuming. in this study, a factorial experiment with a completely randomized design in three replications was performed to find out the effect of frequency (three levels of 5, 7.5 and 10 hz), vibration time (three levels of 10, 15 and 20 seconds) on harvesting capacity and losses of thomson cultivar of orange. the results...

With increasing fishing pressures having brought several stocks to the brink of collapse, there is a need for developing efficient harvesting methods that account for factors beyond merely yield or profit. We consider the dynamics and management of a stage-structured fish stock. Our work is based on a consumer-resource model which De Roos et al. (in Theor. Popul. Biol. 73, 47-62, 2008) have der...

In this paper we study bifurcations in predator-prey systems with seasonal prey harvesting. First, when the seasonal harvesting reduces to constant yield, it is shown that various kinds of bifurcations, including saddle-node bifurcation, degenerate Hopf bifurcation, and Bogdanov– Takens bifurcation (i.e., cusp bifurcation of codimension 2), occur in the model as parameters vary. The existence o...

In this article, we study a ratiodependent predator-prey system where predator population is subjected to harvesting with MichaelisMenten type harvesting rate. We study the existence of heteroclinic bifurcations in an exploited predatorprey system by using Melnikov’s method. Our simulation results also show that the system may exhibit monostability, bistability and tristability depending on the...

Technical aspects of composite arterial grafting with double skeleton-ized internal thoracic arteries. Bilateral skeleton-ised internal thoracic artery graftings in off-pump coronary artery bypass: early result of Y versus in situ grafts. results of coronary grafting using ultrasonically skeletonized internal thoracic arteries. We read with great interest the recent review from Dr. Ali and cowo...

A comparison of 14 currently applicable wood harvesting systems was assessed with respect to ergonomic point of view. For this purpose, the research method, based on the Hodges-Lehmann rule and the integrated work-severity rate of single machinery, was developed for ergonomic evaluation of cut-to-length, tree-length and full-tree harvesting systems. Altogether, about 130 different parameters of...

Energy harvesting, which offers a never-ending energy supply, has emerged as a prominent technology to prolong the lifetime and reduce costs for the battery-powered wireless sensor networks. However, how to improve the energy efficiency while guaranteeing the quality of service (QoS) for energy harvesting based wireless sensor networks is still an open problem. In this paper, we develop statist...