PURPOSE Children's blood changes during angiocardiography may not be only due to the contrast media (CM). METHODS We studied the presence and severity of changes in those parameters in 35 pediatric patients undergoing angiocardiography with ioxaglate aiming to identify independent variable responsible for those changes. Blood samples were taken at the beginning of the procedure (SI), at the e...

Search in cyclic AND/OR graphs was traditionally known to be an unsolved problem. In the recent past several important studies have been reported in this domain. In this paper, we have taken a fresh look at the problem. First, a new and comprehensive theoretical framework for cyclic AND/OR graphs has been presented, which was found missing in the recent literature. Based on this framework, two ...

OBJECTIVES To assess willed actions in patients with schizophrenia using reaction time (RT) tasks that differ in the degree to which they involve volitionally controlled versus stimulus driven responses. METHODS Ten patients diagnosed with schizophrenia and 13 normal controls of comparable age were tested. Subjects performed a visual simple RT (SRT), an uncued four choice reaction time (CRT),...

S. Hofmann and S. Kim established in [HK] the equivalence between the local boundedness property for a parabolic system and the gaussian bound for the corresponding fundamental solution. In the present short note we show that the same equivalence remains true for parabolic Neumann BVP's. Let Ω be a bounded Lipschitz domain of R n and let (a ij) = (a ij (x, t)) ∈ L ∞ (Ω × (0, ∞)) n×n satisfying ...

In this paper, we introduce a diamond episode of the form s1 → E → s2, where s1 and s2 are events and E is a set of events. The diamond episode s1 → E → s2 means that every event of E follows an event s1 and is followed by an event s2. Then, by formulating the support of diamond episodes, in this paper, we design the algorithm FreqDmd to extract all of the frequent diamond episodes from a given...

The double exponential model t t M T Be Ae vl μ μ − − + = was fitted to log10(vl) data from day 0 to day 28 post ART. When vl was undetectable it was replaced with the limit of detection (80 copies per ml), indicated by the dashed line in Figure S1 and S2. Fits were performed by nonlinear least squares regression, confidence intervals were calculated by bootstrapping the cases and trimming the ...

OBJECTIVES With the introduction of smaller probes (S1, S2), the use of transient elastography has been expanded to children. Accordingly, we aimed to address points of consideration in probe choice and interpretation of measured liver stiffness by applying and comparing FibroScan S and M probes in biliary atresia. METHODS Using S1, S2, and M probes, 3 liver stiffness measurements, success ra...

and Applied Analysis 3 exists, when σ t t here by s → t it is understood that s approaches t in the time scale and when x is continuous at t and σ t > t, xΔ t : x σ t − x t μ t . 1.7 Note that if T R, then the delta derivative is just the standard derivative, and when T Z the delta derivative is just the forward difference operator. Hence, our results contain the discrete and continuous cases a...

Sensory gating deficit in schizophrenia patients has been well-documented. However, a central conceptual issue, regarding whether the gating deficit results from an abnormal initial response (S1) or difficulty in attenuating the response to the repeating stimulus (S2), raise doubts about the validity and utility of the S2/S1 ratio as a measure of sensory gating. This meta-analysis study, theref...

The articles [17], [18], [3], [5], [4], [8], [2], [7], [11], [6], [16], [12], [19], [9], [10], [1], [14], [15], and [13] provide the notation and terminology for this paper. For simplicity, we use the following convention: k, n, m denote elements of N, X denotes a set, s1, s2 denote complex sequences, Y denotes a subset of C, f , f1, f2 denote partial functions from C to C, r denotes a real num...