BACKGROUND Low-energy shock wave (SW) therapy has improved myocardial ischemia in both a porcine model and in patients with severe angina pectoris. METHODS AND RESULTS To further confirm the effectiveness and safety of SW therapy, 8 patients with severe angina pectoris were treated with SW therapy in a double-blind, placebo-controlled and cross-over manner. SW therapy, but not placebo, signif...

Cloud-climate interactions are one of the greatest uncertainties in contemporary general circulation models (GCMs) (Cess et al. 1989, 1990), and the present study has focused on one aspect of this. Specifically, combined satellite and near-surface shortwave (SW) flux measurements have been used to test the impact of clouds on the SW radiation budget of two GCMs. Concentration is initially on SW...

Magnetostatic backward volume spin-wave SW pulses have been cloned and trapped through the use of multiple, properly timed, parametric pumping PP pulses. The experiment was done with 30-ns-wide pulses at 5 GHz in a 7.1m-thick yttrium iron garnet film. Well-timed, large-area, high-power, 2-ns-wide microwave pulses at 10 GHz were used to pump the SW pulses. The interaction between the initial SW ...

To explore the effect of physiologic hypertrophy superimposed on pathologic hypertrophy, hearts from female control rats (C), renal hypertensive rats (H), rats conditioned with a 10-12 wk swimming program (Sw), and hypertensive rats trained by the swimming program (H-Sw) were perfused in an isolated working rat-heart apparatus. Systolic blood pressure was approximately 100 mmHg in C and Sw and ...

In general, ranking entities (resources) on the Semantic Web (SW) is subject to importance, relevance, and query length. Few existing SW search systems cover all of these aspects. Moreover, many existing efforts simply reuse the technologies from conventional Information Retrieval (IR), which are not designed for SW data. This paper proposes a ranking mechanism, which includes all three categor...

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Under today’s highly complex and dynamic business environment, external data (most often issued from web) need to be included in traditional On-Line Analytical Processing (OLAP) analysis so that decision-makers would be well-informed before making effective decision. Including external web data requires knowing the exact semantic meaning in order to use the right information at the right time. ...

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SW-WL'03 is the first edition of the workshop " Semantic Web for Web-based learning. Implications in the area of educational information systems ». The emerging Semantic Web presents exciting new possibilities for uses of learning technology. The SW-WL'03 papers include papers that are primarily concerned with topics on applications of the Semantic Web technology for education. In section 1 (on...