Tracheal intubation and direct laryngoscopy are considered as the most critical event during administration of general anaesthesia. Dexmedetomidine is an alfa-2 adrenergic agonist use for control of haemodynamic response to laryngoscopy and tracheal intubation. Our study consisted 60 patients of ASA grade I or II, scheduled for elective gynaecological, general and ENT surgery, divided into two ...

Although modulation of hippocampal synaptic plasticity by neurotrophins or growth factors has recently become an extensively investigated subject, there are no reports arguing for the contribution of the transforming growth factor (TGF)-beta superfamily. In the present study, we examined the effect of activin, a member of the TGF-beta superfamily, on long-term potentiation (LTP) of the dentate ...

We consider basic algebraic constructions associated with an abstract pre-operad C (Sec. 2), such as a ⌣-algebra (Sec. 3), total composition • (Sec. 4), pre-coboundary operator δ (Sec. 5) and tribraces {·, ·, ·} (Sec. 6). Main result of the present paper is the Main Theorem (Sec. 6). By defining (see degree notations in Sec. 2) a derivation deviation (Definition 6.2) of the pre-coboundary opera...

Purpose: To present an application of the anisotropic diffusion (AD) method to improve the accuracy of the functional images of perfusion parameters such as cerebral blood flow (CBF), cerebral blood volume (CBV) and mean transit time (MTT) generated from cerebral CT perfusion studies using multi-detector row CT (MDCT). Materials and Methods: Continuous scans (1 sec/rotation ×60 sec) consisting ...

In this document, we provide supplementary material for our NIPS 2014 paper “Zero-Shot Recognition with Unreliable Attributes”. Sec 1 shows how unlearnable attributes are avoided by our method. Sec 2 discusses the details of the signature uncertainty model introduced in Sec 3.2.3 of the paper. Sec 3 gives additional details for our controlled noise experiments (Sec 4.1 of the paper). Sec 4 list...

O presente artigo-ensaio tem por objetivo apontar algumas notas que possibilitam perceber a ação da vida de Dom Bosco, isto é, sua forma atuar, como sendo fruto compreensão um homem entendeu o Verbo Encarnado, Deus encarnado na realidade concreta cada pessoa humana, não alheio aos sofrimentos e dilemas sociais. Para responder tal objetivo, método adotado para esta pesquisa será dedutivo-indutiv...

This study was conducted to establish the values for optimal fixed scan delays and diagnostic scan delays associated with the bolus-tracking technique using various contrast material injection durations in canine abdominal multi-phase computed tomography (CT). This study consisted of two experiments employing the crossover method. In experiment 1, three dynamic scans at the porta hepatis were p...

In this section, we describe more implementation details of our approach. Especially, we provide more details of: (i) the practical categorical-level re-labeling (Sec. 3.1 of the main paper), (ii) the partitioning protocol (Sec. 3.1 of the main paper), (iii) the initialization process used to get convergence from the VGG-16 network (used in Sec. 5 of the main paper) and (iv) the description of ...