BACKGROUND Silent cerebral events (SCE) have been identified on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in asymptomatic patients after atrial fibrillation (AF) ablation. Procedural determinants influencing the risk for SCE still remain unclear. OBJECTIVE Comparing the risk for SCE depending on exchanges of catheters (ExCath) over a single transseptal sheath. METHODS 88 Patients undergoing pulmonar...

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES This study investigated the antioxidant activities and hepatoprotective effects of Schisandra chinensis Baillon extract (SCE) against tert-butyl hydroperoxide (t-BHP)-induced oxidative hepatic damage in rats. MATERIALS/METHODS Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats were pretreated with SCE (300, 600, and 1,200 mg/kg BW) or saline once daily for 14 consecutive days. On day 14, each ani...

The Survey of Consumer Expectations (SCE) infers respondents’ inflation expectations from density forecasts. Using numeracy data and tests for coherence among 117,000 respondents to the SCE, I find that forecasts suffer non-negligible reporting bias selective nonresponse. A simple verbal question collected by SCE suffers neither these deficiencies so has better properties deliver an accurate sn...

Papers published in Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Discussions are under open-access review for the journal Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Abstract Introduction Conclusions References Tables Figures ◭ ◮ ◭ ◮ Back Close Full Screen / Esc Printer-friendly Version Interactive Discussion EGU Abstract A Regional Water Resources study was performed at basins within and draining to the Basque...

An important goal of spatially distributed hydrologic modeling is to provide estimates of streamflow (and river levels) at any point along the river system. To encourage collaborative research into appropriate levels of model complexity, the value of spatially distributed data, and methods suitable for model development and calibration, the US National Weather Service Hydrology Laboratory (NWSH...

Abstract The differential evolution (DE) algorithm is an efficient random search based on swarm intelligence for solving optimization problems. It has the advantages of easy implementation, fast convergence, strong ability and good robustness. However, performance DE very sensitive to design different operators setting control parameters. To solve these key problems, this paper proposes improve...

The present study describes the establishment of both Band T-cell lines from the peripheral blood cells of two Bloom's syn drome (BS) patients and one healthy female by using EpsteinBarr (EBV) and adult T-cell leukemia viruses (ATLV). The cell lines from normal and BS subjects exhibited cell surface markers compatible with Band T-cell origin; in addition, the BS Band T-cell lines retained the o...

Proper management of solar energy as an effective renewable source is high importance toward sustainable harvesting. This paper offers a novel sophisticated method for predicting irradiance (SIr) from environmental conditions. To this end, efficient metaheuristic technique, namely electromagnetic field optimization (EFO), employed optimizing neural network. algorithm quickly mines publicly avai...

The Khoy Ophiolitic Complex (KOC) as a part of Tethyan, Izmir-Ankara- Erzincan and Bitlis-Zagros sutures of South East (SE) Turkey is broadly exposed around Khoy region (NW Iran). This complex comprises dismembered fragments of mantle lithosphere, obducted oceanic lithosphere and parts of volcanic arc remnants. The Khoy Ophiolitic Complex can be structurally divided into two major eastern and w...