In this paper, we present a method to simulate and visualize blood flow through the human heart, using the reconstructed 4D motion of the endocardial surface of the left ventricle as boundary conditions. The reconstruction captures the motion of the full 3D surfaces of the complex features, such as the papillary muscles and the ventricular trabeculae. We use visualizations of the flow field to ...

The effects of the naturally occurring amino acid taurine (2-aminoethanesulphonic acid) on isometric force development were investigated using skinned muscle fibre preparations. In atrial and ventricular pig heart muscles, as well as in fibres of slow abdominal extensor muscle of crayfish, an increase of submaximal isometric force was observed in Ca2(+)-activated skinned fibre preparations at p...

Write{e cient memories (WEM) were introduced by Ahlswede/Zhang as a model for storing and updating information on a rewritable medium. We strengthen the capacity theorem by providing a full control of the rates of the spreads. Next we adress and settle the storage capacity region problem under the average costs constraint in the case of many users, who write on the memory in an arbitrary order,...

We introduce write{eecient memories (WEM) as a new model for storing and updating information on a rewritable medium. There is a cost ' : X X ! R 1 assigned to changes of letters.

Myosin binding protein-C (MyBP-C) exists in three major isoforms: slow skeletal, fast skeletal, and cardiac. While cardiac MyBP-C (cMyBP-C) expression is restricted to the heart in the adult, it is transiently expressed in neonatal stages of some skeletal muscles. However, it is unclear whether this expression is necessary for the proper development and function of skeletal muscle. Our aim was ...

Gastrointestinal helminthiasis in developing countries contributes to malnutrition and anemia. Diagnosis and treatment of helminthiasis, especially with low worm load is an unmet public health need in such settings. The infection may sometimes become manifest when a second pathology leads to purgation of the gastrointestinal tract. Two cases of helminthiasis are presented in which the infection...