Two studies documented the American English usage frequencies for ninety-seven nouns that occur with sentence complements (e.g., "rumor," "The rumor that the student cheated..."). An established usage preference methodology was used (see Connine, Ferreira, Jones, Clifton, & Frazier, 1984; Kennison, 1999). In Study 1, participants completed short fragments that did not contain the overt compleme...

Background: P wave dispersion (PWD) is defined as the difference between the maximum P wave duration (Pmax) and the minimum P wave duration (Pmin) in 12-leads of the surface electrocardiography. The aim of this study was to evaluate the values of PWD during atrial fibrillation (AF) after acute myocardial infarction (AMI). Methods: We prospectively evaluated atrial rhythms of 350 patients (251 m...

Background: Besides their mutagenic, carcinogenic, and teratogenic effects, Aflatoxins (AFs) also act as the main contributor to hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) which is known as the most common primary liver cancer worldwide. The main aim of this study was risk estimation of HCC due to exposure to aflatoxins in maize from Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Methods: As a model, maize samples were taken fro...

The optimal catheter ablation approach for longstanding persistent atrial fibrillation (AF) remains elusive despite significant advances made in our understanding of this arrhythmia. A recent systematic review highlighted the significant variation in procedural success rate both within and between techniques, necessitating repeat ablation procedures and anti-arrhythmic drugs to achieve improved...

Cardiovascular Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown, MA, USA; Division of Preventive Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; Section of Cardiology, Evans Department of Medicine, Boston University School of Medicine, Framingham, MA, USA; Cardiac Arrhythmia Service, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; and Preventive Medicine Section, Whitaker ...

The model theory of metric structures ([?]) was successfully applied to analyze ultrapowers of C*-algebras in [?] and [?]. Since important classes of separable C*-algebras, such as UHF, AF, or nuclear algebras, are not elementary (i.e., not characterized by their theory—see [?, §6.1]), for a moment it seemed that model theoretic methods do not apply to these classes of C*-algebras. We prove res...

For a generic set in the Teichmüller space, we construct a covariant functor with the range in a category of the operator AF -algebras. The functor maps isomorphic Riemann surfaces to the stably isomorphic AF algebras. Our construction is based on a Hodge theory for measured foliations, elaborated by Hubbard, Masur and Thurston. As an application, we consider the following two problems: (i) a c...

background: atrial fibrillation (af) is one of the most common arrhythmias after coronary artery bypass graft (cabg) surgery. af can result in hemodynamic instability, thromboembolic events, increase the perioperative myocardial infarction, congestive heart failure, stroke, more length of hospital stay (lohs) and cost of treatment. the aim of this study was to evaluate the independent effect of...

background: p wave dispersion (pwd) is defined as the difference between the maximum p wave duration (p max ) and the minimum p wave duration (p min ) in 12-leads of the surface electrocardiography. the aim of this study was to evaluate the values of pwd during atrial fibrillation (af) after acute myocardial infarction (ami).   methods: we prospectively evaluated atrial rhythms of 350 patients ...