INTRODUCTION Comprehensive stroke systems of care include routing to the nearest designated stroke center hospital, bypassing non-designated hospitals. Routing protocols are implemented at the state or county level and vary in qualification criteria and determination of destination hospital. We surveyed all counties in the state of California for presence and characteristics of their prehospita...

Wen-Kwei Chen,1 Ingrid Y Liu,2 Ya-Ting Chang,1,3 Yong-Cyuan Chen,1 Chih-Cheng Chen,1,3 Chen-Tung Yen,3 Hee-Sup Shin,4 and Chien-Chang Chen1,3,5 1Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan, 2Institute of Human Genetics, Tzu Chi University, Hualien 97004, Taiwan, 3Institute of Zoology, National Taiwan University, Taipei 10617, Taiwan, 4Center for Neural Science, Korea...

Let (xn) ⊂ R d be a uniformly separated sequence which forms a Fourier frame for PWB2 , the space of square-integrable functions on R d whose Fourier transforms vanish outside the Euclidean unit ball B2. Given λ > 0 and f ∈ PWB2 , there is a unique sequence (aj) in l2 such that the function Iλ(f)(x) := X aje −λ‖x−xj‖ 2 2 , x∈R d , is continuous and square integrable on R, and satisfies the inte...

The field of separate rippling transforms has been attracting substantial interest partially as a result of the rippling analysis being capable of modeling an indication into a specific set of basic functions equipped with sensible spectral properties. Rippling analysis has been accustomed observe system non-linearities by creating use of its localization feature. DWT-based multi-resolution ana...

OBJECTIVES To assess which socio-economic indicator best predicts overweight in the European Union: educational attainment, occupational class or household income. SETTING The prevalence of overweight is strongly related to socio-economic position. The relative importance of different socio-economic dimensions is uncertain, and might vary between countries. DESIGN AND SUBJECTS Cross-section...

This study quantifies the role of lake morphometry and submerged macrophyte beds on the accumulation of sediments in the littoral zone. Stable Pb, a historical marker of lacustrine sediments in southern Quebec, was used to date the sediments (;110 yr) and to calculate three long-term sediment accumulation rates (SARs) in Lake Memphremagog (located in Quebec and Vermont). The anthropogenic Pb bu...

Protein structure analysis is one of the most important research issues in the post-genomic era, and faster and more accurate query data structures for such 3-D structures are highly desired for research on proteins. This paper proposes a new data structure for indexing protein 3-D structures. For strings, there are many efficient indexing structures such as suffix trees, but it has been consid...