BACKGROUND A "saddle-shaped" mitral annulus with an optimal ratio between annular height and commissural diameter may reduce leaflet and chordal stress and is purported to be conserved across mammalian species. Whether annuloplasty rings maintain this relationship is unknown. METHODS AND RESULTS Twenty-three adult sheep underwent implantation of radiopaque markers on the left ventricle and mi...

the aim of this paper is to generalize the‎‎notion of pseudo-almost valuation domains to arbitrary‎ ‎commutative rings‎. ‎it is shown that the classes of chained rings‎ ‎and pseudo-valuation rings are properly contained in the class of‎ ‎pseudo-almost valuation rings; also the class of pseudo-almost‎ ‎valuation rings is properly contained in the class of quasi-local‎ ‎rings with linearly ordere...

For a ring endomorphism $alpha$ and an $alpha$-derivation $delta$, we introduce a concept, so called skew $pi$-Armendariz ring, that is a generalization of both $pi$-Armendariz rings, and $(alpha,delta)$-compatible skew Armendariz rings. We first observe the basic properties of skew $pi$-Armendariz rings, and extend the class of skew $pi$-Armendariz rings through various ring extensions. We nex...

statement of the problem: implant-retained overdenture can improve the stability of dentures and prevent bone loss. overdenture-wearing patients need special hygiene care. purpose: the aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of various denture cleansers on the retention of dio orange o-rings. method and materials : in this experimental study, 40 dio orange o-rings were divided into 4 grou...

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Abstract The Lucy Mission is a NASA Discovery-class mission to send highly capable and robust spacecraft investigate seven primitive bodies near both the L 4 5 Lagrange points with Jupiter: Jupiter Trojan asteroids. These planetesimals from outer planetary system have been preserved since early in solar history. will fly by extensively study diverse selection of asteroids, including all recogni...

in this paper we find sufficient conditions on primitive inverse topological semigroup s under which: the inversion inv : (h(s)) (h(s)) is continuous; we show that every topologically periodic countable compact primitive inverse topological semigroups with closed h-classes is topologically isomorphic to an orthogonal sum p i2= bi (gi) of topological brandt extensions bi (gi) of countably compac...

The aim of this paper is to generalize the‎‎notion of pseudo-almost valuation domains to arbitrary‎ ‎commutative rings‎. ‎It is shown that the classes of chained rings‎ ‎and pseudo-valuation rings are properly contained in the class of‎ ‎pseudo-almost valuation rings; also the class of pseudo-almost‎ ‎valuation rings is properly contained in the class of quasi-local‎ ‎rings with linearly ordere...

the main aim of this article is to study (v,k,λ)-symmetric designs admitting a flag-transitive and point-primitive automorphism group g whose socle is psl(3,q). we indeed show that the only possible design satisfying these conditions is a desarguesian projective plane pg(2,q) and g > psl(3,q).

in this paper, we introduce the new notion of strongly j-clean rings associatedwith polynomial identity g(x) = 0, as a generalization of strongly j-clean rings. we denotestrongly j-clean rings associated with polynomial identity g(x) = 0 by strongly g(x)-j-cleanrings. next, we investigate some properties of strongly g(x)-j-clean.