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A valuable experimental method in studying the band structure of metals and alloys is the measurement of the NMR shift of suitable nuclei with respect to a reference signal, the Knight shift (K), see e.g. [1]. Metal-hydrogen systems are an interesting group of metallic solids. The measurement of the proton Knight shift (AH) in metals, however, is somewhat difficult because of its small magnitud...

The USNS Mercy, one of the two hospital ships in the United States Navy, has provided disaster relief and humanitarian assistance for multiple natural disasters around the world. As a self-sustaining 1000-bed hospital, the USNS Mercy provides a full complement of surgical and medical capabilities to care for the sick and injured in a mobile platform environment. This article describes the recen...

Schedulers in randomly timed games can be classified as to whether they use timing information or not. We consider continuous-time Markov decision processes (CTMDPs) and define a hierarchy of positional (P) and historydependent (H) schedulers which induce strictly tighter bounds on quantitative properties on CTMDPs. This classification into time abstract (TA), total time (TT) and fully time-dep...

The CardioWest Total Artificial Heart (CW-TAH) is a pneumatically driven pump that completely replaces the patient’s native ventricles orthotopically. The device weighs 160 g and consists of two artificial ventricles, four Medtronic Hall tilting disk valves, two membranes, and two drivelines tunneled through the skin, which connect the ventricles to an external console generating pulsatile flow...

Uterus Didelphys, a Congenital anomaly of uterus with a soft vertical vaginal septum reported to the Gynec OPD with complaint of irregular post menopausal bleeding and offensive vaginal discharge. On examination, found to have two uterus and two cervices with a soft vertical vaginal septum and endocervical polyp of 5x3 cm size, was found in one of the cervix which was pedunculated and bleeding ...