Three-dimensional echocardiography (3DE) and speckle tracking echocardiography (STE) have recently applied as imaging techniques to accurately evaluate left atrial (LA) size, anatomy and function. 3DE and off-line quantification softwares, have allowed, in comparison to magnetic resonance imaging, the most time-efficient and accurate method of LA volume quantification. STE provides a non-Dopple...

allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation is used in the treatment of patients suffering from hematologic and non-hematologic disorders, but the application is limited by the identification of a suitable donor. umbilical cord blood (ucb) is an alternative source of hematopoietic stem cell (hsc) transplantation. despite all advantages, the limited cell dose is one of the  major obstacle...

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We present optimal embeddings of an n-node complete binary tree in a three-dimensional or a two-dimensional grid when k, the size of one of the dimensions of the grid, is given. For the three-dimensional case we show how to obtain, for any k in the range [1, n/2], a layout of O(n+k logn) volume. The same bound is shown to hold for the two-dimensional case when k is in the range [log n , n/2]. W...