BACKGROUND During off-pump coronary artery bypass graft (OPCABG) surgery, a bloodless surgical field is mandatory for visualization and construction of optimal coronary anastomoses. Presently used temporary vascular occluders are known to cause endothelial dysfunction and vessel injury. The present prospective multicenter randomized clinical trial evaluates safety and efficacy of a novel thermo...

We assessed whether comparisons of thermoregulatory responses between groups unmatched for body mass and surface area (BSA) should be performed using a metabolic heat production (prod) in Watts or Watts per kilogram for changes in rectal temperature (ΔTre), and an evaporative heat balance requirement (Ereq) in Watts or Watts per square meter for local sweat rates (LSR). Two groups with vastly d...

[1] Lg, a regional seismic wave comprised of multiple shear wave reverberations trapped in the crustal waveguide, is important for magnitude estimation and source discrimination for monitoring nuclear testing treaties. In stable continental regions, Lg propagates with a group velocity of about 3.5 km/s and can often be observed at distances up to 4000 km. To better understand the absence of hig...

This paper introduces the study of LG-quadratic quotients exterior algebras, showing that they are Koszul, as in commutative case. We construct an example algebra is not G-quadratic and another Koszul but LG-quadratic. only second known first noncommutative.

The present paper concerns itself with the applications of statistical methods to some number-theoretic problems. Recent inrestigations of Erdiis and Wintrier ? have shown the importance of the notion of statistical independence in number theory ; the purpose of this paper is to emphasize this fact once again. It may be mentioned here that we get as a particular case of our main theorem the fol...

This paper exploits for the first time use of machine learning (ML) based techniques to identify complex structured light patterns under free space optics (FSO) jamming attacks secure FSO-based applications. Five M-ary modulation schemes, construed using Laguerre and Hermite Gaussian (LG HG) mode families, were used in this investigation. These include 8-ary LG, superposition-LG, 16-ary HG, LG ...

The "large" (LG/J) and "small" (SM/J) inbred mouse strains differ for a wide variety of traits related to body size and obesity. Ninety-three LG/J and SM/J mice were divided into two treatment categories and fed a moderately high-fat diet (21% kcal fat) or a low-fat diet (12% kcal fat) from weaning to necropsy. Strain differences in obesity-related traits and differential response to dietary fa...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) and vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) are up-regulated in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC). To investigate the levels of COX-2 and VEGF expression in chronic hepatitis (CH), cirrhosis, and HCC. METHODS The immunohistochemical expressions of COX-2 and VEGF were evaluated in tissues from patients with CH (n=95), cirrhosis (n=38), low-grade HCC (LG-...

Yeast flocculation is a phenomenon which is believed to result from an interaction between a lectin-like protein and a mannose chain located on the yeast cell surface. The FLO1 gene, which encodes a cell wall protein, is considered to play an important role in yeast flocculation, which is inhibited by mannose but not by glucose (mannose-specific flocculation). A new homologue of FLO1, named Lg-...