OBJECTIVE Right axillary artery (AxA) perfusion, which can prevent cerebral embolism caused by retrograde perfusion via the femoral artery (FA), was used for selective cerebral perfusion (SCP) as well as cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) in aortic arch repair. We review the outcome of aortic arch surgery using SCP with right AxA perfusion to clarify its efficacy. METHOD Between 1998 and 2002, 120 ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the protective effect of Stauntonia chinensis polysaccharides (SCP) on carbon tetrachloride (CCl4) induced acute liver injuries in mice. METHODS KUNMING MICE WERE RANDOMLY DIVIDED INTO THREE GROUPS: the control group, the pathological model group, and the SCP group. The SCP group was further divided into three subgroups based on SCP treatment: Low dosage (50 mg/kg), m...

Individuals with spastic cerebral palsy (SCP) exhibit restricted joint range of motion and increased joint stiffness due to structural alterations of their muscles. Little is known about which muscle-tendon structures are responsible for these alterations. The aim of this study was to compare the passive mechanics of the ankle joint and medial gastrocnemius (MG) muscle in young adults with SCP ...

We examined the effects of self-regulation of slow cortical potentials (SCP) in nine children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) by focusing on the changes in electroencephalographic (EEG) shifts during SCP sessions. In SCP training, individuals learn to increase and decrease their cortical excitabilities (enhancement of negative and positive cortical shifts). To examine the e...

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This paper introduces a new model for consensus called federated Byzantine agreement (FBA). FBA achieves robustness through quorum slices—individual trust decisions made by each node that together determine system-level quorums. Slices bind the system together much the way individual networks’ peering and transit decisions now unify the Internet. We also present the Stellar Consensus Protocol (...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the exercise intensity and the physical fitness effect of shuttlecock playing. 18 normal body weight college students voluntarily participated in this study. They were randomly assigned to shuttlecock playing (SCP) and control groups. The SCP underwent a 15-week shuttlecock-playing program, but the control group did not receive any special exercise a...

Two difficulties arise when solving the set covering problem (SCP) with metaheuristic approaches: solution infeasibility and set redundancy. In this paper, we first present a review and analysis of the heuristic approaches that have been used in the literature to address these difficulties. We then present a new formulation that can be used to solve the SCP as an unconstrained optimization prob...

The $^{12}$C+$^{12}$C fusion reaction plays a significant role in the later phases of stellar evolution. For better understanding evolution involved, one must understand corresponding fusion-fission dynamics and characteristics. In present analysis, we have studied cross-section along with S-factor for this using well-known M3Y recently developed R3Y nucleon-nucleon (NN) potential relativistic ...

The combination of a Monte Carlo (MC) sampling the configurational space with time dependent-density functional theory (TD-DFT) to estimate vertical excitations energies has been applied compute absorption spectra family merocyanine dyes in both their monomeric and dimeric forms. These results have compared those obtained using static DFT/TD-DFT approach as well available experimental spectra. ...