Pulmonary artery (PA) impedance provides detailed information on right ventricular (RV) afterload in pulmonary hypertension (PH). This study aimed to examine PA impedance in a rat model of monocrotaline-induced PH (MCT-PH) and to develop an experimental system for in vivo loading of pathological PA impedance on the RV of normal rats. PA impedance was quantified in normal (n= 10) and MCT-PH rats...

In this paper, we compute the scattering matrix for the Hilbert modular group over any number field K. We then express the determinant of the scattering matrix as a ratio of completed Dedekind zeta functions associated to the Hilbert class field of K. This generalizes work of Efrat and Sarnak [ES] in the imaginary quadratic case.

Distribution entropy (DistEn) is a recently developed measure of complexity that is used to analyse heart rate variability (HRV) data. Its calculation requires two input parameters-the embedding dimension m, and the number of bins M which replaces the tolerance parameter r that is used by the existing approximation entropy (ApEn) and sample entropy (SampEn) measures. The performance of DistEn c...