OBJECTIVE 1) To evaluate the mid-term efficacy and safety of a permanent nitinol inferior vena cava (IVC) filter; 2) to evaluate filter effectiveness, filter stability and caval occlusion. MATERIALS AND METHODS A prospective evaluation of the TrapEase IVC filter was performed on 42 patients (eight men, 34 women) ranging in age from 22 to 78 years (mean age 66 years). All patients were ill wit...

conclusions parasitic contamination of fresh herbs sold in izeh may pose a health risk to consumers if eaten as unwashed or improperly washed. results parasitic pollution was detected in 3.5% of the examined samples, including cryptosporidium spp. oocyst (1.5%), giardia spp. cyst (1%), blastocystis spp. cyst (0.5%) and taenia spp. egg (0.5%). materials and methods four hundred samples of fresh ...

BACKGROUND There are few population-based data regarding the effectiveness of inferior vena cava filter use in the prevention of symptomatic pulmonary embolism. OBJECTIVE To determine the 1-year cumulative incidence of rehospitalization for venous thrombosis or pulmonary embolism among patients with thromboembolism treated with a vena cava filter compared with the incidence in a control popul...

To enhance the codigestion of degradation and improve biomethane production potential, sugarcane bagasse and filter mud were pretreated by sodium hydroxide NaOH 1 N at 100°C for 15, 30, and 45 minutes, respectively. Biomethane generation from 1-liter batch reactor was studied at mesophilic temperature (37 ± 1)°C, solid concentrations of 6%, and five levels of mixing proportion with and without ...

Based on symmetry of the maximally flat frequency response of a FIR notch filter the new design procedure is developed. The closed form solution provides direct computation of the frequency response, recursive computation of the impulse response coefficients, simple windowing technique, and an access to new implementation. Several examples are included. INTRODUCTION In order to remove a single ...

SIMULATION OF DUST CAKE BUILD-UP ON THE FILTER MEDIUM This section describes a physical model for cake and pressure build-up on candle filters. The model was aimed at investigating filtration operation and reverse pulse cleaning of the filter. It is useful to calculate the filter cake thickness and pressure drop along the filter candle. Figure 1 shows the schematic diagram of filter cake build-...

The concept of cyclic filter banks was introduced independently in Ref. [1] and [2], though in [1], a different nomenclature was used. “Cyclic filter banks” is a superset of the traditional non-cyclic filter banks, and readily suggest implementation of subband filtering through DFT. In this paper we show that the DFT implementation is also advantageous for the conventional FIR filter banks. The...

This note calculates the requirements on the anti-aliasing filter for the read-out of the fluorescence detector of the AUGER experiment. The filter order and its cut-off frequency are related to the error in amplitude reconstruction. 1 System transfert functions The Fluorescence Detector read-out channel consist of a current preamplifier followed by a low pass anti-aliasing filter and a samplin...

This paper presents an innovative active power filter design method to simultaneously compensate the current harmonics and reactive power of a nonlinear load. The power filter integrates a passive power filter which is a RL low-pass filter placed in series with the load, and an active power filter which comprises an RL in series with an IGBT based voltage source converter. The filter is assumed...

Filtering is useful for noise reduction and edge detections in volumes. With the release of general purpose parallel computing interfaces, opportunities for increases in performance arises. In this paper I will present four volume filters, implemented using OpenCL. The filters consists of: a box filter, a Gaussian filter, a median filter and a central difference filter. The two first are implem...