Tropical inhabitants are able to tolerate heat through permanent residence in hot and often humid tropical climates. The goal of this study was to clarify the peripheral mechanisms involved in thermal sweating pre and post exposure (heat-acclimatization over 10 days) by studying the sweating responses to acetylcholine (ACh), a primary neurotransmitter of sudomotor activity, in healthy subjects ...

Let g be a complex semisimple Lie algebra and let r ⊂ g be any reductive Lie subalgebra such that B|r is nonsingular where B is the Killing form of g. Let Z(r) and Z(g) be, respectively, the centers of the enveloping algebras of r and g. Using a Harish-Chandra isomorphism one has a homomorphism η : Z(g) → Z(r) which, by a well-known result of H. Cartan, yields the the relative Lie algebra cohom...

INTRODUCTION: Motion sensitized driven equilibrium (MSDE) prepared sequence has been proposed for fast black-blood vessel wall imaging (1, 2). Moreover, for detection of different kinds of plaques at the carotid artery wall, MSDE prepared 3D gradient echo sequence, optimized both for T1 and T2 contrasts, was proposed (3). This method allows wider anatomical coverage in short acquisition time co...

This thesis presents a powerful deductive-inductive resolution technique, by combining deductive theorem proving with inductive logic programming, for solving a new class of multi-agent problems—namely the collaborative logic programming (CollabLP) problems. In essence, the CollabLP formulation captures a wide range of problems in multi-agent settings where knowledge is typically distributed, p...

TI(N), SNR in CA f P for SNR in CA as SI(N)ISI(l) in ms SD compared to N=l muscle 691 1.36*0.17 1 469 1.393~ 0.24 0.34 0.91 346 1.39+0.29 0.62 0.82 272 1.46f0.21 0.10 0.75 224 1.47i0.23 0.06 0.68 190 1.45+0.24 0.11 0.64 A multi-slice acquisition technique was proposed for double inversionrecovery (DIR) black-blood imaging. The method utilizes short inversion time providing an acquisition of sev...

Background Coronary arterial wall imaging is a promising non-invasive tool for quantitative assessment of arterial remodeling. Conventional techniques mandate imaging during cardiac rest period as well as nulling the blood signal inside the arterial lumen in order to generate an appropriate lumen-wall contrast. These constraints limited the use of coronary wall imaging. Recently, phase-sensitiv...

Research has been devoted in the past few years to relevance feedback as an effective solution to improve performance of information retrieval systems. Relevance feedback refers to an interactive process that helps to improve the retrieval performance. In this paper we propose the use of relevance feedback to improve document image retrieval System (DIRS) performance. This paper compares a vari...

Background Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most common cardiac arrhythmia affecting more than 5 million people in North America and Europe. Radio-frequency ablation (RFA) is effective in symptomatic, drug refractory AF. Reported success rates of the procedure vary significantly with AF recurrences ranging from 25-40%. The transmural extent of left atrial (LA) wall injury is difficult to assess ...

With the maturation of the technology of Wavelength-Division-Multiplexing (WDM) in optical networks, the survivable design has become a key issue. In this paper, we propose a Segment Shared Protection Algorithm (SSPA), which is based on the reliability of the networks and the different levels of the fault tolerance requested by the users, to protect the single-link failure in WDM optical networ...