Equal-arm interferometric detectors of gravitational radiation allow phase measurements many orders of magnitude below the intrinsic phase stability of the laser injecting light into their arms. This is because the noise in the laser light is common to both arms, experiencing exactly the same delay, and thus cancels when it is differenced at the photo detector. In this situation, much lower lev...

BACKGROUND Thought disturbances are commonly associated with psychiatric disorders, especially schizophrenia. Our aim was to clarify whether thought disorders are only stable at certain severity levels and in the presence of certain schizophrenia factors of the Thought Disorder Index (TDI) scale. Furthermore, we also examined the significance of genetic status and the psychiatric disorder for t...

The exposure of men to the nematocide dibromochloropropane (DBCP) has caused prolonged oligo- and azoospermia, which occasionally reverses spontaneously. We recently demonstrated that in testes of rats treated with a dose of DBCP sufficient to reduce the percentage of tubules producing differentiating germ cells (tubule differentiation index, TDI) to 20%, the tubules lacking differentiating cel...

BACKGROUND Postoperative atrial fibrillation (POAF) is a common complication of cardiac surgery and may result in stroke, heart failure and poor prognosis. This study evaluated a novel index of total atrial conduction time derived from the P-wave onset (lead II) to the peak A' wave on tissue Doppler imaging (PA-TDI duration) in patients undergoing mitral valve surgery (MVS) for mitral valve reg...

This paper addresses how to perform cost-sensitive responses to routing attacks on (Mobile Ad Hoc Networks) MANET. There have been numerous research efforts on securing MANET protocols using cryptography or intrusion detection technique. However, little literature on MANET intrusion response is addressed. Most research on automated response for wired networks focuses on how to select the best r...

Synthetic LISA, developed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, is a C++/Python package to simulate the LISA science process at the level of scientific and technical requirements. It generates synthetic time series of the LISA fundamental noises, as filtered through all the Time-Delay-Interferometric (TDI) observables; it provides a streamlined module to compute the TDI responses to gravitational w...

BACKGROUND Right ventricular (RV) dysfunction complicates advanced left ventricular (LV) heart failure (HF) and contributes to a poor prognosis. Levosimendan is a positive inotropic agent improving cardiac contractility without increasing myocardial oxygen consumption in HF. AIM To evaluate the effect of levosimendan therapy on RV systolic function, by using derived tissue Doppler imaging (TD...

ATX is a secreted enzyme that produces lysophosphatindic acid (LPA) in plasma. For several years investigators have characterized endogenous factors that regulate ATX expression and compartmentalization. However many questions remain unanswered and this article highlights our recent finding that autotaxin (ATX) is readily induced by toxic environmental chemicals. LPA binds G-protein coupled rec...

Diisocyanates (dNCOs) are low molecular weight chemical sensitizers that react with autologous proteins to produce neoantigens. dNCO-haptenated proteins have been used as immunogens for generation of dNCO-specific antibodies and as antigens to screen for dNCO-specific antibodies in exposed individuals. Detection of dNCO-specific antibodies in exposed individuals for diagnosis of dNCO asthma has...

BACKGROUND Echocardiography is a key screening tool in the diagnostic algorithm of pulmonary hypertension (PH). In addition, tissue doppler imaging (TDI) is a promising method for the noninvasive estimation of pulmonary artery pressure (PAP). OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to validate the accuracy of measuring the time from the beginning of the right ventricular isovolumetric contractio...