OBJECTIVE To assess the use of dobutamine magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) as a preoperative predictor of myocardial functional recovery after revascularisation, comparing wall motion and radial wall thickening analyses by observer and semi-automated edge detection. PATIENTS 25 men with multivessel coronary disease and resting wall motion abnormalities were studied with preoperative rest and ...

Laboratory studies were conducted to compare the relative fitness of clodinafop-propargyl herbicide resistant Lolium rigidum accessions with their clodinafop-propargyl susceptible counterparts in 2014. Factors evaluated were Lolium populations at constant salinity stress (0, 5, 10, 15, 20 and 25 dS cm2) and water stress (0, -3, -6, -9, -12 and -15 bar). The maximum germination in salinity stres...

We study the semi-classical limit of the nonlinear Schrödinger-Poisson (NLSP) equation for initial data of the WKB type. The semi-classical limit in this case is realized in terms of a density-velocity pair governed by the Euler-Poisson equations. Recently we have shown in [ELT, Indiana Univ. Math. J., 50 (2001), 109–157], that the isotropic Euler-Poisson equations admit a critical threshold ph...

During the last two decades, active and semi-active control of civil engineering structures has made rapid progress in Japan. This technology has become widely used in earthquake engineering design, and more than 50 control systems have already been applied to buildings in Japan. The 1995 Hyogo-ken Nanbu Earthquake opened a door to positive development of semi-actively-controlled buildings agai...

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