The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between intraluminal appearances of coronary plaques and left coronary bifurcation angle and plaque components using coronary CT virtual intravascular endoscopy (VIE). Fifty patients suspected of coronary artery disease undergoing coronary CT angiography were included in the study. The left bifurcation angle in patients with diseased left...

tūbā et le sens de la nuit  publié en 1987 est un roman de šahrnūs pārsipūr, la romancière contemporaine. ce roman se classe d’emblé, non seulement, parmi les romans d’apprentissage mais aussi, dans la lignée des romans-fleuves. nous ignorons si l’écrivaine a créé cette forme romanesque malgré elle ou si elle en était consciente. dans notre étude, nous essayerons, à l’aide d’une nouvelle lectur...

Certain steroids have been reported to enhance experimental viral infections, whereas others have little or no effect. Interference with the interferon system has been suggested as a possible mechanism for the viral infection-enhancing (VIE) activity of hormones. In the present study, steroids (prednisolone, progesterone, testosterone) which had no effect on MM virus infection demonstrated VIE ...

 Abstract—A novel diakoptic method based on volume integral equation (VIE) modeling of subsystems is proposed for 3-D electromagnetic analysis. The theoretical foundation of the method are the surface and volume equivalence principles, as it combines the VIE and surface integral equation (SIE) formulations, in conjunction with the method of moments (MoM). The method breaks the original structu...

This study was conducted to investigate the feasibility of using 3D virtual intravascular endoscopy (VIE) as a novel approach for characterization of calcified coronary plaques with the aim of differentiating superficial from deep calcified plaques, thus improving assessment of coronary stenosis.A total of 61 patients with suspected coronary artery disease were included in the study. Minimal lu...

Asthma can profoundly affect the quality of life of individuals with the disease. There are limited data on the quality of life of people with asthma in the Islamic Republic of Iran. This cross-sectional study aimed to evaluate quality of life in adults with asthma in Semnan using the 36-item short form health survey (SF-36). The effect of sociodemographic characteristics on quality of life sco...

BACKGROUND Oxidative stress has been related to hypo-response to erythropoiesis-stimulating agents (ESAs) in hemodialysis (HD) patients. The aim of this study was to verify whether vitamin E (ViE) on a synthetic polysulfone dialyzer can improve ESA responsiveness. METHODS This controlled, multicenter study involved 93 HD patients on stable ESA therapy, who were randomized to either ViE-coated...

Linear complexity iterative and log-linear complexity direct solvers are developed for the volume integral equation (VIE) based general large-scale electrodynamic analysis. The dense VIE system matrix is first represented by a new clusterbased multilevel low-rank representation. In this representation, all the admissible blocks associated with a single cluster are grouped together and represent...

A novel double-higher-order entire-domain volume integral equation (VIE) technique for efficient analysis of electromagnetic structures with continuously inhomogeneous dielectric materials is presented. The technique takes advantage of large curved hexahedral discretization elements—enabled by double-higher-order modeling (higher-order modeling of both the geometry and the current)—in applicati...

For randomly censored data, the authors propose a general class of semiparametricmedian residual life models. They incorporate covariates in a generalized linear form while leaving the baseline median residual life function completely unspecified. Despite the non-identifiability of the survival function for a given median residual life function, a simple and natural procedure is proposed to est...