mediate-risk scores from the Global Registry of Acute Coronary Events (GRACE) revealed little difference in the primary outcome in terms of the strategies (7.7% early, 6.7% delayed; P = 0.43); however, the difference favoring the early strategy was significant for the group with high GRACE risk scores (14.1% early vs. 21.6% delayed; P = 0.0097). There were no significant differences in major bl...

Since March 2002, the GRACE mission provides monthly global maps of geoid time-variations. These new data carry information on the continental water storage, including snow mass variations, with a ground resolution of ~600-700 km. We have computed monthly snow mass solutions from the inversion of the 22 GRACE geoids (04/2002-05/2004). The inverse approach developed here allows to separate the s...

This paper introduces GRACE – the Global Replication and Consistency Environment – a layered architecture deployed on Distributed Hash Tables (DHT), in which the tension between availability, consistency and performance is mitigated both by providing support for relaxed consistency semantics and by the DHT technology. We describe how the benefits of DHTs, such as scalable lookup and ease of man...

A new methodology is proposed to estimate changes in the Earth's dynamic oblateness ([Formula: see text] or equivalently, [Formula: see text]) on a monthly basis. The algorithm uses monthly Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) gravity solutions, an ocean bottom pressure model and a glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA) model. The resulting time series agree remarkably well with a soluti...

BACKGROUND Comparisons between dedicated risk scores in patients with ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention (pPCI) in real-world clinical practice are scarce. The aim of this study was to assess the diagnostic performance of the Global Registry of Acute Coronary Events (GRACE), Primary Angioplasty in Myocardial Infarction (PAMI)...

BACKGROUND When performing coronary angiography in patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS), the anatomical extent of coronary disease usually prevails in the prognostic reasoning. It has not yet been proven if clinical data should be accounted for in risk stratification together with anatomical data. OBJECTIVE To test the hypothesis that clinical data increment the prognostic value of ana...

[1] Groundwater is a primary hydrological reservoir of the Great Lakes Water Basin (GLB), which is an important region to both Canada and US in terms of culture, society and economy. Due to insufficient observations, there is a knowledge gap about groundwater storage variation and its interaction with the Great Lakes. The objective of this study is to examine the detectability of the groundwate...

This paper is an introduction to the short story and science fiction prototype The Machinery of Love and Grace. We cover a brief overview of the goals of science fiction prototyping as well as an example for how both Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud used a very similar process to achieve greatness in their work. Finally we look into the specific science behind the story The Machinery of Love a...