Coronary angiography, cine left ventriculography, and the cardiovascular hemodynamics of 24 patients with left bundle branch block were studied. Seven patients were found to have significant coronary artery disease, always severe. Five had cardiomyopathy and seven had valvular disease. Only those with coronary artery disease or cardiomyopathy had abnormal left ventricular contraction patterns. ...

Tree search algorithms, such as branch-and-bound, are the most widely used tools for solving combinatorial and nonconvex problems. For example, they are the foremost method for solving (mixed) integer programs and constraint satisfaction problems. Tree search algorithms recursively partition the search space to find an optimal solution. In order to keep the tree size small, it is crucial to car...

A common method of managing the complexity of both technical and organizational relationships in a large software project is to use branches within the source code management system to partition the work into teams and tasks. We claim that the files modified on a branch are changed together in a cohesive way to accomplish some task such as adding a feature, fixing a related set of bugs, or impl...

Plant defenses against insect herbivores and necrotrophic pathogens are differentially regulated by different branches of the jasmonic acid (JA) signaling pathway. In Arabidopsis, the basic helix-loop-helix leucine zipper transcription factor (TF) MYC2 and the APETALA2/ETHYLENE RESPONSE FACTOR (AP2/ERF) domain TF ORA59 antagonistically control these distinct branches of the JA pathway. Feeding ...

Intel’s P6 processor (see 090202.PDF) is the first to use a two-level branch-prediction algorithm to improve accuracy. This algorithm, first published by Tse-Yu Yeh and Yale Patt, has the potential to push accuracy well beyond the 90% level achieved by the best processors today. As future processors look to improve performance by increasing the issue rate and/or extending the pipeline depth, th...

It has been demonstrated repeatedly that not much importance c attached to the prognostic significance of bundle branch block. Right I branch block has been considered to show a more favorable proj than left bundle branch block. However, the presence of right I branch block, either the typical or atypical form, alerts the physici the basic cardiac disease, particularly disease of the coronary c...