OBJECTIVE Electrical velocimetry (EV) is a non-invasive method of continuous left cardiac output monitoring based on measurement of thoracic electrical bioimpedance. The objective was to validate EV by investigating the agreement in cardiac output measurements performed by EV and echocardiography. DESIGN In this prospective observational study, left ventricular output (LVO) was simultaneously...

ion level of program transformations from programming language expressions to reasoning about modules. It also improves the performance of the reconfiguration process, which requires only a few steps for each protocol layer passed by an event and thus scales up very well. Finally system updates can be handled much easier: the modification of a layer’s code only requires reproving the reconfigur...

The widespread commercial availability of plug-in Electric Vehicles (EVs) in recent years motivates policies to encourage EV adoption and infrastructure to cope with the increasing number of EVs. We present an agent-based EV ecosystem model that incorporates EV adoption and usage with spatial and temporal considerations and that can aid different EV industry stakeholders such as policymakers, u...

BACKGROUND/AIM Transient elastography is a relatively new, noninvasive method of measuring liver stiffness. This study aimed to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of transient elastography and other noninvasive methods for the diagnosis of esophageal varices (EV) in patients with cirrhosis. METHODS This cross-sectional study graded EV according to size in 145 consecutive patients with cirrhosis...

AIMS We examined the impact of enterovirus (EV) cardiac replication activity on the endomyocardial mitochondrial pathway in patients with acute myocarditis. METHODS AND RESULTS Levels of apoptotic cardiomyocytes were determined by TUNEL and ligation-mediated polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assays and EV replication activity was assessed by immunostaining of EV VP1 capsid protein in ventricula...

Human enterovirus B106 (EV-B106) is a recently identified member of enterovirus species B. In this study, we report the complete genomic characterization of an EV-B106 strain (148/YN/CHN/12) isolated from an acute flaccid paralysis patient in Yunnan Province, China. The new strain had 79.2-81.3% nucleotide and 89.1-94.8% amino acid similarity in the VP1 region with the other two EV-B106 strains...

A photoelectron spectroscopy study of the anionic model chromophore of the green fluorescent protein is presented. From the photoelectron spectra taken at 3.496 eV, 4.62 eV, and 6.15 eV the vertical and adiabatic detachment energies are determined to be 2.8 ± 0.1 eV and 2.6 ± 0.2 eV, respectively. The vertical detachment energy is higher than the S1← S0 absorption maximum (2.57 eV) and indicate...

Enterovirus (EV) detection by a new commercially available reverse transcription (RT)-PCR assay (Penter RT-PCR test) was compared with EV isolation from cell cultures and with EV detection by an in-house RT-PCR assay. Of the 54 cerebrospinal fluid specimens collected during a summer outbreak of aseptic meningitis, 52% were positive by cell culture versus 76% by in-house RT-PCR assay and 80% by ...

Emission spectra of avalanching n(+)p junctions manufactured in a standard CMOS technology with no process modifications were measured over a broad photon energy spectrum ranging from 0.8 eV to 2.8 eV at various temperatures. The temperature coefficients of the emission rates at different photon energies were determined. Below a photon energy of 1.35 eV the temperature coefficient of emission w...