Although there is evidence that left ventricular (LV) function is genetically controlled, the contribution of familial factors to variation and covariation of LV diastolic filling, contractility, and structure is unknown. Single- and cross-trait sibling correlations were estimated using bivariate familial correlation models in 200 white (400 pairs) and 374 black (539 pairs) hypertensive sibship...

The aim of this study was to assess the effect of the quality of the coronal restoration and the root filling on the success of endodontic treatment. Patients treated at Kuwait University Dental Clinics (KUDC) from 2003 to 2014 were contacted by telephone calls. Demographic data and clinical records of patients, including age, gender, the tooth number, and medical history were recorded. Each pa...

PLCs are used in many real world applications. In any industry to achieve automation PLC is the first choice. Traditional methods of bottle filling is time consuming and expensive. This method involved placing of bottles onto a conveyor belt and filling only one bottle at a time. Filling is a task that carried out by a machine which packages liquid products such as cold drinks, water or milk et...

AIMS To evaluate the relationships between measures of left ventricular (LV) filling dynamics at cadmium-zinc-telluride (CZT) imaging and indexes of LV diastolic function at transthoracic echocardiography. METHODS AND RESULTS Two hundred and forty-seven patients underwent myocardial perfusion imaging at rest and after stress with a low-dose CZT protocol and a baseline transthoracic echocardio...

While a large number of fractional quantized Hall states have been discovered in the lowest Landau level, such states become increasingly rare in higher Landau levels. Few quantized Hall states have been observed in the first Landau level (Landau level filling factor 2 ≤ ν < 4) and no such states have so far been found for filling factors ν ≥ 4. Correspondingly, the role of electron-electron in...

This paper presents the time complexity of two algorithms that update space-filling curves of adaptively refined domains. The Modified Hilbert (space-filling) Curve was proposed to traverse square-shaped adaptive-refined meshes. Whereas, the Sierpiński-like (space-filling) Curve was proposed in order to traverse triangular-shaped adaptive-refined meshes. Those curves are variations of the names...

This Research in Team workshop focused on several problems in the theory of exceptional Dehn fillings in 3dimensional topology. Dehn filling is the construction in which you take a 3-manifoldM , with a distinguished torus boundary component T , and glue a solid torus V to M via some homeomorphism from ∂V to T . The resulting manifold depends only on the isotopy class (slope) α on T that is iden...

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is an extremely common arrhythmia with important consequences and presently suboptimal therapeutic options.1 A great deal of research has been performed to understand the detailed mechanisms of AF, with the hope that a better appreciation of the fundamental determinants of arrhythmogenesis will lead to the development of novel, more successful treatment possibilities.2

We present filling as a type of spatial subdivision problem similar to covering and packing. Filling addresses the optimal placement of overlapping objects lying entirely inside an arbitrary shape so as to cover the most interior volume. In n-dimensional space, if the objects are polydisperse n-balls, we show that solutions correspond to sets of maximal n-balls. For polygons, we provide a heuri...