OBJECTIVE Regarding neo-aortic valve regurgitation (neo-AR) after the arterial switch operation (ASO), the 'trap-door' technique was supposed to be a risk factor due to a distortion of the sinotubular junction (STJ) geometry. Here we report our results of the 'trap-door' technique with a special emphasis on root geometry including the ratio of STJ to annulus. METHODS From August 1991 to March...

The orbital and absolute magnitude distribution of the near-Earth objects (NEOs) is difficult to compute, partly because only a modest fraction of the entire NEO population has been discovered so far, but also because the known NEOs are biased by complicated observational selection effects. To circumvent these problems, we created a model NEO population which was fit to known NEOs discovered or...

The amygdala has emerged as an important forebrain modulator of arousal. Acetylcholine plays a role in the regulation of sleep and wakefulness, particularly rapid eye movement sleep (REM). The major cholinergic input to the amygdala comes from the basal forebrain, a region primarily linked to wakefulness. We examined sleep and the encephalogram for 8 h following bilateral microinjections into t...

The series Ca' Foscari Japanese Studies , strong in the tradition well-established at Dipartimento di Studi sull’Asia e sull’Africa Mediterranea, aims to be an international benchmark for studies on Japan. It collects publications of high scientific rigor aimed documenting most original and theoretically advanced developments this field, ranging from classicism modernity. Its highly multidiscip...

Mouse cone photoreceptors, like those of most mammals including humans, express cone opsins derived from two ancient families: S-opsin (gene Opn1sw) and M-opsin (gene Opn1mw). Most C57Bl/6 mouse cones co-express both opsins, but in dorso-ventral counter-gradients, with M-opsin dominant in the dorsal retina and S-opsin in the ventral retina, and S-opsin 4-fold greater overall. We created a mouse...

Planning systems such as FF-Metric [3] and SAPA [2] are able to deal with numerical knowledge to solve resources constraints added to the symbolic planning domain. This paper presents the NGP (Numerical Graph Planning) that is able to solve totally numerical and/or symbolic planning domains. We propose a new action representation to support numerical conditions and effects, where we allow a non...

The aim of this study is to propose a method for the evaluation of railway passengers’ comfort in relationship to temperature, noise, and vibration. Estimated the single comfort for every sensation considered, the global comfort is evaluated with the Hyper-Sphere Method proposed by Corriere & Lo Bosco [1]. The humanvehicle-infrastructure-environment variables which influence comfort are individ...

The mask, which is even older than the history of theater, has been associated with theater and become its symbol. In this study, it explained how mask was used for first time, played a role in historical process what purpose intention for, again Contemporary after period that we can call "pause mask". Starting Classicism making inferences about why masks were less or not at all following perio...

No collection of laws from the iNeo-Assyrian period is known to us. If a text of this kind had ever existed, it seems highly likely that it would have been part of Assurbanipal's famous library in Nineveh. But neither in Nineveh nor in twenty-three excavated sites located in different parts of the empire have archaeologists have succeeded in unearthing so much as a fragment of such a text. In a...