Evidence for the long period of a sustainable function thermoplastic gel electrolyte (TPGE) consists polyethylene glycol (PEG)/I2/I- in propylene carbonate (PC) was recorded. The studied photoactive assembly PBTH/FTO/TPGE I2/I-/Platinized FTO. study showed that regenerates expected photoelectrochemical (PEC) quantities such as photocurrent, and other dielectric properties with infrequent use th...

A 52-year-old Japanese man presented for evaluation and treatment of rectal cancer. Screening computed tomography revealed pancreatic arteriovenous malformations (P-AVMs) and abnormally expanded inferior mesenteric vein (IMV) that resulted from P-AVMs. One-stage surgery for rectal cancer was dangerous so we first performed distal pancreatectomy to cure P-AVM and thus normalize the abnormally ex...

Scene understanding requires reasoning about both what we can see and what is occluded. We offer a simple and general approach to infer labels of occluded background regions. Our approach incorporates estimates of visible surrounding background, detected objects, and shape priors from transferred training regions. We demonstrate the ability to infer the labels of occluded background regions in ...

Duplex ultrasound is currently used both for screening and for preoperative assessment of the carotid arteries and has completely replaced carotid angiography for the latter purpose in many institutions. The study aimed to identify resistivity index abnormalities in the common carotid arteries in patients with occluded or severely stenosed internal carotid arteries. Sixteen patients with severe...

A partially occluded image consists of a set of objects where some may be partially occluded by others. Validating occluded images distinguishes whether a given image can be covered by the members of a finite set of objects, where both the image and the object range over identical alphabet. The algorithm presented here validates a one-dimensional image x of length n, over a given set of objects...

BACKGROUND The prone sleeping position, particularly in prematurely born infants, is associated with an increased risk of sudden infant death syndrome. A possible mechanism is an impaired ability to respond to respiratory compromise. The hypothesis that the ventilatory response to a carbon dioxide (CO(2)) challenge in convalescent, prematurely born infants would be lower in the prone compared w...

The incidence of major complications after percutaneous coronary angioplasty (PTCA) of a totally occluded artery was assessed retrospectively. A total of 1649 PTCA procedures were analyzed. After exclusion of procedures for acute myocardial infarction or total occlusion that resulted from restenosis, 90 patients were selected. Forty-four patients (49%) had stable angina and 46 (51%) had unstabl...

OBJECTIVE To assess effects on left ventricular (LV) function and on long term clinical outcome of late percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) of a chronically occluded infarct related artery. METHODS 65 patients who underwent PTCA a mean (SD) of 6.0 (1.2) months after a previous myocardial infarction were divided in two groups according to dilated artery patency status after P...

We propose a learning-based framework for inferring the 3D pose of a person from monocular image sequences. We generate a silhouette from each input image via a robust background subtraction algorithm, and compute the corresponding shape context descriptor using the shape context algorithm. We compute the weighted average of neighbor poses in a database to estimate the positions of different bo...

The visual system rapidly completes a partially occluded figure. We probed the completion process by using priming in combination with neuroimaging techniques. Priming leads to more efficient visual processing and thus a reduction in neural activity in relevant brain areas. These areas were studied with high spatial resolution and temporal accuracy with focus on early perceptual processing. We ...