Abstract Background Serious cardiac arrhythmias [atrial fibrillation/flutter (AFF), and ventricular tachycardia/fibrillation (VTF)] are associated with adverse outcomes in general population of patients hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). Purpose We aimed to evaluate the impact such rhythm abnormalities on in-hospital adults HCM. Methods The National Inpatient Sample reported 45,305 admissions f...

Abstract. Flexible free standing polymer electrolyte films have been successfully prepared using a blend of poly(vinylidene fluoride-co-hexafluoropropylene) (PVDF-HFP) and poly(vinyl chloride) (PVC) doped with lithium perchlorate (LiClO4). The conductivity of the film was influenced by salt concentration and the degree of crystallinity. An optimum room temperature conductivity obtained was 2.10...

این پژوهش با الهام گرفتن از نتایج یک طرح مطالعاتی کاربردی، رویکرد سلسله­‌مراتبی جهت پیگیری فرایند توسعه تأمین‌کنندگان و حمایت تصمیمات موجود در هر مراحل آن ارائه‌ می‌کند. ابتدا، زمینه‌های تأمین نیازمند سپس واجد شرایط هریک زمینه‌ها به کمک تصمیم‌گیری چندشاخصه بهترین-بدترین مشخص می‌گردند. معیارهای شناسایی نیز مرور مطالعات پیشین بهره‌گیری نظرات خبرگان حوزه‌ی خرید استخراج‌شده‌اند. درنهایت، مدل ریاضی ...

The aim of this article is to present a new face recognition system based on the fusion of visible and thermal features obtained from the most current local matching descriptors by maximizing face recognition rates through the use of genetic algorithms. The article considers a comparison of the performance of the proposed fusion methodology against five current face recognition methods and clas...

A Virtual Test Facility (VTF) for studying the three-dimensional dynamic response of solid materials subject to strong shock and detonation waves has been constructed as part of the research program of the Center for Simulating the Dynamic Response of Materials at the California Institute of Technology. The compressible fluid flow is simulated with a Cartesian finite volume method and treating ...

This paper develops an original design method of high-pass (HP) negative group delay (NGD) integrated circuit (IC). The considered HP-NGD IC is based on a passive topology which essentially composed resistor-inductor (RL) network. presents the first time that unfamiliar HP-topology designed in miniaturized implemented 130-nm CMOS technology. theory voltage transfer function (VTF) analysis elabo...

[1] This study was financially supported by Adnan Menderes University Research Fund (BAP-Project Number VTF-04002) [2] This study was approved by Adnan Menderes University Ethics Committee with no. B.30.2.ADU.0.00.00/124­ HEK/2005/0011 * Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Veterinary, University of Adnan Menderes, 09016, Aydin TURKEY ** Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, U...

Vaccinia virus RNA polymerase terminates transcription in response to a specific signal UUUUUNU in the nascent RNA. Transduction of this signal to the elongating polymerase requires a trans-acting viral termination factor (VTF/capping enzyme), and is coupled to the hydrolysis of ATP. Recent studies suggest that ATP hydrolysis is catalyzed by a novel termination protein (factor X), which is tigh...

In current methods for voice transformation and speech synthesis, the vocal tract filter is usually assumed to be excited by a flat amplitude spectrum. In this article, we present a method using a mixed source model defined as a mixture of the Liljencrants–Fant (LF) model and Gaussian noise. Using the LF model, the base approach used in this presented work is therefore close to a vocoder using ...

A "supercooled" liquid develops when a fluid does not crystallize upon cooling below its ordering temperature. Instead, the microscopic relaxation times diverge so rapidly that, upon further cooling, equilibration eventually becomes impossible and glass formation occurs. Classic supercooled liquids exhibit specific identifiers including microscopic relaxation times diverging on a Vogel-Tammann-...