Purpose: To assess the impact of a regular sonographer proctored training program for emergency medicine trainees in the use of Emergency Department bedside ultrasound Methods: Emergency Department (ED) Registrars in the Swan District Hospital ED were provided with proctored instruction in bedside ultrasound in performance of extended focused assessment sonography in trauma (eFAST) and abdomina...

Abstract The acoustic and structural dynamic properties of vehicles—often referred to as Noise, Vibration, Harshness (NVH)—form a crucial criterion during product development. To reduce iterations with physical prototypes, NVH simulation models are well established. In early development phases, many parameters models, such material contact properties, either assumed based on empirical values or...

BACKGROUND Traditionally, ultrasound has been used to evaluate musculoskeletal injuries in athletes; however, ultrasound applications extend well beyond musculoskeletal conditions, many of which are pertinent to athletes. EVIDENCE ACQUISITION Articles were identified in PubMed using the search terms ultrasound, echocardiogram, preparticipation physical examination, glycogen, focused assessmen...

The application of crop models towards improved local scale prediction and precision management requires the identification description major factors influencing model performance. Such efforts are particularly important for dryland areas which face rapid population growth increasing constraints on water supplies. In this study, a global sensitivity analysis yield transpiration was performed 49...

In order to control a wild insect population with SIT (Sterile Insect Technique), it is necessary to estimate this population. This can be done with experimental data (using traps), combined with appropriate dispersal models, like those studied in [1, 2]. However the observed trap data depend on some (unknown) population parameters, like the diffusivity, and some (unknown) trap parameters, like...

Background Patients with severe aortic stenosis (AS) exhibit systemic endothelial dysfunction, which can be associated myocardial ischaemia in absence of obstructive coronary disease. Transcatheter valve replacement (TAVR) is used to treat AS patients high or prohibitive surgical risk. However, it remains unknown whether function recovers post-TAVR. We therefore sought assess the early and late...