BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Stent-protected carotid angioplasty (SPAC) is an option for treating cervical symptomatic high-grade internal carotid artery (ICA) stenosis. So far, knowledge about hemodynamic changes in the early postinterventional phase is limited. The purpose of this study was to evaluate these changes. METHODS Thirty-four consecutive patients with a high-grade ICA stenosis (accordi...

Three methods for estimating free thyroxine (FT4) in serum were studied: equilibrium dialysis, the SPAC-ET FT4 radioimmunoassay kit, and the Amerlite MAB FT4 luminometric assay. Serum samples from 10 subjects with above-normal thyroxine-binding globulin (TBG), 6 with low TBG, 30 with familial dysalbuminemic hyperthyroxinemia (FDH), 13 with nonesterified fatty acids (NEFA) concentrations in seru...

Sequence analysis upstream from the subtilin structural gene (spaS) in Bacillus subtilis ATCC 6633 revealed several open reading frames, SpaB, SpaC, and SpaD. SpaB, consisting of 599 amino acid residues, shows excellent homology with a variety of membrane translocator proteins, such as HlyB from Escherichia coli and some mammalian multidrug resistance proteins. When the spaB gene was interrupte...

Abstract. Understanding the differences and control factors of stable water isotopes in soil–plant–atmosphere continuum (SPAC) different vegetation zones is great significance revealing hydrological processes regional cycle mechanisms. From April 2018 to October 2019, we collected 1281 samples investigated isotopes' changes SPAC three (alpine meadows, forests, arid foothills) Shiyang River basi...

Fractional Interference Alignment (FIA) is a transmission scheme which achieves any value between [0,1] for the Symbols transmitted per Antenna per Channel use (SpAC). FIA was designed in [1] specifically for Finite Alphabet (FA) signals, under the constraint that the Minimum Distance (MD) detector is used at all the receivers. Similar to classical interference alignment, the FIA precoder also ...

Abstract We address the non-classicality of hybrid coherent (HC) states, i.e., states expressed as a superposition state and single-photon-added (SPAC) state. In particular, we evaluate their photon statistics, squeezing, negativity Wigner function. Our results indicated that HC could exhibit larger non-classicalities than SPAC also suggest generation scheme for which involves Kerr nonlinearity...

BACKGROUND We hypothesized that longitudinal pulmonary arterial deformation during the cardiac cycle reflects pulmonary arterial capacitance. To examine this hypothesis, we assessed whether tissue Doppler-derived pulmonary annular motion could serve as a novel way to evaluate pulmonary arterial capacitance in pediatric patients with ventricular septal defect (VSD). METHODS In this prospective...