OVER three-hundred and thirty years ago, just when England was about to be rent apart by the Civil War, Thomas Browne, a student of Padua and Montpellier and a Doctor of Medicine of both Leiden and Oxford, wrote Religio Medici. This contributed little to religion, but in the stately prose of a bygone age ranged far and wide with protestations of piety and a gentle irony. One of the best known p...

This paper describes an approach to detect the entrance of building with hopeful that it will be applied for autonomous navigation robot. The entrance is an important component which connects internal and external environments of building. We focus on the method of entrance detection using multiple cues. The information of entrance characteristics such as relative height and position on the bui...

Sinus-node function was characterized in 13 patients during cardiac catheterization by the introduction of progressively premature atrial depolarizations. Curves relating the extent of sinus-node depression following these premature depolarizations and their degree of prematurity were constructed. The maximum extent of sinus-node depression following premature depolarizations and A-V-nodal and ...

Objective(s): In this study, we aimed to describe the characteristics of portal vein tumor thrombosis (PVTT), complicating hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in contrast-enhanced FDG PET/CT scan. Methods: In this retrospective study, 9 HCC patients with FDG-avid PVTT were diagnosed by contrast-enhanced fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography (FDG PET/CT), which is a comb...

Nesting cavities are often a limited resource that multiple species use. There is an ongoing discussion on whether invasive cavity nesting birds restrict the availability of this key limited resource. While the answer to this question has important conservation implications, little experimental work has been done to examine it. Here, we aimed to experimentally test whether alien cavity nesting ...