The anomalous origin of the left coronary artery arising from the pulmonary artery (ALCAPA), also known as Bland-White-Garland (BWG) syndrome, is a rare congenital heart disease. We present cases of three children in whom BWG syndrome was repaired surgically. In two of them, the left coronary artery was transplanted from the pulmonary trunk to the aorta, and in one, the Takeuchi procedure was p...

Alexis L. Beatty, MD, MAS; Ivy A. Ku, MD, MAS; Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, PhD, MD; Robert H. Christenson, PhD; Christopher R. DeFilippi, MD; Peter Ganz, MD; Joachim H. Ix, MD, MAS; Donald Lloyd-Jones, MD, MSc; Torbjørn Omland, MD, PhD, MPH; Marc S. Sabatine, MD, MPH; Nelson B. Schiller, MD; Michael G. Shlipak, MD, MPH; Hicham Skali, MD, MSc; Madoka Takeuchi, MS; Eric Vittinghoff, PhD; Mary A. Who...

Anomalous left coronary artery from pulmonary artery (ALCAPA) is a rare congenital heart disease that affects one in every 300 000 live births and accounts for 0.24–0.46% of cases of congenital heart disease [1]. Over the last few decades, four different operative procedures have been recommended as treatment for ALCAPA: the simple ligation of ALCAPA, coronary artery bypass grafting, channel re...

We present a self-organized method to build a stochastic Japanese word segmenter from a small number of basic words and a large amount of unsegmented training text. It consists of a word-based statistical language model, an initial estimation procedure, and a re-estimation procedure. Initial word frequencies are estimated by counting all possible longest match strings between the training text ...

We will present a method of implementation of general projective measurement of two-photon polarization state with the use of linear optics elements only. The scheme presented succeeds with a probability of at least 16 / 1 . For some specific measurements, (e.g. parity measurement) this probability reaches 4 / 1 . PACS number(s): 03.67.-a Recently, Hofmann and Tekeuchi [1] have presented a meth...

The generalized p-trigonometric and (p, q)-trigonometric functions were introduced by P. Lindqvist and S. Takeuchi, respectively. We prove some inequalities and present a few conjectures for the (p, q)-functions. 2010 Mathematics Subject Classification: 33C99, 33B99