OBJECTIVES The purpose of the present study was to compare the use of a mechanical transmyocardial implant (TMI) device with transmyocardial laser revascularization (TMR) for induction of therapeutic angiogenesis and arteriogenesis in the chronically ischemic heart. BACKGROUND Prior experimental studies have demonstrated evidence for neovascularization after both mechanical and laser transmyo...

BACKGROUND Early diagnosis and treatment with artesunate-mefloquine combination therapy (MAS) have reduced the transmission of falciparum malaria dramatically and halted the progression of mefloquine resistance in camps for displaced persons along the Thai-Burmese border, an area of low and seasonal transmission of multidrug-resistant Plasmodium falciparum. We extended the same combination drug...

INTRODUCTION Body mass index-for age (BMI) and tri-ponderal mass index-for-age (TMI) values of healthy non-underweight, non-obese millennial children have not been reported until now. We aimed to obtain these values. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Longitudinal growth study (1995-2017) of 1,453 healthy non-underweight, non-obese millennial children, from birth (n = 477) or from 4 years of age (n = 976) ...

We present a semi-analytic numerical model to estimate the transverse modal instability (TMI) threshold for photonic crystal rod amplifiers. The model includes thermally induced waveguide perturbations in the fiber cross section modeled with finite element simulations, and the relative intensity noise (RIN) of the seed laser, which seeds mode coupling between the fundamental and higher order mo...

AIMS The DoUble-blind Atorvastatin AmLodipine (DUAAL) trial investigated whether atorvastatin decreases ischaemia by a vascular benefit, independent of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol lowering, in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD), both alone and in combination with the traditional anti-anginal therapy, amlodipine. METHODS AND RESULTS Randomized, double-blind, parallel-group, mu...

Microwave brightness temperatures are obtained from the SeaWinds scatterometer on the QuikSCAT satellite. These QuikSCAT Radiometer (QRad) measurements are used to infer instantaneous oceanic rain rates using a statistical retrieval algorithm that is based upon collocated TMI measurements. QRad instantaneous rain rate measurements have been binned in 0.5 hour local time windows onto a 0.5° x 0....

Since the TRMM launch in 1997, global rain estimation by microwave radiometer has been improved referring the PR data. The microwave radiometer observation becomes the major observation tool for the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM). However, there are still gaps of global rainfall distribution between PR and TMI (e.g. Berg et al., 2002). One of the major issues for rain retrieval algorith...


 Introduction: Since 2017, number of studies involving nutritional status adolescents using a novel parameter named tri-ponderal mass index (TMI) is soaring high. The concept TMI was formulated to substitute body (BMI) in case adolescent population. present study aims find values school-going girls (aged 10 19 years). It also compare the association and BMI with mid-upper arm circumferenc...

BACKGROUND Despite effective therapies for many conditions, patients find it difficult to adhere to prescribed treatments. Technology-mediated interventions (TMIs) are increasingly being used with the hope of improving adherence. OBJECTIVE To assess the effects of TMI, intended to enhance patient adherence to prescribed medications, on both medication adherence and clinical outcomes. METHOD...

Transmural distribution of viable myocardium in the ischemic myocardium has not been quantified and fully elucidated. To address this issue, we evaluated transmural myocardial strain profile (TMSP) in dogs with myocardial infarction using a newly developed tissue strain imaging. TMSP was obtained from the posterior wall at the epicardial left ventricular short-axis view in 13 anesthetized open-...