Prior to 1980, the only method to treat cardiac arrhythmias besides anti-arrhythmic drug therapy was open-heart surgery, that involved either dissecting or freezing the arrhythmic focus with a hand-held metal probe. Soon thereafter, early reports of percutaneously performed cardiac ablation were published that marked the beginning of a new era in the field of cardiac electrophysiology (EP). As ...

The sensibilities for the sick people and looking for the best available and less expensive means to cure them, has been one constant features of the Italian Professor Velio Bocci, to the point that most of his entire life has been devoted to helping those in need of scientific medical assistance. In a similar way as his Siena ancestor countryman Giacomo Sansedoni did. A picture of this promine...

Every function f(x) which is of period 1 and Lebesgue integrable on [0, 1 ] may be expanded in a Walsh-Fourier series(3), f(x)~ ?.?=n ak\pk(x), where ak=fof(x)ypk(x)dx, k=0, 1, 2, • • • . Fine exhibited some of the basic similarities and differences between the trigonometric orthonormal system and the Walsh system. He identified the Walsh functions with the full set of characters of the dyadic ...