Calcification (CALC) is the most frequent cause of the clinical failure of bioprosthetic valves (BHV's). Controlled-release (paravalvar) administration of the anticalcification agent ethanehydroxydiphosphonate (EHDP), as either Na 2 EHDP or in combination (1 : 1) with the less soluble CaEHDP, from a silicone rubber matrix (20% w/w EHDP) was studied both in vitro and in vivo for the prevention o...

The objective of this research consisted of developing the two following thermal food processing software: “F-CALC” is software developed to carry out thermal process calculations based on the wellknown Ball's formula method, and “OPT-PROx” is software for thermal food processing optimization based on variable retort temperature processing and global optimization technique. Time-temperature dat...

In an effort to provide optimal patient care, perfusionists should rely on information provided by current research. Present statistics, however, document a substantial underuse of evidence-based clinical practice and therapies not only in perfusion, but throughout the entire medical field. This investigation applied a statistical method--binomial proportion analysis--to aid in uncovering the t...

Older and younger granitoids are widespread throughout the basement rocks of NE Egypt. Therefore, they are played a significant role in the evolution of the Pan-African crust. The Wadi El Sheikh-Gabal Saint Katherine area comprise three distinctive magmatic granitoid suites, namely: (1) calc-alkaline older quartz monzodiorite-tonalite suite (COG), (2) calcalkaline younger monzogranite suite (CY...

BACKGROUND Electrical Impedance measurements can be used to estimate the content of intra-thoracic air and thereby give information on pulmonary ventilation. Conventional Impedance measurements mainly indicate relative changes, but no information concerning air-volume is given. The study was performed to test whether a 3-point-calibration with known tidal volumes (VT) during conventional mechan...

the lalezar granitoids crop out within volcanic successions of the urumieh-dokhtar magmatic assemblage (udma). these granitoids have a range from gabbro-diorites to granites in composition. the mineral compositions of the most felsic rocks are characterized by the abundances of na-plagioclase, quartz, alkali feldspar, biotite and hornblende. in the gabbro-diorite rocks, plagioclase (ca-rich), h...

introduction the avan cu-fe skarn is located at the southern margin of qaradagh batholith, about 60 km north of tabriz. the skarn-type metasomatic alteration is the result of qaradagh batholith intrusion into the upper cretaceous impure carbonates. the studied area belongs to the central iranian structural zone. in regional scale, the studied area is a part of the zangezour mineralization zone ...

This paper proposes an approach to use constructive description logics as a typing system for streaming data in the domain of auditing. We introduce the constructive description logic cALC and show how it can serve as a semantic type system and knowledge representation formalism for data streams and give a direct interpretation of proofs as computations following the Curry-Howard-Isomorphism.

Extended version of lectures given at the University of Karlsruhe and at Calc-2000 school in Dubna. Properties of HQET as a field theory, methods of calculation of HQET diagrams and some simple applications are explained in detail. These lectures can be used as an additional chapter with any modern QCD textbook.

TheOrdovician volcanic and intrusive rocks of the Cadia–Neville region, in the southern Molong Volcanic Belt section of the Macquarie Arc in central-western New South Wales, display a temporal progression from shoshonitic basaltic volcanism (e.g. Mt Pleasant Basalt Member) in the late Darriwilian to Gisbornian (ca 460–453 Ma) to small-volume dacitic medium-K calc-alkaline magmatism (e.g. Copper...