BACKGROUND Radiofrequency (RF) catheter ablation lesion size has been limited by the small volume of tissue directly heated by the RF electrode. Microwave (MW) energy has been proposed as an alternative energy source to generate larger lesions because of its increased volume of direct tissue heating. To further characterize MW ablation of myocardium, we studied the temperature-versus-distance p...

PURPOSE Green laser pointers with output powers in the tens to hundreds of milliwatt (mW) range, clearly exceeding the limiting 5 mW of American National Standards Institute class 3a (International Electrotechnical Commission class 3R), are now easily available in the global market. They are increasingly being used in public sky observations and other nighttime outreach activities by educators ...

Mirror writing (MW) has mainly been observed in left-hemisphere-damaged patients writing with the left hand. This study evaluated the presence of MW in 24 patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI). We found that MW is not a typical feature of MCI. However, one woman (FC), mislabeled initially with MCI but in fact affected by anxiety, showed florid MW when writing with her left hand, which r...

We report on a project with the goal of creating a proactive system that attempts to reduce the propensity to mind wander (MW) by optimizing learning conditions (e.g., text difficulty and value) for individual learners. Our previous work had shown that supervised classification based on individual attributes could be used to detect the learning condition with the lowest MW rates. Here we test t...

Aim of this study was to monitor the solar ultraviolet-B intensity and to compare the phototoxic effect of different intensity of natural and artificial ultraviolet-B on human red blood cells in presence of compounds as riboflavin and chloroquine. Photohemolysis of erythrocytes was studied under natural solar radiation and artificial ultraviolet-B radiation of 312 nm. Monitoring of solar ultrav...

This study examines the effects of a 2.1-GHz WCDMA-modulated microwave (MW) radiation on apoptotic activity and mitochondrial membrane potential (ΔΨm) in MCF-7 cells. The cells were exposed to the MW at a specific absorption rate (SAR) of 0.528 W/kg for 4 or 24 h. The antiproliferative effect of MW exposure was determined by the MTT test. Cytochrome-c and p53 levels were determined by an ELISA ...

To investigate the effects of whole-body microwave exposure on plasma adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH), thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH), thyroxine (T4) and free triiodothyronine (T3) levels, rats weighing 267-306 g (light group) and 352-387 g (heavy group) were exposed to microwaves with a frequency of 2,450 MHz at the power densities of 5 and 10 mW/cm2 under an ambient temperature of 21 de...