BACKGROUND It remains to be elucidated whether brain activity is altered in takotsubo cardiomyopathy. METHODS AND RESULTS We measured cerebral blood flow (CBF) in 3 consecutive patients with takotsubo cardiomyopathy using (99m)Tc ethyl cysteinate dimmer single photon-emission computed tomography (SPECT) in the acute and chronic phases. In all patients, CBF was significantly increased in the h...

We propose an efficient method to propagate the hierarchical quantum master equations based on a reformulation of the original formalism and the incorporation of a filtering algorithm that automatically truncates the hierarchy with a preselected tolerance. The new method is applied to calculate electron transfer dynamics in a spin-boson model and the absorption spectra of an excitonic dimmer. T...

My own need to deal with exceptional points or spectral bifurcations appeared when we experimentally observed a Quantum Dynamical Phase Transition for a spin dimmer in the presence of a non-quiral spin environment [1]. In this case the effective Hamiltonian results nonHermitian. We further observed that spectral bifurcations (exceptional points) may appear in strictly positive dynamics, i.e. so...

This document presents requirements specific to home control and automation applications for Routing Over Low power and Lossy (ROLL) networks. In the near future, many homes will contain high numbers of wireless devices for a wide set of purposes. Examples include actuators (relay, light dimmer, heating valve), sensors (wall switch, water leak, blood pressure), and advanced controllers (radiofr...

We used the very simple and successful Cannonball (CB) model of gamma ray bursts (GRBs) and their afterglows (AGs) to analyze the observations of the mildly extinct optical AG of the relatively nearby GRB 020405, first made with ground-based telescopes, and with the HST at later times. We show that GRB 020405 was associated with a 1998bw-like supernova (SN) at the GRB’s redshift which appeared ...

A thirty-six-year-old female, who complained of dry cough symptoms, was treated based on a diagnosis of flu or asthma. However, the cough did not improve. She subsequently developed dyspnea and felled into both a hypoxic state and shock and she was transferred to this department. Electrocardiograms revealed incomplete right bundle block with ST depression on the right precordial leads and a blo...