AIMS Intra-aortic balloon pumping reduces afterload and may be effective in improving reperfusion in high risk infarct patients treated with primary angioplasty. METHODS High risk infarct patients referred from other centres for primary PTCA were randomized to treatment with or without an intra-aortic balloon pump. The primary end-point consisted of the combination of death, non-fatal reinfar...

This chapter provides an overview of the design challenges faced in the implementation of hardware HEVC decoders. These challenges can be attributed to the larger and diverse coding block sizes and transform sizes, the larger interpolation filter for motion compensation, the increased number of steps in intra prediction and the introduction of a new in-loop filter. Several solutions to address ...

Introduction: Measuring the size of motor evoked potentials (MEPs) induced by transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is an investigational technique to show the level of corticospinal excitability however, some of the fundamental methodological aspects of TMS (such as the effects of inter-pulse intervals (IPI) on MEP size) are not fully understood, this issue raises concerns about the re...

The visual signal is highly occupied by regions of homogeneous and repetitive patterns known as Textures. Textures have a common property that their similarity highly deviates from point by point comparison, i.e, two textures can look very similar even if they have some shift, rotation and difference in their distribution. In the context of compression, All of the MPEG reference encoders (inclu...