A robust seizure prediction methodology would enable a "closed-loop" system that would only activate as impending seizure activity is detected. Such a system would eliminate ongoing stimulation to the brain, thereby eliminating such side effects as coughing, hoarseness, voice alteration, and paresthesias (Murphy et al., 1998; Ben-Menachem, 2001), while preserving overall battery life of the sys...

BACKGROUND Radical surgical treatment has been the first choice for early gastric cancer, but high resolution endosonography allows in situ diagnosis with a high sensitivity and specificity and in consequence the option of local endoscopic treatment. AIMS To evaluate photodynamic therapy (PDT) using meso-tetrahydroxyphenyl-chlorin (mTHPC) as the photosensitiser in superficial gastric cancer. ...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to examine the Tpeak-Tend (Tpe/corrected Tpe) interval, which is an indicator of transmural myocardial repolarization, measured non-invasively via electrocardiogram in patients with acute pulmonary embolism (PE), and to investigate the relationship with 30-day mortality and morbidity. METHODS The study included 272 patients diagnosed with acute PE, compris...

Myocardial fractional flow reserve (FFR) is a new index of the functional significance of intermediate coronary stenoses that is calculated from pressure measurements made during coronary arteriography. The aim of this study was to evaluate the correlation between non-hyperemic coronary pressure dicrotic notch and fractional flow reserve (FFR). A consecutive of 114 patients (73 men and 41 women...

Objective: To investigate leukocyte count, neutrophil percentage, Neutrophil-Lymphocyte Ratio (NLR), Platelet-Lymphocyte ratio (PLR), mean platelet volume (MPV), red cell distribution width (RDW), platelet distribution width (PDW) and CRP in the diagnosis of acute appendicitis (AA). Materials and methods: A retrospective case-controlled study was designed in two groups. Ninety-seven patients co...

The electron and muon number violating muonium-antimuonium oscillation process in an extended Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model is investigated. Modifying the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model by the inclusion of three right-handed neutrino superfields and allowing only intra-generation lepton number violation but not inter-generation lepton number mixing, the muonium-antimuonium conver...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES In this study, we examined the role of inflammatory parameters in an apical mural thrombus with a reduced ejection fraction due to large anterior myocardial infarction (MI). SUBJECTS AND METHODS A total of 103 patients who had suffered from heart failure, 45 of whom had left ventricular apical thrombus (AT) after a large anterior MI, were enrolled in the study. A det...

This work is a theoretical study of microwave photonic links which use optical frequency modulation (FM) and lter-slope discrimination for demodulation. The high modulation e ciency of optical FM devices is attractive for achieving low noisegure links, but linear demodulation of the signals is also desired. In order to design discriminators which produce low distortion, this paper presents gene...

We consider a population of players in a setting that allows to analyze local as well as global interaction. Using the formalism of automata networks we show that best response is a special case of a biased majority (minority) imitation. For a population of best response players we first discuss the known properties of the deterministic dynamics as a preparation and reference for stochastic dyn...

Analysis of an extensive collection of 730 spectroscopic observations of the bright A0IV star γ Gem lead to the following conclusions: (1)A neworbital solution is presented. Some hints of a small gradual increase of the systemic velocity were found but cannot be taken as real until confirmed by continuing observations. There is still no compelling evidence of the apsidal motion, however. (2) A ...