Thyroid hormones (TH) are known to stimulate in vitro oxygen consumption of tissues in mammals and birds. Hence, in many laboratory studies a positive relationship between TH concentrations and basal metabolic rate (BMR) has been demonstrated whereas evidence from species in the wild is scarce. Even though basal and field metabolic rates (FMR) are often thought to be intrinsically linked it is ...

INTRODUCTION In functional mitral regurgitation (FMR), effective regurgitant orifice area (EROA) displays a dynamic pattern. The impact of dynamic changes of annulus dysfunction and leaflets tenting on phasic EROA was explored with real-time three-dimensional transesophageal echocardiography (RT3D-TEE). METHODS RT3D-TEE was performed in 52 FMR patients and 30 controls. Mitral annulus dimensio...

We consider nonlinear filtering applications to target tracking based on a vector of multi-scaled models where some of the processes are rapidly mean reverting to their local equilibria. We focus attention on target tracking problems because multiple scaled models with fast mean-reversion (FMR) are a simple way to model latency in the response of tracking systems. The main results of this paper...

Aims The Italian Society of Interventional Cardiology (GIse) registry Of Transcatheter treatment mitral valve regurgitaTiOn (GIOTTO) was conceived in order to assess the safety and efficacy MitraClip therapy Italy. aim this study procedural mid-term outcomes, clinical echocardiographic predictors mortality after therapy, stratifying results according diagnosis functional degenerative regurgitat...

The magnetization and anisotropy of Ni81Fe19/W90Ti10 multilayers prepared by DC sputtering are presented. At high-angle X-ray diffraction, weak superlattice peaks appear around the NiFe (1 1 1) diffraction line, which indicate a fiber texture /1 1 1S for NiFe. The magnetization decreases with NiFe layer thickness tNiFe and the analysis of the results at 300K indicates the presence of 6 ( A thic...

BACKGROUND Quantitative assessment of the severity of mitral regurgitation (MR) is based on the calculation of the effective regurgitant orifice (ERO), a measure of lesion severity, and of the regurgitant volume (RVol), a measure of left ventricular volume overload. We aimed at evaluating the determinants of RVol in both organic (OMR) and functional mitral regurgitation (FMR). METHODS AND RES...

AIMS Functional mitral regurgitation (FMR) is a consequence of mitral annular enlargement, leaflet tethering and reduced co-aptation. The importance of the left atrium (LA) as a cause of mitral regurgitation (MR) is less clear. We applied a co-aptation index using three-dimensional (3D) transoesophageal echocardiography to FMR and MR secondary to LA dilatation (atrial mitral regurgitation, AMR)...

BACKGROUND Functional mitral regurgitation (FMR) occurs with a structurally normal valve as a complication of systolic left ventricular dysfunction (LVD). Determinants of degree of FMR are poorly defined; thus, mechanistic therapeutic approaches to FMR are hindered. METHODS AND RESULTS In a prospective study of 21 control subjects and 128 patients with LVD (defined as ejection fraction <50%, ...

The objective of the paper is to develop a “lab-on-a-chip” device for early disease (pancreatic cancer) diagnosis by using ferromagnetic resonance (FMR). Magnetic microbeads, which are functionalized for target molecules (antigens), are immobilized by antigen-antibody reactions on the surface of a microwave circuit. These magnetic labels are detected inductively using FMR, which detects a singl...

As the smallest and one of the most recently evolved marine mammals, sea otters face physiological challenges rarely encountered by larger, more derived aquatic species. To examine the effect of these challenges on foraging costs and resultant daily energy budgets, we measured the energetics of resting, grooming, diving and foraging for adult, male sea otters. The energy expended for these diff...