OBJECTIVE To investigate the presence of myocardial fibrosis determined by fragmented QRS in patients with severe aortic valve stenosis. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Eighty-seven consecutive patients with severe aortic valve stenosis and 83 age- and gender-matched control subjects were enrolled into this study. Severe aortic valve stenosis was defined as an aortic valve area <1 cm(2), a Vmax >4 m/s, ...

The design of distributed applications based on a fragmented object model has many benefits. Unlike traditional middleware with a RPC-based client-server interaction, the implementation of a fragmented object may be distributed over an arbitrary number of fragments, without restrictions on internal structure or interaction, while maintaining a transparent, standardized interface on the outside....

Interest in bat-borne diseases and parasites has grown in the past decade over concerns for human health. However, the drivers of parasite diversity among bat host species are understudied as are the links between parasite richness and emerging risks. Thus, we aimed at exploring factors that explain macro and microparasite species richness in bats from Southeast Asia, a hotspot of emerging infe...

Wildlife crossing structures are one solution to mitigating the fragmentation of wildlife populations caused by roads, but their effectiveness in providing connectivity has only been superficially evaluated. Hundreds of grizzly (Ursus arctos) and black bear (Ursus americanus) passages through under and overpasses have been recorded in Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada. However, the ability o...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the effect of stone fragmentation on late stone recurrence by comparing the outcome of extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy (ESWL) and non-fragmenting percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL), and to investigate factors contributing to recurrent calculi. PATIENTS AND METHODS We evaluated stone recurrence in 647 patients who initially achieved a stone-free status after ESW...

Submitted for the MAR11 Meeting of The American Physical Society Quantum rotor theory of spinor condensates in tight traps RYAN BARNETT, HOI-YIN HUI, CHIEN-HUNG LIN, JAY D. SAU, S. DAS SARMA, Joint Quantum Institute and Condensed Matter Theory Center — In this talk, we theoretically construct exact mappings of many-particle bosonic systems onto quantum rotor models. In particular, we analyze th...