Restrictive cardiomyopathies may have different etiologies, among which we can point out storage diseases by accumulation of different materials such as desmin. Desminopathies are uncommon diseases that progress with conduction abnormalities, peripheral myopathies, and ventricular dysfunction. The present report describes a patient with complete atrioventricular block as the initial event; he l...

This report details the clinical, hemodynamic, and morphologic data from four patients 59 to 77 years old (mean 66) with a primary restrictive cardiomyopathy. All patients had symptoms of congestive heart failure, jugular venous distention, and murmurs of mitral and tricuspid regurgitation. Four patients required pacemakers, three for the brady-tachy syndrome and one for complete heart block. C...

This paper presents the results of a corpus study which reveals the frequency of restrictive post-modification on definite descriptions in English language texts (newspaper articles). It shows that restricted descriptions are usually first mention uses (nonanaphoric) and that these can be systematically identified. The paper then compares features of restricted descriptions with bridging refere...

We present a methodcllogy for synthesizing hybrid controllers that meet multiple control objectives. Our methodology uses game theoretic techniques to classify all controls that can be used to meet the high priority objectives. Lower priority objectives are then optimized within this class.

For over 30 years academics and practitioners have been debating the merits of the CAPM. One of the characteristics of this model is that it measures risk by beta, which follows from an equilibrium in which investors display mean-variance behavior. In that framework, risk is assessed by the variance of returns, a questionable and restrictive measure of risk. The semivariance of returns is a mor...

Our manuscript addresses the reliability of cardiac CT as an alternative for cardiac MRI in patients with a systemic right ventricle. Currently, cardiac MRI is considered the gold standard for volumes and function measurements of the systemic right ventricle. However, 20% of patients with a systemic right ventricle is pacemaker dependent, and therefore unsuitable to undergo MRI. To our knowledg...

An interpretation of special relativity is presented with alternative principles that treat an appearance of simultaneity as physically real. This implies instantaneous propagation of incoming light, but maintains light’s invariable propagation rate of c by using an alternative measure of speed. The relativistic Doppler effect is derived from physical principles based on the direct appearance o...

We study dynamical systems defined on the combinatorial model of real line. prove that using single-valued maps there are no periodic points period 3, which contrasts with classical and less restrictive setting. Then, we use Vietoris-like multivalued to show is more flexibility, at least in terms periods, this framework than usual one because do not have conditions about existence periods given...