Bordachar P, Deplagne A, Chabaneix J, Franceschi F, Deharo JC, Dos Santos P, Clementy J, Roudaut R, Leclercq C, Habib G. Validation of an echocardiographic multiparametric strategy to increase responder patients after cardiac resynchronization: a multicentre study. Eur Heart J 2009;30:2880–2887. First published on 9 January 2009. doi:10.1093/eurheartj/ehn582. 8. Abraham WT, Fisher WG, Smith AL,...

Introduction: Leiomyomas are benign, soft tissue tumors, arising from the smooth muscle. They usually affect the muscular layer of the gut and body of the uterus. Oral leiomyomas are extremely rare and are thought to arise from the smooth muscle wall of blood vessels. They present as slow growing, well-circumscribed, painless swellings accounting for only 0.42% of soft tissue neoplasms [1] of t...

Title of Document: THE TRANSFORMATIONAL ROLE OF IT IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP: CROWDFUNDING AND THE DEMOCRATIZATION OF ACCESS TO CAPITAL AND INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY Keongtae Kim, Doctor of Philosophy, 2014 Directed By: Associate Professor Il-Horn Hann Department of Decision, Operations and Information Technologies Associate Professor Siva Viswanathan Department of Decision, Operations and Information T...

Parasites and pathogens pose a ubiquitous threat to all organisms. However, until relatively recently, the impact of parasites on the ecology and evolution of their hosts had been largely ignored by biologists. Now, of course, parasites are recognized as an important selective force on their hosts and a key factor influencing their population dynamics (Hudson et al., 2002; Grenfell and Dobson, ...

AIM To examine the relationship between retinal vascular morphology and cognitive abilities in a narrow-age cohort of community-dwelling older people. METHODS Digital retinal images taken at age ∼73 years from 683 participants of the Lothian Birth Cohort 1936 (LBC1936) were analysed with Singapore I Vessel Assessment (SIVA) software. Multiple regression models were applied to determine cross-...

The Panel on Future Directions in Control, Dynamics, and Systems was formed in April 2000 to provide a renewed vision of future challenges and opportunities in the field, along with recommendations to government agencies, universities, and research organizations to ensure continued progress in areas of importance to the industrial and defense base. Its report was released in April 2002 and will...

Introdução: A endometriose é uma doença inflamatória benigna, depen-dente de estrogênio, que afeta mulheres durante várias etapas sua evolu-ção biológica, desde a pré-menarca, passando pelo menecma e até mesmo no período pós-menopausa. Acredita-se terapia reposição hormo-nal possa aumentar recorrência da doença, dado seu efeito sobre os focos restantes na pelve. Relato caso: Paciente 38 anos fo...

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a progressive age-related lung disease, the cause of which is not been fully understood. IPF is a devastating disease with mortality worse than many cancers, and treatment options are limited. IPF is thought to occur after recurrent injury to the alveolar epithelium followed by abnormal repair characterized by the formation of fibroblast and myofibroblast ...