CLINICAL AND PATHOPHYSIOLOGICAL CHARAC- TERISTICS OF SHORT-SEGMENT BARRETTS ESOPHAGUS

Properties and Transport Charac - teristics of Majorana Fermions in Nanowires by Filip Anselm Rasmussen

Majorana fermions are quasiparticle excitations which are features of a two-dimensional quantum system in a so-called topological phase. Majorana fermions are non-Abelian anyons and the system therefore has a degenerate groundstate protected by a gap to the other excitations. It has been proposed that a system with Majorana fermions can be utilized for performing fault-tolerant quantum computat...

Binocular visual acuity of adults by region and selected demographic charac- teristics.

DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF TAPERED SLOT AN- TENNA WITH 3.5/5.5 GHz BAND-NOTCHED CHARAC- TERISTICS

A novel tapered slot antenna (TSA) with 3.5/5.5 GHz dual band-notched characteristics for ultra-wideband (UWB) radios is proposed in this paper. To realize dual band-notched characteristics at the TSA, we employ (a) a pair of nested C-shaped stubs beside the feed line and (b) a broadband microstrip-to-slot-line transition with an Archimedean spiral-shaped slot. The proposed antenna has been suc...

Short-segment Barrett's esophagus: prevalence, diagnosis, and associations.

BACKGROUND Prevalence of short segment Barrett's (SSB) oesophagus, defined as the absence of macroscopic Barrett's but histologically identifiable intestinal metaplasia, has been reported to be 18% based on haematoxylin and eosin (H&E) staining. AIMS To define the prevalence of SSB oesophagus using H&E and alcian blue staining and to determine whether SSB oesophagus is associated with inflamm...

Circumferential Locations of Different Shapes of Short-segment Barrett's Esophagus

Objective To clarify the relationship between the shape and circumferential location of non-circumferential short-segment Barrett's esophagus (SSBE). Methods We examined 3,788 subjects (2,497 males, 1,291 females; mean age 52.4 years) who underwent upper GI endoscopy as part of a detailed medical checkup. The presence of columnar-appearing mucosa ≥10 mm long in the distal esophagus was diagnose...