Total arterial revascularization: When will its time come?

Nuclear fusion: when will it come together

In the first half of the 20 century nuclear fusion and fission were both seen as processes that could potentially be harnessed as a powerful energy source. Research into fusion began in the 1920’s, but it was too technically challenging to make a working fusion reactor. Fission developed much more successfully during the Second World War, when North America’s Manhattan Project attempted to use ...

Total arterial revascularization: A superior method of cardiac revascularization.

For over 40 years, the left internal thoracic artery has been used as the gold standard for myocardial revascularization and anastomosis over the left anterior descending artery due to its excellent patency rates. However, the right internal thoracic artery behaves in the same manner as the left, also having excellent long-term patency. Hence, no patient should be deprived of the benefits of to...

Harmonization: Its Time Has Come.

The importance of standardization of laboratory test results has a long history traceable to the first proficiency testing results in 1947 that demonstrated large discrepancies among results from 59 hospital laboratories (1 ). The AACC published a series of monographs in 1953– 1972 titled Standard Methods of Clinical Chemistry that promoted a single measurement procedure (MP) for a measurand. T...

Run-Time Parallelization: Its Time Has Come

Current parallelizing compilers cannot identify a significant fraction of parallelizable loops because they have complex or statically insufficiently defined access patterns. This type of loop mostly occurs in irregular, dynamic applications which represent more than 50% of all applications [20]. Making parallel computing succeed has therefore become conditioned by the ability of compilers to a...

Will they come and will they stay?