BACKGROUND Alcohol plays a significant role in major traumatic injuries. While the role of alcohol in motor vehicle trauma (MVT) is well described, its role and approaches to prevention in other injury mechanisms is less defined. METHODS A 10 year retrospective examination of Alberta Trauma Registry (ATR) data was conducted on all major trauma patients (age ≥ 9 and ISS ≥ 12) from 2001-2010. T...

41 The effect of reticular formation excitability on maximum voluntary torque (MVT) 42 generation and associated muscle activation at the shoulder and elbow was investigated through 43 natural elicitation (active head rotation) of the asymmetric tonic neck reflex (ATNR) in 26 44 individuals with stroke and 9 age-range-matched controls. Isometric MVT generation at the 45 shoulder and elbow was q...

Water-soluble fluorescent conjugated polymer is a promising material which could be used as an optical platform in highly sensitive molecular sensors. In this paper, a simple label-free DNA sensor, which consisted of a poly(3-alkoxy-4-methylthiophene) and an aptamer, was used to detect L-argininamide (L-Arm). Due to the specific binding reaction between L-Arm and its aptamer, the proposed metho...

Abstract Difficulties in dating Mississippi Valley–type (MVT) mineral deposits and the often closely associated dolomitization have led to controversy regarding their origin. We report first radiometric ages for Gorno mining district northern Italy, an example of Alpine subclass MVT deposits. U-Pb hydrothermal carbonates pre- postdating ore-forming event show that base-metal mineralization occu...

Tracking algorithms for the GPS C/A code with an interference rejection capability based on state estimation technique are considered. A swept tone jamming signal is modeled as an autoregressive (AR) process and estimated jointly with the timing delay. A novel Mean-Value Theorem Particle Filter (MVT-PF) is applied to address the highly nonlinear measurement model and its performance is compared...

Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Hubei, China Nowadays the simultaneous PET/MRI is being paid more and more attentions. Since MRI provides a high resolution, unsurpassed soft tissue contrast imaging and PET reveal the metabolism progress in molecular level, it is reasonable to believe the PET/ MRI will be a powerful tool to improve the understanding of pathogenesis and mechanism of ...

Schultheiss et al. [3]. The article by Lang et al. [4] points out the interdisciplinary approach that is required to select an optimal individual therapy for a given patient based on clinical presentation, underlying diseases, extension of thrombosis, and the patient’s comorbidities. A particular focus is therefore put on the surgical therapeutic options. A specific clinical challenge is a PVT ...