OBJECTIVES This study was undertaken to evaluate the ability of myocardial contrast echocardiography (MCE) to guide the targeted delivery of ethanol during nonsurgical septal reduction therapy (NSRT) and to assess the relation between the MCE risk area and infarct size determined by enzymatic and radionuclide methods. BACKGROUND NSRT with intracoronary ethanol is a new promising treatment for...

The effect of 3-dimensional strain state on the magnetocaloric properties epitaxial La0.8Ca0.2MnO3 (LCMO) thin films grown two types substrates, SrTiO3 (001) (STO) and LaAlO3 (LAO) has been studied as a function film thickness within range 25 to 300 nm. STO substrate imposes an in-plane tensile biaxial while LAO compressive strain. LCMO by gets relaxed more rapidly than that but both LCMO/STO L...

Microcystins are a group of highly liver-specific toxins, although their exact mechanisms of action remain unclear. We examined the effects of microcystic cyanobacteria extract (MCE) collected from a contaminated water source on the organization of cellular microtubules (MTs) and microfilaments (MFs) in hepatocytes. We also investigated the effects on lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) leakage and int...

In this paper, we propose a procedure for training a pronunciation network with criteria consistent with the optimality objectives for speech recognition systems. In particular, we describe a framework for using maximum likelihood(ML) and minimum classi cation error(MCE) criteria for pronunciation network optimization. The ML criterion is used to obtain an optimal structure for the pronunciatio...

In our previous works, a Switching Linear Gaussian Hidden Markov Model (SLGHMM) and its segmental derivative, SSLGHMM, were proposed to cast the problem of modelling a noisy speech utterance by a well-designed dynamic Bayesian network. We presented parameter learning procedures for both models with maximum likelihood (ML) criterion. The effectiveness of such models was confirmed by evaluation e...

We developed and optimized a system coupling microchip capillary electrophoresis (MCE) and laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) detection for the analysis of microorganisms. The MCE-LIF system successfully separated pure cultures of lactic acid bacteria and Saccharomyces cerevisiae within 200 s. The results indicate that the MCE system can be conveniently used for the rapid and highly sensitive det...

12 (52%) had perfusion defects on MCE. Significant CAD was revealed on angiography in 10 (43.5%) patients: in 4 (17.4%) single-vessel and in 6 (26.1%) multi-vessel disease. To investigate diagnostic performance of MCE in detection of significant coronary lesion, we performed a vessel-based head to head comparison with coronary angiography for three different regions supplied by LAD, Cx and RCA ...

Recently multi-band speech recognition has been proposed to improve robustness under environmental noises. One important issue is how to combine decisions from individual sub-band recognizers to arrive at a nal decision. Under the hidden Markov modeling (HMM) framework, one common approach is combining sub-band likelihoods linearly in an optimal manner so that the more reliable sub-bands are em...

The manuscript presents so far unpublished high-quality aircraft measurements of CO2, CO and CH4 from three large wildfires and one prescribed fire in mixed conifer forests of the northwestern United States. From these measurements, the author calculates emission factors (EF) for these species and analyses the relationship between observed modified combustion efficiency (MCE) and EFCH4. The aut...

Understanding of species interactions within mesophotic coral ecosystems (MCEs; ~ 30-150 m) lags well behind that for shallow coral reefs. MCEs are often sites of fish spawning aggregations (FSAs) for a variety of species, including many groupers. Such reproductive fish aggregations represent temporal concentrations of potential prey that may be drivers of habitat use by predatory species, incl...