SLE is an inflammatory disease of unknown etiology with the potential of affecting virtually all organ systems. Cardiovascular involvement occurs frequently, although it is often mild enough not to cause clinical concern. Pericarditis is most commonly subclinical, noted only on echocardiogram. Pericardial fluid, which can accumulate rapidly enough to cause tamponade, is inflammatory in nature a...

In the last decade a considerable number of papers have been written describing fatal illnesses in which the salient clinical features were asthma, eosinophilia, and heart failure. Weir (1939), Harkavy (1941), Chafee, Ross, and Gunn (1942), Miller and Daley (1946), Bergstrand (1946), Smith (1948), and Lennox (1948) have all reported such cases, the clinical course of which differed little from ...

This article describes an end-effector and a method for manipulating deformable objects with undefined shapes and geometry such as sacks and bags. The first prototype end-effector, designed for applications in the U.S. Postal Service, comprises two parallel rollers with gripping sur-faces, where the rollers are pushed towards each other. When the end-effector comes onto contact with any portion...

Preliminary work introduced Non-Renegable Selective Acknowledgments (NR-SACKs) and showed they (i) better utilize a data sender’s memory in both SCTP and CMT, and (ii) improve throughput in CMT. In this paper, we provide the latest specification of NR-SACKs, and extend the investigation of throughput improvements that NR-SACKs can provide. Using ns-2 simulation, for various loss conditions and ...