BACKGROUND Patients who develop recurrent myocardial ischemia after coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery are often referred for percutaneous coronary intervention. The objective of this study was to evaluate the clinical characteristics and peri-procedural outcomes in patients with prior CABG referred for percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) over a 3 year period. METHODS Data were ...

How to create effective body animations for virtual agents with emotions remains the state of the art for human animators and a great challenge for computer scientists. In this paper, we propose to use a model of hierarchal parameters to represent body animations: emotional, style, motion, and procedural parameters. Based on this model, we have created motions for a virtual character with gener...

Results 386 patients were enrolled over 18 months. The median age was 57 (IQR 38-70) years, 55% were male. All had ASA class score ≤ 3. Indications for procedural sedation were reduction of dislocations (52%), electro-cardioversion (32%), fracture reduction (9%) and abscess/wound treatment (6%). The median propofol dose was 1.0 mg/kg (0.70-1.5) and 44% also received fentanyl; median dose 1 mcg/...

Covered self-expandable metallic stents (CSEMS) may provide palliative drainage for unresectable distal malignant biliary strictures. Laser-cut CSEMS allows easy positioning due to its characteristic of minimal stent shortening. Endoscopic stent removal is sometimes recommended for recurrent biliary obstruction (RBO). However, there are no previous reports of endoscopic removal of laser-cut CSE...

empowerment employee is one of effective techniques to increase employee's productivity and efficient use of the capacity and capabilities of individual and group them in line with organizational goals. the aim of this study is to investigate the relationship of ethical leadership with psychological empowerment with mediating of procedural justice and interactional justice.participants inc...

Many phonological phenomena are conditioned by extra-phonological, especially morpho-syntactic information. The goal of this talk is to suggest that whenever there are concurrent representational and procedural solutions for the transmission of morpho-syntactic information , advantage is to be given to the latter. Indeed, we argue that procedural analyses allow for a control outside of the phon...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE There are a few reports regarding the outcome evaluation of balloon-expandable intracranial stent placement (BEICS). The purpose of our study was to evaluate the outcome and factors related to the adverse events (AEs) of BEICS. MATERIALS AND METHODS We evaluated 100 consecutive patients who underwent BEICS. We assessed the procedural success (residual stenosis < 50%), A...

A situated agent is a computer-basedsystem that is embedded in a realtime world or environment, is ascribed with some mental states, and may enjoy a disconcerting variety of properties such as proactivity, reactivity, etc. In this paper we present the design of a class of knowledge-based situated agents and an agent specification language, called SICLE . After the SICLE interpreter receives a S...