The management of high blood pressure (BP) is particularly inadequate in low-income countries, where the unavailability of a reliable, durable, and affordable BP-measurement device is a major obstacle to accurate diagnosis. Recognizing this, a World Health Organization committee was established to correct this deficiency by influencing manufacturers to produce a device according to predetermine...

Hemangioma is a benign tumor of infancy whose hallmark is rapid growth during the first year of life followed by slow regression during early childhood. The proliferating phase is characterized by abundant immature endothelial cells, the involuting phase by prominent endothelial-lined vascular channels and endothelial apoptosis, and the involuted phase by few remaining capillary-like vessels su...

We propose an extension of the expectation-maximization (EM) algorithm, called the hyperpenalized EM (HEM) algorithm, that maximizes a penalized log-likelihood, for which some data are missing or unavailable, using a data-adaptive estimate of the penalty parameter. This is potentially useful in applications for which the analyst is unable or unwilling to choose a single value of a penalty param...

We motivate and describe a mode of operation HEM (resp., THEM) that turns a n-bit blockcipher into a variable-input-length cipher (resp., tweakable cipher) that acts on strings of [n..2n − 1] bits. Both HEM and THEM are simple and intuitive and use only two blockcipher calls, while prior work at least takes three. We prove them secure in the sense of strong PRP and tweakable strong PRP, assumin...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to determine the accuracy of the Omron HEM-7320-LA with Intelli Wrap technology cuff HEM-FL1 for self-measurement and clinic blood pressure (BP) measurement according to the European Society of Hypertension International Protocol revision 2010. PARTICIPANTS AND METHODS The evaluation was performed in 39 individuals. The mean age of the participants was 47.9...

In this paper, we develop a new method of three-dimensional (3-D) inversion of multi-transmitter electromagnetic data. We apply the spectral Lanczos decomposition method (SLDM) in the framework of the localized quasi-linear inversion introduced by Zhdanov and Tartaras (2002 Geophys. 1. Int. 148 506-19). The SLDM makes it possible to find the regularized solution of the ill-posed inverse problem...

A 58-year-old man underwent laparoscopy-assisted distal gastrectomy (LADG) with Billroth I gastroduodenostomy due to early gastric cancer. During surgery, the perigastric vessels were ligated with Hem-o-Lok clips. Esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) 6 months later showed a fungating mass at the anastomosis site. Repeat EGD 1 year after LADG showed a Hem-o-Lok clip at the fungating mass lesion. Bec...

In the last decades, helicopter-borne electromagnetic (HEM) method became a focus of interest in the fields of mineral exploration, geological mapping, groundwater resource investigation and environmental monitoring. As a standard approach, researchers use 1-D inversion of the acquired HEM data to recover the conductivity/resistivity-depth models. Since the relation between HEM data and model ...