In recent years, the use of MCS devices in treating patients with end-stage heart disease has increased significantly, as a bridge to transplantation and as destination therapy for transplant ineligible candidates. This increase is based on the accumulated experience with new second-generation continuous-flow devices which show significant improvements in survival, functional capacity and quali...

that he beautifully develops earlier in the work. More work on the functional consequences would allow him to fill in even more gaps in the literature. Even with these omissions, however, Cuff provides a valuable and nuanced view of the factors that influenced stature for these men in the antebellum period, and he also devises, very cleverly, a way around a troubling and persistent problem in t...

Digital offers clear logistical advantages, such as the ability to integrate mammography images and reports with the rest of the digital radiology enterprise. And all major trials completed to date have concluded that clinically, digital is at least equivalent to, if not statistically better than, screen-film. With the high spatial resolution so critical for detecting masses and microcalcificat...

The first human heart transplant performed in South Africa in 1967 by Christiaan Barnard, took considerable advantage of the pioneering experimental work by Alexis Carrel, Frank Mann, Norman Shumway, and Richard Lower [1-4]. The first heart transplant recipient recovered well initially, but died of pneumonia 18 days later. Initial outcomes were poor, due to a limited understanding of early post...

the social security act is called as a new branch of law. one of the important sections on social security criminal act is the section 97 which in this article will be studied with the aim of explaining of the article as one of the rules of social security, pathology and extending of the law literature of social security. this study shows that, while the 97 section creates and states the new an...

Cities are spaces of memory with several zones (parts of cities) with their own history and cultural events. Today, cities are also marked by a form of intangible cultural heritage like street art, which creates a visual culture based on the process of reflection about the city and the world. To link these realities and create a personal user interaction with this cultural heritage it is import...

This paper argues that methods used for the classification and measurement of online education are not neutral and objective, but involved in the creation of the educational realities they claim to measure. In particular, the paper draws on material semiotics to examine cluster analysis as a ‘performative device’ that, to a significant extent, creates the educational entities it claims to objec...