BACKGROUND Sudden cardiac death (SCD) and pump failure death (PFD) are common endpoints in chronic heart failure (CHF) patients, but prevention strategies are different. Currently used tools to specifically predict these endpoints are limited. We developed risk models to specifically assess SCD and PFD risk in CHF by combining ECG markers and clinical variables. METHODS The relation of clinic...

BACKGROUND Clinical prognostic groupings for localised prostate cancers are imprecise, with 30-50% of patients recurring after image-guided radiotherapy or radical prostatectomy. We aimed to test combined genomic and microenvironmental indices in prostate cancer to improve risk stratification and complement clinical prognostic factors. METHODS We used DNA-based indices alone or in combination...

plastic instability which results in the localization and failure of sheet metals has been studied in equibiaxial stretching of commercial purity aluminium sheet. attention was focussed on two main industrial conditions of the material. these were representative of the materials that could be processed by the commercial batchannealing process (slow heating, long time) or by a continuous anneali...

1. introduction thunderstorms or lightning storms are kinds of storms that generally are associated with the convective clouds and usually are resulted in hailing, strong winds, and flash floods. clouds of convective storms are observed in most regions, but a small percentage of the convective storms can produce severe weather conditions and flash floods that cause damages. a flash flood is a d...

Abstract Voltage instability is a serious phenomenon that can occur in power system because of critical or stressed conditions. To prevent voltage collapse caused by such instability, accurate prediction necessary for planning and operation. This paper proposes novel index ( NCPI ) to assess the stability conditions lines. The effectiveness applicability proposed are investigated on IEEE 30-bus...