Abstract Funding Acknowledgements Type of funding sources: None. Background Myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) by 15O-H2O positron emission tomography (PET) has excellent diagnostic accuracy for detecting significant coronary stenoses and consequently revascularization in patients with angina no previous artery disease (CAD). However, arrhythmias such as atrial fibrillation (AF) are thought to ...

Binary Decision Diagrams (BDDs) are frequently used in many applications in VLSI CAD. However, they are very sensitive to the variable ordering and their size often becomes infeasible. Recently, a new approach for BDD minimization based on Linear Transformations (LTs), i.e. a special type of spectral techniques, has been proposed. We present an Evolutionary Algorithm (EA) to find an LT for whic...

Binary Decision Diagrams (BDDs) are frequently used in many applications in VLSI CAD. However, they are very sensitive to the variable ordering and their size often becomes infeasible. Recently, a new approach for BDD minimization based on Linear Transformations (LTs), i.e. a special type of spectral techniques, has been proposed. We present an Evolutionary Algorithm (EA) to find an LT for whic...

Objectives. To evaluate the surface hardness of two light-cured resin cements polymerized under different ceramic discs. Methods. 40 experimental groups of 2 light-cured resin cement specimens (Variolink Veneer and NX3) were prepared and polymerized under 5 different ceramic discs (IPS e.max Press HT, LT, MO, HO, and Cercon) of 4 thicknesses (0.5, 1.0, 1.5, and 2.0 mm), Those directly activated...

BACKGROUND This study aimed to evaluate the effect of dental prophylaxis on the surface gloss and roughness of different indirect restorative materials for computer-aided design/computer-aided manufacturing (CAD/CAM): two types of CAD/CAM composite resin blocks (Shofu Block HC and Estelite Block) and two types of CAD/CAM ceramic blocks (IPS Empress CAD and Celtra DUO). MATERIAL AND METHODS Af...

As part of their immune system, plants have pattern recognition receptors (PRRs) that can detect a broad range of microbe-associated molecular patterns (MAMPs). Here, we identified a PRR of Arabidopsis thaliana with specificity for the bacterial MAMP eMax from xanthomonads. Response to eMax seems to be restricted to the Brassicaceae family and also varied among different accessions of Arabidops...

We introduce LT codes, the first rateless erasure codes that are very efficient as the data length grows.