This study investigates whether the stress foot is a planned timing unit in American English, by examining the durational characteristics of the foot in three different prosodic contexts i) within an intermediate phrase, ii) across an intermediate phrase and iii) across an intonational phrase. The results show that as the number of syllables in a foot increases, the duration of the foot increas...

BACKGROUND Heart failure from adverse ventricular remodeling follows myocardial infarction, but the contribution of periinfarct and remote myocardium to the development of cardiomyopathy remains poorly defined. 2D strain echocardiography (2DSE) is a novel and sensitive tool to measure regional myocardial mechanics. The aim is to quantify radial strain in infarcted (I), periinfarct (PI) and remo...

We hypothesized that the endogenous coronary vasodilator adenosine may reduce infarct size by progressively increasing reflow in a preparation of coronary occlusion-reperfusion. After 90 min of proximal left anterior descending artery occlusion, 20 dogs were randomized to blood reperfusion with (n = 10) or without (n = 10) adenosine into the proximal left anterior descending vessel at 3.75 mg/m...

Rats and genetically manipulated mouse models have played an important role in the exploration of molecular causes of cardiovascular diseases. However, it has not been fully investigated whether mice or rats and humans manifest similar patterns of ventricular wall motion. Although similarities in anatomy and myofiber architecture suggest that fundamental patterns of ventricular wall motion may ...

PURPOSE To evaluate the long-term (> 5 y) outcomes of radial shortening osteotomy and vascularized bone graft in Kienböck disease patients. METHODS In a retrospective study of 16 patients with early stage Kienböck disease, 9 patients with average follow-up of 6.4 years had radial shortening osteotomy (group 1), and 7 with average follow-up of 6.5 years had pedicled vascularized bone graft bas...

This study utilized porcine models of postinfarction left ventricular (LV) remodeling [myocardial infarction (MI); n = 8] and concentric LV hypertrophy secondary to aortic banding (AoB; n = 8) to examine the relationships between regional myocardial contractile function (tagged MRI), wall stress (MRI and LV pressure), and bioenergetics ((31)P-magnetic resonance spectroscopy). Physiological asse...

In this paper we present an experiment to determine the types of constituents that influence polysyllabic shortening. Materials were designed to encourage the use of rhythmic, prominencebased, cross-word (Abercrombian) feet. Our preliminary results suggest that when polysyllabic shortening occurs, it operates preferentially within word-based constituents of the prosodic hierarchy (Selkirk [9], ...