To the Editor: The recent article published in Circulation by Krahn et al1 underlines the usefulness of implantable loop recorders in the investigation of unexplained syncope. Patients with unexplained syncope were randomized to a “conventional” investigation strategy or to a “prolonged monitoring” strategy with an implantable loop recorder, with the latter strategy yielding a higher diagnostic...

BACKGROUND Disk-associated cervical spondylomyelopathy (DA-CSM) is a multifactorial neurological disorder in which progressive caudal cervical spinal cord compression is mainly caused by one or more intervertebral disk protrusions. The Doberman pinscher breed seems predisposed for this condition. The underlying cause and pathophysiology of DA-CSM are currently unknown. Recently, wider intervert...

UNLABELLED A recent study observed a survival benefit in men diagnosed with metastatic prostate cancer (mPCa) and managed with local treatment of the primary tumor (LT; either radical prostatectomy plus pelvic lymph node dissection or radiation therapy). We tested the hypothesis that only specific mPCa patients would benefit from LT and that the potential benefit would vary based on primary tum...

Cooperative spatial multiplexing (CSM) system has played an important role in wireless networks by offering a substantial improvement in multiplexing gain compared with its cooperative diversity counterpart. However, there is a limited number of research works that consider the performance of CSM systems. As such, in this paper, we have derived exact performance of CSM with amplify-and-forward ...

A subset of patients with a demyelinating disease suffer from concurrent cervical spondylotic myelopathy, both of which evince similar symptomatology. Differentiating the cause of these symptoms is challenging, and little research has been done on patients with coexisting diseases. This review explores the current literature on the appropriate surgical management of patients with concurrent mul...

If we lack an objective human expert oracle which can assess a system, and if we lack a library of known or desired behaviour, how can we assess an expert system? One method for doing so is a critical success metric (CSM). A CSM is an assessment of a running program which reflects the business concerns that prompted the creation of that program. Given pre-disaster knowledge, a CSM can be used w...

Cervical spondylotic myelopathy (CSM) is the most common cause of spinal cord dysfunction in older individuals. It results when spondylotic changes lead to cervical cord injury with resulting clinical deficits. Diagnosis is made based on clinical and radiographic features. A patient must have both symptoms and signs consistent with cervical cord injury as well as radiographic evidence of spondy...

The algebraic structure and the relationships between the eigenspaces of the Calogero-Sutherland model (CSM) and the Sutherland model (SM) on a circle are investigated through the Cherednik operators. We find an exact connection between the simultaneous non-symmetric eigenfunctions of the AN−1 Cherednik operators, from which the eigenfunctions of the CSM and SM are constructed, and the monomial...

Five organic supplements namely cotton seed meal (CSM), peanut meal (PM), wheat bran (WB), rice bran (RB) and soybean meal (SBM) were supplemented to the wheat straw @ 10% and 20% (on dry weight basis). Mycelial growth and enzyme activity of Lentinus edodes strain Le-S were recorded at periodic intervals of 10 d upto 30 d. Maximum mycelial extension rate was obtained with 10% rice bran suppleme...

BACKGROUND AND METHODS To assess the precise mechanisms of stroke in cancer patients, we analyzed the data for cancer patients with acute ischemic stroke registered from 6 centers in South Korea. Clinical features, risk factors, diffusion-weighted imaging lesion patterns, and laboratory findings including D-dimer levels were compared between patients with conventional stroke mechanisms (CSMs) a...