BACKGROUND Right atrial reentrant tachycardia resulting from lower loop reentry (LLR) around the inferior vena cava (IVC) has been described recently. However, all reported cases of LLR in the literature have negative flutter waves on the inferior surface ECG leads similar to that of counterclockwise typical atrial flutter around the tricuspid annulus (TA). Right atrial flutter with positive fl...

Torque motor produced stretch of upper limb muscles results in two distinct reflex peaks in the electromyographic activity. Whereas the short-latency reflex (SLR) response is mediated largely by the spinal monosynaptic reflex pathway, the longer-latency reflex (LLR) is suggested to involve a transcortical loop. For the SLRs, patterns of heteronymous monosynaptic Ia connections have been well-st...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to identify neurophysiologic markers generated by primary motor and premotor cortex for laryngeal muscles, recorded from laryngeal muscle. METHODS Ten right-handed healthy subjects underwent navigated transcranial magnetic stimulation (nTMS) and 18 patients underwent direct cortical stimulation (DCS) over the left hemisphere, while recording neurophysiologi...

In digital video broadcasting-handhelds (DVB-H), the contents to be transmitted come in the form of internet protocol (IP) datagram, which are passed to the multi-protocol encapsulation with forward error correction (MPE-FEC) entity. MPE-FEC employs erasure Reed-Solomon (eRS) error correction combined with cyclic redundancy check (CRC), is defined in standard. However, a critical factor must be...

For reasons such as low incidence, occurrence in groups frequently excluded from clinical trials and long onset times, some adverse drug reactions (ADRs) of a new medicinal product stay unnoticed until after market launch. The World Health Organization (WHO) in collaboration with the Uppsala Monitoring Centre (UMC) continuously collect spontaneous ADR reports from the entire world and use data ...

The aim of this study was to investigate the planktonic and the holobiont Madracis decactis (Scleractinia) microbial diversity along a turbulence-driven upwelling event, in the world's most isolated tropical island, St Peter and St Paul Archipelago (SPSPA, Brazil). Twenty one metagenomes were obtained for seawater (N = 12), healthy and bleached holobionts (N = 9) before, during and after the ep...

In the context of fast and low cost speaker recognition, this article investigates several techniques based on decision trees. A new approach is introduced where the trees are used to estimate a score function rather than returning a decision among classes. This technique is developed to approximate the GMM log-likelihood ratio (LLR) score function. On top of this approach, different solutions ...

Background and Objectives In addition to general advantages of laparoscopic over open surgery, such as better cosmesis and faster recovery, laparoscopic liver surgery offers specific advantages. Improved liver function and potentially earlier postoperative oncologic treatment are suggested by the literature as benefits of laparoscopic over open liver surgery. The purpose of this analysis was to...

PHYSICAL LAYER SECRET KEY AGREEMENT USING ONE-BIT QUANTIZATION AND LOW-DENSITY PARITY-CHECK CODES John A. Snoap Old Dominion University, 2016 Director: Dr. Dimitrie C. Popescu Physical layer approaches for generating secret encryption keys for wireless systems using channel information have attracted increased interest from researchers in recent years. This paper presents a new approach for cal...