We present a case of successful surgical resection of a giant left ventricular (LV) pseudoaneurysm that developed 5 yr after mitral valve replacement (MVR). A 59-yr-old female was admitted with exertional chest pain radiating to left arm and back. 64-slice multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) revealed significant stenosis on the ostium of the first diagonal branch of the left anterior desce...

geophysical techniques remain the only ways to remotely and non-destructively sense the earth’s near subsurface and as such have the most promising prospect for rapid and accurate detection of underground tunnels. today, electrical resistivity and seismic refraction geophysical methods have been greatly developed to identify structures and underground cavities. in this study, the ability of the...

Widespread use of the SSH protocol greatly reduces the risk of remote computer access by encoding the transmission of clear text usernames and passwords. Prior to the use of SSH, packet sniffing, which allows malicious users to watch for the login process in the clear text packet traffic on a network segment, was an easy method for a malicious user to gain unauthorized access to a machine. Unfo...

The city bypass tunnel of Waidhofen an der Ybbs (Austria) is situated in an intricate geological-geotechnical complex consisting of soil, hard soil, weak rock and solid rock. Marls and marly limestone (Waidhofener formation) predominate followed by tectonic breccia of the Alpine cliff zone, which is a tectonic melange zone. Materials of this kind universally have isolated interior blocks embedd...

The management of multiligament knee injury is a complex process starting with the adequate identification of the injury. A detailed physical and radiographic examination with a thorough understanding of knee anatomy is crucial to assess all damaged structures: anterior cruciate ligament, posterior cruciate ligament, posteromedial corner including the medial collateral ligament, and posterolate...

Nation-states and other organizations are increasingly deploying deep-packet inspection (DPI) technologies to censor Internet traffic based on application-layer content. We introduce a new DPI circumvention approach, format-transforming encryption (FTE), that cryptographically transforms the format of arbitrary plaintext data (e.g. packet contents) into specified formats that are designed to by...

in this paper the separation of saffron stigma from stamen and petal in a vertical wind tunnel has been evaluated. a wind tunnel with adjustable speed of 0.1 m s-1 intervals has been developed and used for the experiments. floating velocities of flower components (petal, stigma and stamen) were measured at one, eight, 38 and 60 hours after harvesting. subsequently, the separation was tested by ...

conclusions no significant difference in reducing post bypass inflammation between preoperative steroid treatment and combined preoperative and intraoperative steroid administration reported and they had the same effects. results in both groups, no significant difference with variation of expression for il-6 (inflammatory factor) and il-10 (anti-inflammatory factor) in different times after byp...

  Abstract   Background: The pathophysiology of carpal tunnel syndrome is associated with   increased intracarpal canal pressure. Recently, palmaris longus has been introduced   as an independent risk factor for the development of carpal tunnel syndrome. The   purpose of this study was to assess the association of carpal tunnel syndrome with   the presence of palmaris longus tendon and function...