BACKGROUND Many graphical methods for displaying ST-segment deviation in the ECG have been tried for enhancing decision-making in patients with suspected acute coronary syndromes. Computed electrocardiographic imaging (CEI), based on a mathematical inverse solution, has been recently applied to transform ST-J point measurements made in conventional 12-lead ECG into a display of epicardial poten...

conclusions this study indicated that the rv systolic strain and strain rate can be used to detect early rv systolic dysfunction in ssc patients without pulmonary hypertension. these parameters may be useful for the provision of a more adequate management of ssc patients. results in the ssc patients, the rv strain (- 19 ± 10 vs. - 25 ± 4 %; p = 0.004) and the systolic strain rate (- 1.3 ± 0.5 v...

Recursive Feature Elimination (RFE) combined with feature ranking is an effective technique for eliminating irrelevant features when the feature dimension is large, but it is difficult to distinguish between relevant and redundant features. The usual method of determining when to stop eliminating features is based on either a validation set or cross-validation techniques. In this paper, we pres...

Lactic acid bacteria have been used for many years as natural bio preservatives in fermented foods and are also believed to have beneficial health effects on the host. However selection of strain is an important criteria which is mainly based on evaluating the physiological properties of the strain. In this study, lactic acid bacteria were isolated from various dairy, non-dairy and human source...

In the slitting method, a small width slit is created incrementally through the thickness of the stressed specimen and the released strains in each increment are recorded by a strain gauge. Compliance coefficients relate the measured strains to the residual stresses. This paper investigates the important parameters influencing the calculation of compliance coefficients for isotropic plates and ...

the effect of feeding different protein profiles on growth performance, carcass components and nitrogen content of litter in cobb 500 broiler strain was evaluated using 800 chicks in a completely randomized design with four treatments, five replicates groups of 40 birds per each treatment. the treatments were consisted of four protein feeding profiles (based on cobb strain nutrition guide, reco...

We present Continuum-based Strain Limiting (CSL) – a new method for limiting deformations in physically-based cloth simulations. Despite recent developments for nearly inextensible materials, the efficient simulation of general biphasic textiles and their anisotropic behavior remains challenging. Many approaches use soft materials and enforce limits on edge elongations, leading to discretizatio...

background: pastry occupation is one of occupations to exposure with heat and significant number of workers works at it. this study is aimed to heat stress and heat strain score index assessment in the pastry workers of isfahan.   methods: this cross sectional and descriptive study was conducted on 360 pastry workers between 10 and 14 hours in the summer of 2012. wbgt index was used for determi...