presence of patent or nonpatent grafts. This construct, termed a vascularization index (VI), was used to evaluate left ventricular function and anginal symptoms after coronary artery bypass surgery in 56 patients. Patients with an increase in local or total arterial blood supply (positive AVI) often had similar directional changes in segmental wall motion and ventricular ejection fraction. Pati...

Fluoropyruvate has been shown to interact with thiol compounds (Avi-Dor & Mager, 1956a; Peters & Hall, 1957). Its inhibitory action on the respiration of mitochondria (Avi-Dor & Mager, 1956b; Chari-Bitron & Avi-Dor, 1958) and of tissue celLs (Traub & Ginzburg, 1959) is presumably due to combination with thiol groups. We have observed that, during an incubation of the product formed between glut...

Approximate value iteration (AVI) is a widely used technique in reinforcement learning. Most AVI methods do not take full advantage of the sequential relationship between samples within a trajectory in deriving value estimates, due to the challenges in dealing with the inherent bias and variance in the n-step returns. We propose a bounding method which uses a negatively biased but relatively lo...

The present study aimed to investigate the properties of a promising bone scaffold for bone repair, which consisted of a novel composite of adipose-derived stem cells (ADSCs) attached to a porous β-tricalcium phosphate (β-TCP) scaffold with platelet-rich plasma (PRP). The β-TCP powder was synthesized and its composition was determined using X-ray diffraction and Fourier transform infrared spect...

BACKGROUND/AIMS The influence of TAS2R38 haplotype on the relationship between the perceived intensity of propylthiouracil (PROP) and the basic tastes of salt, sweet, sour, and bitter (quinine) was evaluated in the Beaver Dam Offspring Study. METHODS Genotyping was performed on 1,670 participants aged ≥45 years (mean age = 54.4; range = 45-84), and suprathreshold taste intensity was measured ...

In modeling physical systems, it is sometimes useful to construct border bases of 0-dimensional polynomial ideals which are contained in the ideal generated by a given set of polynomials. We define and construct such subideal border bases, provide some basic properties and generalize a suitable variant of the Buchberger-Möller algorithm as well as the AVI-algorithm of [5] to the subideal settin...

The standard view in epistemology is that propositional knowledge entails belief. Positive arguments are seldom given for this entailment thesis, however; instead, its truth is typically assumed. Against the entailment thesis, Myers-Schulz and Schwitzgebel (forthcoming) report that a non trivial percentage of people think that there can be propositional knowledge without belief. In this paper, ...

Amortized variational inference (AVI) replaces instance-specific local inference with a global inference network. While AVI has enabled efficient training of deep generative models such as variational autoencoders (VAE), recent empirical work suggests that inference networks can produce suboptimal variational parameters. We propose a hybrid approach, to use AVI to initialize the variational par...