INTRODUCTION High thoracic epidural anesthesia (TEA) causes blockade of sympathetic fibers involved in innervation of the heart (segments T1-T4), which results in changes of cardiac electrophysiology. The anti-arrhythmic effects of TEA on supraventricular arrhythmias, mainly atrial fibrillation, are controversial. THE AIM OF THE STUDY The aim of the study was to assess the influence of epidur...

In this paper we discuss the evidence for a period-luminosity (PL) relation and periodluminosity-colour (PLC) at maximum light for Mira variables. We confirm the existence of such relations in the J, H and K bands, and also based on bolometric magnitudes, for oxygen-rich (O) and carbon-rich (C) Miras in the LMC. We demonstrate that in the J and H bands the maximum light PL relations have a sign...

In this study, the effects of non-sidelooking airborne radar clutter dispersion on space-time adaptive processing (STAP) is considered, and an efficient adaptive angle-Doppler compensation (EAADC) approach is proposed to improve the clutter suppression performance. In order to reduce the computational complexity, the reduced-dimension sparse reconstruction (RDSR) technique is introduced into th...

A new method to reconstruct charged fragment four-momentum vectors from measured trajectories behind an open, large gap, magnetic dispersion element (a sweeper magnet) has been developed. In addition to the position and angle behind the magnet it includes the position measurement in the dispersive direction at the target. The method improves the energy and angle resolution of the reconstruction...

The guided wave has been widely employed to characterize thin plates and layered media. The dispersion curves of phase and group velocities are essential for the quantitative application of guided waves. The technique using leaky Lamb wave (LLW) is one of the excellent methods to obtain dispersion curves. In the present work, a fully automated system for the measurement of LLW has been develope...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which measures of lower extremity strength and power contribute to the ability of older men and women to restore postural equilibrium using a single-step recovery following a large postural disturbance. METHODS The postural disturbance, which has been used as a surrogate for forward-directed falls, involved a sudden release f...

Dispersion, as the characteristic variation of refractive index with wavelength, is more pronounced, where the wavelength is approaching to the absorption band. In ultra-optical glasses, the nonlinear refractive index, concerning to the light intensity dependent phenomenon, becomes considerable. Here, two ultra-optical property glass systems; TiO2-Bi2O3-PbO (TBP...

Negative Binomial (or Poisson-gamma) model has been used extensively by highway safety analysts because it can accommodate the over-dispersion, often exhibited in crash data. However, it has been reported in the literature that the maximum likelihood estimate of the dispersion parameter of NB models can be significantly affected when the data are characterized by small sample size and low sampl...

[1] A sequence of dye releases in the Hudson River estuary provide a quantitative assessment of horizontal dispersion in a partially mixed estuary. Dye was released in the bottom boundary layer on 4 separate occasions, with varying tidal phase and spring-neap conditions. The three-dimensional distribution of dye was monitored by two vessels with in situ, profiling fluorometers. The three-dimens...

In this paper, a vector channel model is proposed and some statistical properties of the asymptotic efficiency of the decorrelating detector with base-station antenna arrays are investigated. It is shown that we can get gain over the conventional decorrelator by employing antenna arrays and the gain increases as the number of antennas increases and the angle dispersion decreases. It is also sho...