Shusterman V, McTiernan CF, Goldberg A, Saba S, Salama G, London B. Adrenergic stimulation promotes T-wave alternans and arrhythmia inducibility in a TNFgenetic mouse model of congestive heart failure. Am J Physiol Heart Circ Physiol 298: H440–H450, 2010. First published November 25, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpheart.01024.2008.— T-wave alternans (TWA) is a proarrhythmic repolarization instability tha...

Liu, Yuxin. Ph.D., Purdue University, August, 2004. Layered Scalable and Low Complexity Video Encoding: New Approaches and Theoretic Analysis. Major Professors: Edward J. Delp and Paul Salama. Transmission of digital video signals over current data networks demands efficient, reliable, and adaptable video coding techniques due to the heterogeneous nature of current wired and wireless networks. ...

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Cluster sampling has recently been used to estimate the mortality in various conflicts around the world. The Burnham et al. (2006) study on Iraq employs a new variant of this cluster sampling methodology. The stated methodology of Burnham et al. (2006) is to (1) select a random main street, (2) choose a random cross street to this main street, and (3) select a random household on the cross stre...

Acknowledgements We thank Dr. Clifton Ragsdale and Atul Mallik for helpful discussion. Abstract The organization of primary visual cortex has been heavily studied for nearly 50 years, and in the last 20 years functional imaging has provided high resolution maps of its tangential organization. Recently, however, the usefulness of maps like those of orientation and spatial frequency preference ha...

Background: Frozen shoulder is prevalent among diabetic patients, and usually has aggressive course, with more tendency to be bilateral resistant treatment. Suprascapular nerve block (SSNB) used increasing frequency by anesthetists rheumatologists in the management of frozen shoulder. We previously introduced a protocol nine injections for SSNB better short term outcome than single injection (1...

CD4 CD25 T cells are now well established as naturally occurring immune regulatory T cells. Resurrected from the suppressor T cell adversity, Sakaguchi et al. (1) showed in mid-1990 that a subset of CD4 T cells expressing IL-2 receptor chain in naı̈ve animals had the ability to control autoreactive T cells in vivo. These T cells were not only hyporesponsive to antigenic stimulation but also supp...

Interand circumstellar ices comprise different molecules accreted on cold dust particles. These icy dust grains provide a molecule reservoir where particles can interact and react. As the grain acts as a third body, capable of absorbing energy, icy surfaces in space have a catalytic effect. Chemical reactions are triggered by a number of possible processes; (i) irradiation by light, typically U...

In their paper on category structures, Gazdar et al. (1988) define a constraint language L c for categories and a logic A c of admissible category structures. ~ The intuitive idea is that for a constraint $ expressed in L c, ~b is a nontrivial constraint if and only if A c 14 th; and it is a satisfiable constraint if and only if Ac 14 -nth. From a practical point of view it is therefore importa...

Neo-Fregean approaches to set theory, following Frege, have it that sets are the extensions of concepts, where concepts are the values of second-order variables. e idea is that, given a second-order entity X, there may be an object εX, which is the extension of X. Other writers have also claimed a similar relationship between second-order logic and set theory, where sets arise from pluralities....