BACKGROUND Glucose-insulin-potassium infusions are beneficial in uncomplicated patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) but are of unproven efficacy in AMI with left ventricular (LV) dysfunction because of volume requirements associated with glucose infusion. Glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) is a naturally occurring incretin with both insulinotropic and insulinomimetic properties that sti...

In this paper we present a generic system for audio indexing (classification/ segmentation) and apply it to two usual problems: speech/ music segmentation and music genre recognition. We first present some requirements for the design of a generic system. The training part of it is based on a succession of four steps: feature extraction, feature selection, feature space transform and statistical...

Increasing amounts of data have recently been published regarding ultrasonographic (US) findings of osteoarthritic joints, but very few data concern hip joints. In the current study we described US patterns concerning 490 patients affected by symptomatic hip osteoarthritis (OA) who underwent to intra-articular injections of hyaluronic products under US guidance. All patients were studied by US ...

Few data exist regarding the consequences of abnormalities of segmental contraction on intraventricular flow patterns. The development of color Doppler flow imaging has now permitted the visualization of intraventricular blood flow patterns. Therefore, we performed Doppler flow mapping in 41 patients (12 with normal left ventricular contraction, eight with hypokinesis or akinesis, and 21 with d...

Recent applications of constraint programming to entertainment, e.g., music or video, call for global constraints describing the structure of temporal sequences. A typical constraint approach is to model each temporal event in the sequence with one variable, and to state constraints on these indexed variables. However, this approach hampers the statement of constraints involving events based on...

Controversy exists as to whether self-reported sleep quality declines with age, despite changes in sleep being accepted as part of normal aging. This study sought to investigate age-related differences in self-reported sleep quality, after controlling for conditions that are common with age, such as psychological symptoms and increased risk of sleep-disordered breathing (SDB). The Pittsburgh Sl...

In the present paper, we test extension of Fama-French (FF) three-factor model by including Economic, stock market, and Pandemic news uncertainty. For this purpose, used either Global or social media (Twitter) sentiment indexes, along with Mexican U.S. implied volatility (VIX) ones. Using robust panel data regression models in 72 most traded biggest companies markets from 2017 to 2021, found th...

This paper deals with one of the new emerging multimedia data types, namely, handwritten cursive text. The paper presents two indexing methods for searching a collection of cursive handwriting. The first index, called word-level index, treats word as pictogram and uses global features for representing the cursive words and their retrieval. Each word (or stroke) can be described with a set of fe...

Natively unfolded proteins lack a well defined three dimensional structure but have important biological functions, suggesting a re-assignment of the structure-function paradigm. Many proteins have amino acidic compositions compatible both with the folded and unfolded status, and belong to a twilight zone between order and disorder. This makes difficult a dichotomic classification of protein se...

Using simultaneous pressure-volume measurements obtained during cardiac catheterization, we employ the thermodynamic phase-plane (TPP) method to characterize global contraction-relaxation coupling (CRC) between normal and impaired left ventricular (LV) ejection fraction (LVEF) groups. The cardiac cycle inscribes a closed loop in the TPP defined by the coordinates "potential" power [V(dP/dt), er...