to minimize the risk of embolic events, several protection strategies have been introduced. we have evaluated the short-term outcome of patients who underwent carotid stenting with the routine use of cerebral protection devices. in our center, 36 successful carotid stenting procedures (of 38 attempted) were performed in 37 patients (23 men; age mean [sd] 667 years). cerebral protection involv...

In this pare, a wideband three-order bandpass filter (BPF) is proposed. The proposed wideband filter is designed using the substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) structure by loading T-shape slots. A BPF with two resonators is formed by etching T-shape slots with different size on the top metal plane of the SIW structure. The filter is investigated with the theory of coupled resonator circuits. T...

The vulnerability of civil GPS receiver to interference may be intentional or unintentional. Among all types of interference, replay attack intended as the most dangerous intentional one. The signal structure of replay attack is almost the same with the satellite signal. The interference effects can be reduce with the design of an appropriate filter in the receiver. This paper presents two meth...

this paper presents a novel microstrip low-pass filter with good performance. a complete detailed theoretical analysis for the proposed filter is given using equivalent circuit models. the proposed filter applying multiple cascaded modified radial stubs resonators provides a sharp cut off frequency response that has a 185 db/ghz roll off rate. also, u-shaped attenuators provide a wide stop-band...

in order to compare sampling efficiencies of total and inhalable dust methods, three airborne dust sampling systems , 7-hole sampler , close and open face filter cassette were compared side-by-side , as stationary and for the personal samplers , in a wood working industry to evaluate their relative efficiency. a total of 162 samples were collected. the study of particle size distribution by cas...

Purpose of Review Patients suffering from Parkinson's disease (PD) are known to experience gastrointestinal dysfunction that might precede the onset of motor symptoms by several years. Evidence suggests an important role of the gut-brain axis in PD pathogenesis. These interactions might be essentially influenced by the gut microbiota. Here, we review recent findings supporting that changes in t...

HCN channels comprise a small subfamily of proteins within the superfamily of pore-loop cation channels. In mammals, the HCN channel family includes four members (HCN1-4) that are expressed in the heart and in the nervous system. Hyperpolarization-activated cation currents produced by HCN channels (Ih, If or Iq), contribute to a wide range of physiological functions including cardiac and neuron...

this paper presents an innovative active power filter design method to simultaneously compensate the current harmonics and reactive power of a nonlinear load. the power filter integrates a passive power filter which is a rl low-pass filter placed in series with the load, and an active power filter which comprises an rl in series with an igbt based voltage source converter. the filter is assumed...

In this paper, we study residuated lattices in order to give new characterizations for dense, regular and Boolean elements in residuated lattices and investigate special residuated lattices in order to obtain new characterizations for the directly indecomposable subvariety of Stonean residuated lattices. Free algebra in varieties of Stonean residuated lattices is constructed. We introduce in re...