Approximately 40% of ischemic strokes have no clearly definable etiology and are termed cryptogenic strokes. Patent foramen ovale, a small communication between the left and right atria, is considered to be a risk factor for cerebral embolism. In this study, we report the case of a 29-year-old woman with diagnosis of ischemic stroke due to patent foramen ovale who has undergone percutaneous end...

The science of demography focuses on the drivers of population dynamics: fertility, mortality, and migration. Demography is inherently interdisciplinary and draws on theory from a range of social sciences, including sociology, economics, and anthropology. The demographers’ approach to fertility research at a given time is grounded in the contemporaneous fertility trends and fertility-related te...

Abstract Recently, IoT technologies have been progressed and applications of maintenance area are expected. However, IoT maintenance applications are not spread in Japan yet because of insufficient analysis of real time situation, high cost to collect sensing data and to configure failure detection rules. In this paper, using lambda architecture concept, we propose a maintenance platform in whi...

We have achieved a sustained calculation speed of 281 Tflops for the optimization of the 3-D structures of proteins from the X-ray experimental data by the Genetic Algorithm – Direct Space (GA-DS) method. In this calculation we used MDGRAPE-3, special-purpose computer for molecular simulations, with the peak performance of 752 Tflops. In the GA-DS method, a set of selected parameters which defi...

S. Eliza Halcomb, Evan Schwarz, and Michael E. Mullins OVERDOSES Overdose, General GENERAL PRINC IPLES ü According to the American Association of Poison Control Centers (AAPCC), there were over 2 million exposures and 1,146 fatalities related to toxins in 2010 (Clin Toxicol 49(10):910). Overdoses are common in the emergency department, and although they are rarely fatal, it is important to foll...