Direção de Serviços de Biodiversidade e Política do Mar, Direção Regional dos Assuntos do Mar, Secretaria Regional do Mar, Ciência e Tecnologia, Colónia Alemã, Portugal, 2 Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, UK, MARE – Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre Azores, Horta, Portugal, OKEANOS-Research Center, University of the Azores, H...

BACKGROUND Final infarct size following coronary occlusion is determined by the duration of ischemia, the size of myocardium at risk (MaR) and reperfusion injury. The reference method for determining MaR, single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) before reperfusion, is impractical in an acute setting. The aim of the present study was to evaluate whether MaR can be determined from the c...

AIMS To determine the myocardial salvage index, the extent of infarction needs to be related to the myocardium at risk (MaR). Thus, the ability to assess both infarct size and MaR is of central clinical and scientific importance. The aim of the present study was to explore the relationship between T2-weighted cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) and contrast-enhanced steady-state free precession (C...

We propose the use of Multivariate Autoregressive (MAR) models of fMRI time series to make inferences about functional integration within the human brain. The method is demonstrated with synthetic and real data showing how such models are able to characterise inter-regional dependence. We extend linear MAR models to accommodate nonlinear interactions to model top-down modulatory processes with ...

Augmented Reality (AR) and Mobile Augmented Reality (MAR) applications have gained much research and industry aŠention these days. Œe mobile nature of MAR applications limits users’ interaction capabilities such as inputs, and haptic feedbacks. Œis survey reviews current research issues in the area of human computer interaction for MAR and haptic devices. Œe survey €rst presents human sensing c...

Several best effort schemes (next-hop routing) are used to transport the data in the Internet. Some of them do not perform flexible route computations to cope up with the network dynamics. With the recent trends in programmable networks, mobile agent technology seems to support more flexible, adaptable and distributed mechanism for routing. In this paper, we propose a Mobile Agent based Routing...

Centered in the Chinese hamster dihydrofolate reductase origin of replication is a prominent nuclear matrix attachment region (MAR). Indirect lines of evidence suggested that this MAR might be required for origin activation in early S phase. To test this possibility, we have deleted the MAR from a Chinese hamster ovary variant harboring a single copy of the dihydrofolate reductase locus. Howeve...

BACKGROUND Accurate assessment of myocardium at risk (MaR) after acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is necessary when assessing myocardial salvage. Contrast-enhanced steady-state free precession (CE-SSFP) is a recently developed cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) method for assessment of MaR up to 1 week after AMI. Our aim was to validate CE-SSFP for determination of MaR in an experimental ...