OBJECTIVE The heterogeneity in the degree of collateralization among patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) remains incompletely understood. We evaluated the predictors of poorly developed coronary collateral circulation (CCC) in patients with stable coronary artery disease. METHODS Current study is a retrospective study, consisting of 118 patients with poor CCC and 130 patients with goo...

The consequences of photoexcitation of a platinum diimine bisacetylide complex and its triads with phenothiazine species (McGarrah, J. E.; Eisenberg, R. Inorg. Chem. 2003, 42, 4355-4365) were investigated by the photoinduced transient displacement current (PTDC) method, with the aim of understanding the role of solvent in defining the nature and extent of intratriad electron transfer. PTDC enab...

BACKGROUND There is currently no reliable serum biomarker for ovarian clear cell carcinoma (CCC), a highly lethal histological subtype of epithelial ovarian cancer (EOC). Previously, using a proteome-based approach, we identified tissue factor pathway inhibitor 2 (TFPI2) as a candidate serum biomarker for CCC. In this study, we sought to evaluate the clinical diagnostic performance of TFPI2 in ...

In this study, a method using liquid chromatography triple quadrupole mass spectrometry (LC/MS/MS) is described for the analysis of the plant growth regulator chlormequat (CCC) in human urine. Analysis was carried out using selected reaction monitoring (SRM) in the positive ion mode. [(2)H(4)] labeled CCC as internal standard (IS) was used for quantification of CCC. The limit of detection (LOD)...

Countercurrent chromatography (CCC) is a liquid chromatography technique in which the stationary phase is also a liquid. The solute separation is based on partitioning between the two immiscible liquid phases: the mobile phase and the support-free liquid stationary phase. Octanol-water partition coefficients (Po/w) of 17 βblockers and 17 sulphonamides were determined by CCC. Some of the Po/w co...

A cryogenic current comparator(CCC) is based on the properties of ideal superconductors to expel magnetic flux from the bulk material through shielding currents on the surface of the material. As this effect is only dependent on the magnetic field, the CCC allows measuring the magnetic field, e.g. generated by a passing ion beam, they can be measured non-destructively with a high precision. In ...

Preparata and Vuillemin proposed the cube connected cycles CCC in and in the same paper gave an asymptotically optimal layout scheme for the CCC While all the known optimal layouts including the Preparata Vuillemin layout of the CCC have long wires we give a new layout scheme which has no long wires while keeping the asymptotically optimal area Hence we can conclude that the CCC can be laid out...

In this paper, we present and analyze yield enhancement designs for wafer scale Cube Connected Cycles (CCC). Improvements in yield can be achieved through silicon area reduction and/or through the incorporation of defect/fault tolerance into the architecture. Consequently, we first propose a new compact layout strategy for CCC. We then present a novel implementation of wafer scale CCC based on ...

BACKGROUND The outcome of Chagas disease patients after receiving implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) is still controversial. OBJECTIVE To compare clinical outcomes after ICD implantation in patients with chronic Chagas cardiomyopathy (CCC) and ischemic heart disease (IHD). METHODS Prospective study of a population of 153 patients receiving ICD (65 with CCC and 88 with IHD). The de...