After 2001 the upgraded ep collider HERA will provide an about five times higher luminosity for the two experiments H1 and ZEUS. In order to cope with the expected higher event rates the H1 collaboration is building a track based trigger system, the Fast Track Trigger (FTT). It will be integrated in the first three levels (L1–L3) of the H1 trigger scheme to provide higher selectivity for events...

Abstract Objective To assess the effect of cardiac surgery on growth catch-up Down syndrome (DS) children with failure to thrive (FTT) and congenital heart disease (CHD) investigate other causes FTT in DS children. Method We conducted a retrospective observational study tertiary center from 2015 2018. included all cases diagnosed CHD who completed 1-year follow-up after surgery. divided into tw...

Gastrostomy is one of the most common procedures performed in the pediatric population. The first gastrostomy was performed over 150 years ago, with the first successful attempts in children occurring in the late 1800’s. [1] The procedure and its use in Pediatric Surgery have significantly evolved over the past several decades with the introduction of endoscopic and laparoscopic techniques to s...

The endocrine system is crucial for maintaining whole-body homeostasis. Little is known regarding endocrine hormones secreted by the heart other than atrial/brain natriuretic peptides discovered over 30 years ago. Here, we identify growth differentiation factor 15 (GDF15) as a heart-derived hormone that regulates body growth. We show that pediatric heart disease induces GDF15 synthesis and secr...

BACKGROUND/AIM Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors are the most commonly chosen antidepressants in patients with Parkinson's disease (PD). The aim of our study was to assess the influence of fluoxetine (Flu) on motor functions in patients with PD. METHODS In this prospective, controlled, open-label study, 18 patients with PD and mild depression [(10 < or = Hamilton Rating Scale for Depres...

In this paper, we develop a novel formalization of Fuzzy Trace Theory (FTT), a leading theory of qualitative risky decision-making. Our model is the first to explicitly formalize and integrate the concepts of gist and the gist hierarchy. Domain knowledge constrains the space of possible decision problems, explaining which gists are chosen in which contexts. We test our model against risky-choic...

Here our goal was to determine the magnitude of sleep-related motor skill enhancement. Performance on the finger tapping task (FTT) was evaluated after a 90 min daytime nap (n=15) or after quiet wakefulness (n=15). By introducing a slight modification in the formula used to calculate the offline gains we were able to refine the estimated magnitude of sleep׳s effect on motor skills. The raw valu...

2 Executive Summary Failure to thrive (FTT) is a descriptive condition of a child who falls to the bottom 3 to 5% or lower on established growth charts (Wooster, 1999). Generally, failure to thrive is classified into three categories: non-organic or environmental, organic (attributable to organic disease), or mixed (interaction of organic and non-organic influences) (Drotar, 1991). In order to ...

Neurocognitive impairment is one the non-infectious comorbidities related to HIV infection [1]. An increasing number of studies have shown the importance of assessing attention, motor, memory and cognitive functions under standardized conditions [2]. We have designed a computerized assessment tool, adapting some well-known methods of neurocognitive evaluation, and we have initiated a pilot stud...