Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a common arrhythmia, with a prevalence that increases markedly with increasing age. Presence of AF has implications for management of future stroke risk. If the patient's pulse is irregular, an electrocardiogram should be ordered. Key management decisions are whether to adopt a rhythm control or a rate control strategy and whether to initiate anticoagulation. The pri...

The term retained products of conception (RPOC) refers to intrauterine tissue that develops after conception and persists after medical and surgical pregnancy termination, miscarriage, and vaginal or cesarean delivery. One of the most important factor risk for RPOC is placenta accreta, defined as "the abnormal adherence, either in whole or in part, of the afterbirth to the underlying uterine wa...

Abnormal uterine bleeding related to ovulatory dysfunction (i.e., oligo-ovulation and anovulation) is a range of disorders often associated with heavy, irregular bleeding. Assessment includes a medical history, physical examination, and selected laboratory and imaging tests (i.e., pregnancy test; beta subunit of human chorionic gonadotropin test; measurement of thyroid-stimulating hormone and p...

(in a case of complete senile prolapse). ?Mrs D., 81, had one child, shortly after which her husband died. For many years she had suffered from complete prolapse of the uterus, for which she formerly used Zwanke's pessaries, but as they always broke, she has of late years left it to itself. She is and has always been an extremely healthy woman, and at present looks much younger than her age. Si...

BACKGROUND Endometrial breakthrough bleeding is characterized by an inflammatory reaction and increased production of proinflammatory mediators, one of which may be epithelial neutrophil-activating peptide-78 (ENA-78), a chemokine with neutrophil-activating properties. METHODS AND RESULTS We therefore investigated the endometrial expression of ENA-78 in Norplant users as progestin-only contra...

We present a simple method for improving the rendered appearance of coarse triangular meshes. We refine and modify the geometry along silhouette edges in real-time, and thus increase the geometric complexity only where needed. We address how to define the improved silhouette and a method to blend the modified and the original geometry continuously. §

Irregular Incurve is a MIDI controllable robotic string instrument. The twelve independent string-units compose the complete musical scale of 12 units. Each string can be plucked by a motor control guitar pick. A MIDI keyboard is attached to the instrument and serves as an interface for real-time interactions between the instrument and the audience. Irregular Incurve can also play preprogrammed...

Non-rigid shape matching is one of the most challenging fields in content-based 3D object retrieval. The aim of the SHREC 2010 Shape Retrieval Contest of Non-rigid 3D Models is to evaluate and compare the effectiveness of different methods run on a non-rigid 3D shape benchmark consisting of 200 watertight triangular meshes. Three groups with six methods have participated in this track and the r...

Article history: Received 16 August 2015 Received in revised form 3 December 2015 Accepted 17 December 2015 Available online 21 December 2015

A new and simple approach for calculating the eigenstructure of a regular matrix pencil is presented. This proposed approach transforms the generalized eigenvalues problem into a usual eigenvalues problem, and it also can be used to calculate the Weierstrass form of a regular matrix pencil. Mathematics Subject Classification: 93B55