Aims We analysed the number of procedures, complications, and in-hospital mortality rates of all patients undergoing transvascular transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TV-TAVI) in comparison to isolated surgical aortic valve replacement (iSAVR) from 2014 to 2016 in Germany. Methods and results All aortic valve procedures performed in Germany are mandatorily registered in a quality control...

Objective To investigate potential associations of preoperative total testosterone (TT) with tumor volume (TV) and grade of prostate cancer (PCa). Methods Patients who were under medications impacting on the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal-testis-prostate axis were excluded. TT was measured preoperatively at least 1 month after biopsies and TV was calculated on the removed prostate specimen. O...

A government's response to increasing incidence of lifestyle-related illnesses, such as obesity, has been to encourage people to cook for themselves. The healthiness of home cooking will, nevertheless, depend on what people cook and how they cook it. In this article, one common source of cooking inspiration-Internet-sourced recipes-is investigated in depth. The energy and macronutrient content ...

The Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS Competence Center Future Applications and Media FAME researches and develops in the fields of interactive smart and social media services, cross-platform applications as well as personalized service offerings. All technical solutions comply with applicable international standards, such as DASH IF, the Open IPTV Forum, HbbTV and W3C. In this context, the theme of t...

Second screen applications are among the latest of the TV industry’s innovations to retain the TV viewer’s attention in a challenging multi-screen environment. These applications can be regarded as an extension of TV content consumed on a TV set towards lightweight portable devices such as tablets. While numerous commercial instances are available internationally and the existing literature on ...

ethods: This study drew on television ratings to examine the distribution of food advertising exposure among adolescents aged 12 through 17 based on 170 top-rated shows across network, cable and syndicated TV stations over the 9-month period from September 2003 to May 2004. A total of 238,353 30-second equivalent advertisements on the top-rated shows were assessed. Each advertisement was weight...

When my kids were young, one of their favorite TV shows was “The A-Team.” The plots of all the shows were pretty similar. In order to help some vulnerable person or group, the team had to fight against a powerful and cruel enemy, using very limited resources. Team leader Hannibal was usually the brains behind each mission. His well-known tag-line was, “I love it when a plan comes together!”whic...