BACKGROUND Congenital complete atrioventricular block without any structural heart disease and anti-Ro/La negativity is very rare. Discordant complete atrioventricular block, which is more frequently defined in the literature as an autoimmune mechanism, is much more rare in monozygotic twins. CASE REPORT The 26-year-old healthy mother had given birth in her first spontaneous, uneventful pregn...

SUMMARY A clinical, electrocardiographic, phonocardiographic, and arteriographic study was made of 20 normal subjects, 20 patients with right bundle-branch block (RBBB) and 20 patients with left bundle-branch block (LBBB). Ventricular asynchronism was documented in nearly all cases of bundle-branch block by the behavior of the arterial pulse and the heart sounds. The first heart sound was of no...

In this paper‎, ‎first‎, ‎a numerical method is presented for solving a class of linear Fredholm integro-differential equation‎. ‎The operational matrix of derivative is obtained by introducing hybrid third kind Chebyshev polynomials and Block-pulse functions‎. ‎The application of the proposed operational matrix with tau method is then utilized to transform the integro-differential equations to...

Sensitivity is one of the simplest and block sensitivity one of the most useful invariants of a boolean function Nisan and Nisan and Szegedy have shown that block sensitivity is polynomially related to a number of measures of boolean function complexity The main open question is whether or not a polynomial relationship exists between sensitivity and block sensitivity We de ne the intermediate n...

Sensitivity is one of the simplest, and block sensitivity one of the most useful, invariants of a boolean function. Nisan [SIAM J. Comput. 20 (6) (1991) 999] and Nisan and Szegedy [Comput. Complexity 4 (4) (1994) 301] have shown that block sensitivity is polynomially related to a number of measures of boolean function complexity. Themain open question is whether or not a polynomial relationship...

The ability of an implanted ear to integrate multiple pulses, as measured by the slopes of detection threshold level (T level) versus pulse rate functions, may reflect cochlear health in the cochlea, as suggested by previous animal studies (Kang et al., 2010; Pfingst et al., 2011). In the current study, we examined the slopes of T level versus pulse rate functions in human subjects with cochlea...

We present a silicon model of an axon which shows promise as a building block for pulse-based neural computations involving correlations of pulses across both space and time. The circuit shares a number of features with its biological counterpart including an excitation threshold, a brief refractory period after pulse completion, pulse amplitude restoration, and pulse width restoration. We prov...