BACKGROUND The prosthesis used for aortic valve replacement in patients with small aortic root can be too small in relation to body size, thus showing high transvalvular gradients at rest and/or under stress conditions. This study was carried out to evaluate rest and Dobutamine stress echocardiography (DSE) hemodynamic response of 17-mm St. Jude Medical Regent (SJMR-17 mm) in relatively aged pa...

This paper descn'be the enhancements we have made at Berkeley i'o the *X environment. The goal of the enhancements is to shorten the edit-compile-debug cycle in preparing TiX documents. An important step in cutting down debugging time is the development of a DVI previewer on a workstation with a high resolution bit-mapped display. Yet another approach we took is the integration of TBC with a po...

Numerous studies have shown that biventricular pacing (BVP) improves symptoms and exercise capacity in patients with congestive cardiac failure (CCF) and left bundle branch block (LBBB). The mechanism of symptomatic improvement has been attributed to changes in ventricular synchrony. However, the degree of asynchrony is not a good predictor of response. 2 The aim of this study was to assess whe...

∗I generated this file on October 12, 2002, from a back-up dated May 2, 1991, since no original dvi file was available in the back-up. I had to change two occurrences of >From to From in the source files (apparently corruption caused by a mail program). Furthermore, I had to edit the tex files to force page breaks on pages 43, 99, 100, 111, 120, 130, 137 and 138 to be as in the printed version....

Small print This is just a first draft for the course. The content of the course will be what I say, not what these notes say. Experience shows that skeleton notes (at least when I write them) are very error prone so use these notes with care. I should very much appreciate being told of any corrections or possible improvements and might even part with a small reward to the first finder of parti...

This paper describes the development of a typesetting program for music in the lazy functional programming language Clean. The system transforms a description of the music to be typeset in a dvi-le just like T E X does with mathematical formulae. The implementation makes heavy use of higher order functions. It has been implemented in just a few weeks and is able to typeset quite impressive exam...

Image Processing algorithms implemented in hardware have emerged as the most viable solution for improving the performance of image processing systems. The introduction of reconfigurable devices and high level hardware programming languages has further accelerated the design of image processing in FPGA. This paper briefly presents the design of Sobel edge detector system on FPGA. The design is ...

Dengue viral infection (DVI) is amongst a big Global health challenges. The clinical manifestations of disease ranges from subclinical Dengue fever (DF) to the complicated dengue haemorrhagic fever (DHF) and dengue shock syndrome (DSS). Reason behind this is the absence of specific tetravalent vaccine and the anti virals. The mortality rate with the infection might exceed upto 5%. Therefore, th...