PURPOSE To compare the ability of qualitative fludeoxyglucose F 18 positron emission tomography (QPET), qualitative MR imaging (QMR), and quantitative MR imaging with hippocampal formation volumetric assessment (HV MR) to lateralize the seizure focus in patients with temporal lobe epilepsy. METHODS Sixteen consecutive patients undergoing presurgical examination for temporal lobe seizures had ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the optimal selection of proximal fusion level for degenerative scoliosis (DS) and investigate the long-term proximal-related complications. METHODS Profiles of 95 consecutive patients with DS who underwent posterior long instrumented fusion were analyzed retrospectively. Perioperative parameters were reviewed stratified into 3 groups according to the relationship betwe...

This paper considers broadband signal transmission via high-voltage/broadband over power lines (HV/BPL) channels associated with overhead power transmission. To determine the end-to-end channel characteristics of various overhead HV/BPL multiconductor transmission line (MTL) configurations, the chain scattering matrix or T -Matrix (TM) method is adopted. The overhead HV/BPL transmission channel...

The phylogeny of reptilian herpesviruses (HVs) relative to mammalian and avian HVs was investigated by using available gene sequences and by alignment of encoded amino acid sequences and derivation of trees by maximum-likelihood and Bayesian methods. Phylogenetic loci were obtained for green turtle HV (GTHV) primarily on the basis of DNA polymerase (POL) and DNA binding protein sequences, and f...

Consider a linear multiplicity free action by a compact Lie group K on a finite dimensional hermitian vector space V . Letting K act on the associated Heisenberg group HV = V × R yields a Gelfand pair. In previous work we have applied the Orbit Method to produce an injective mapping Ψ from the space ∆(K,HV ) of bounded K-spherical functions on HV to the space h ∗ V /K of K-orbits in the dual of...

1. Twelve young men were given for periods of 20 d, each of three mixed diets, namely a low-protein (LP) diet (9% total energy as protein, 67% of animal origin), a high-animal-protein (HA) diet (16% total energy as protein, 67% of animal origin) and a high-vegetable-protein (HV) diet (16% total energy as protein, 67% of vegetable origin). Retention of calcium, magnesium, iron, zinc and copper a...

OBJECTIVE To test, with a sample of adolescent mothers (16-20 at childbirth) and their first-born infants/toddlers (average age 1 year), whether the impact of a home visiting (HV) child maltreatment prevention program was moderated by maternal depression. METHODS The study design was a randomized controlled trial of Healthy Families Massachusetts, a statewide child maltreatment prevention pro...

Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) show impaired hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction that might contribute to abnormal gas exchange and could be related to endothelial dysfunction in pulmonary arteries. The aim of the study was to investigate the response of PA to hypoxic stimulus in vitro in COPD, and the role of endothelium-derived nitric oxide (NO) in this response. Th...

X-linked congenital nephrogenic diabetes insipidus (cNDI) results from inactivating mutations of the human arginine vasopressin (AVP) V2 receptor (hV(2)R). Most of these mutations lead to intracellular retention of the hV(2)R, preventing its interaction with AVP and thereby limiting water reabsorption and concentration of urine. Because the majority of cNDI-hV(2)Rs exhibit protein misfolding, m...

This study aims to assess the repeatability and reproducibility of strain elastography in the evaluation of splenic nodules and to verify if it can differentiate benign from malignant splenic lesions in dogs. Twenty-four dogs with a single splenic hypoechoic lesion, underwent strain elastosonography. The strain ratio (SR) and hardness value (HV) were calculated. Repeatability and reproducibilit...