Transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) is an alternative therapy to surgical aortic valve replacement (AVR) in inoperable patients with severe aortic stenosis (AS). Currently, new valve systems are being developed, and we experienced TAVI with the Boston Scientific Lotus Valve System (Marlborough, Massachusetts, USA) with two patients for the first cases in Asia-Pacific countries and Tu...

Within the Oltenia surface mining region of Romania, 14,890 ha have been disturbed and only 1,002 ha have been reclaimed. The majority of this disturbance has involved agricultural land (12,208 ha), of which only a small amount has been reclaimed (552 ha). Forest land disturbed by surface mining in this region amounted to 2,682 ha, of which only 450 ha have been reclaimed. Therefore, huge land ...

Activity-Centric Computing (ACC) systems seek to address the fragmentation of office work across tools and documents by allowing users to organize work around the computational construct of an Activity. Defining and structuring appropriate Activities within a system poses a challenge for users that must be overcome in order to benefit from ACC support. We know little about how knowledge workers...

We have investigated the experience of improvisers as they perform to better understand how narrative is constructed by group performance in improvisational theatre. Our study was conducted with improvisers who would perform improv “games” with each iteration video recorded. Each individual participant was shown the video in a retrospective protocol collection, before reviewing it again in a gr...

Whereaswater drops on both lotus leafs and rose petals have high contact angles, the drops can easily roll off lotus leafs but strongly adhere to rose petals. Here, we report a simple and cost-effective approach to fabricate highly stretchable large-area surfaces that give lotusleaf and rose-petal effects by harnessing origami patterns formed in graphene paper (GP) bonded on a pre-strained elas...

Rhizome is the storage organ of lotus derived from modified stems. The development of rhizome is a complex process and depends on the balanced expression of the genes that is controlled by environmental and endogenous factors. However, little is known about the mechanism that regulates rhizome girth enlargement. In this study, using RNA-seq, transcriptomic analyses were performed at three rhizo...