BACKGROUND Cardiac device implantation can be complicated by inability to adequately place leads because of significant lead capture issues. This study sought to determine whether there are genetic bases that underlie poor lead capture. METHODS AND RESULTS Retrospective review of all patients with structurally normal hearts who underwent new device implantation at Texas Children's Hospital be...

solely due to preferential fluid flow to these areas. Although the circulation half-life of exosomes in blood of wild-type and CD169 mice was similar, exosomes displayed altered distribution in CD169 mice, with exosomes freely accessing the outer marginal zone rim of SIGN-R1 macrophages and F4/80 red pulp macrophages. In the lymph node, exosomes were not retained in the subcapsular sinus of CD1...

Paced QRS morphology should be assessed to differentiate between complete loss of His bundle capture and loss of distal His bundle capture alone. This might be enough in patients with proximal right bundle branch block; however, in patients with proximal left bundle branch block, QRS morphology might be similar with loss of His bundle capture and with proximal His bundle capture. Introduction T...

Although machine learning on hypergraphs has attracted considerable attention, most of the works have focused (semi-)supervised learning, which may cause heavy labeling costs and poor generalization. Recently, contrastive emerged as a successful unsupervised representation method. Despite prosperous development in other domains, remains little explored. In this paper, we propose TriCL (Tri-dire...

this syndrome is a shock-like hyper metabolic myopathy triggered in susceptible animals by stress. capture myopathy (c.m.) is a commonly occurring condition in mammals following trapping and transportation. in this case 12 to 24 hours after transportation of red deer (cevus elaphus) and wild goats (capra ibex) clinical signs such as: muscular tremor, ataxia, recumbency, hyperthermia, tachyca...

background: maternal mortality ratio (mmr) is one of the main indicators of the millennium development goals and its accurate estimation is very important for the countries concerned. the objective of this study is to evaluate the applicability of capture‑recapture (crc) as an analytical method to estimate mmr in countries. methods: we used the crc method to estimate mmr in iran for 2004 and 20...

Signed networks capture both positive and negative relationships in a social network. We assume that the network nodes are of two different types and, agreement with balance theory, link signs correlate node types. Given signed information on type some source nodes, we study problem judging target node. first formulate globally optimal Bayes solution to this problem. As is too complex be used b...

Metal organic frameworks (MOFs) are highly porous and crystalline coordination polymers that can be synthesized from a wide variety of metal-cluster nodes and a diverse selection of multitopic organic linkers. As a result, they are highly tailorable and different combinations of functionalities can be incorporated into the nodes and the linkers in an orthogonal manner. Not surprisingly, these m...

Motion capture systems play an important role in health-care, sport-training systems and cartoon animation. This paper develops a motion capture system with inertial motion trackers for three-dimensional animation production. The system mainly involves inertia sensing technology, Bluetooth, sensor network and software development of human body motion capture model. The sensor network is used to...