OBJECTIVES Management of complete atrioventricular (AV) septal defect (CAVSD) with a large ventricular component (>1 cm) remains controversial. The purpose of this study was to assess the feasibility of the one-and-a-half patch technique in repairing this lesion. METHODS This was a retrospective review of patients undergoing surgical repair of CAVSD with a large ventricular component (>1 cm)....

Three hexagonal patch antennas are designed for circular polarization and experimentally validated. These antennas are labeled; simple hexagonal patch, hexagonal patch with slotted ground and hexagonal patch with parasitic element. The measured impedance bandwidths of the three antennas are 2% for the simple patch, 5.2% for the patch with slotted ground and 6.35% for the antenna with parasitic ...

This paper applies concepts of landscape ecology and patch dynamics to lotic systems. We present a framework for the investigation of pattern and process in lotic ecosystems that considers how specific patch characteristics determine biotic and abiotic processes over various scales. Patch characteristics include: size, size distribution within the landscape, juxtaposition, diversity, duration, ...

In this paper, we propose a full-reference (FR) image quality assessment (IQA) scheme, which evaluates image fidelity from two aspects: the inter-patch similarity and the intra-patch similarity. The scheme is performed in a patch-wise fashion so that a quality map can be obtained. On one hand, we investigate the disparity between one image patch and its adjacent ones. This disparity is visually...

Drug-Loaded Mucoadhesive Patch In article number 2100203, Sukho Park and co-workers demostrate a drug-loaded patch equipped in wireless capsule, which is delivered to the gastrointestinal tract rapidly accurately by an external magnetic field. The has excellent mucoadhesive properties even wet environment. Since nanoparticles doxorubicin are also loaded patch, it generates heat under alternatin...