X-ray fluoroscopy is routinely used in patients to guide vascular and cardiac interventions, because of the ability to perform real-time imaging and easy access to patients during interventions (Athanasoulis, 2001; Lakhan et al., 2009; Sousa et al., 2005). X-ray fluoroscopy, however, is limited for defining soft tissue and obtaining functional information. The poor contrast between pathologic a...

Aim: To compare the efficacy and safety of direct trocar insertion and Veress needle to gain access in the abdominal cavity for laparoscopic cholecystectomy Study design: Randomized control study Place and duration of study: Surgical unit II, Akhtar Saeed Trust Teaching Hospital/ Farooq Hospital West Wood , Lahore, from August, 2012 to July, 2014. Methodology: All patients undergoing laparoscop...

Carlson, G. L., M. Saeed, R. A. Little, and M. H. Irving. Serum leptin concentrations and their relation to metabolic abnormalities in human sepsis. Am. J. Physiol. 276 (Endocrinol. Metab. 39): E658–E662, 1999.—Circulating leptin concentrations are raised in animal models of inflammation and sepsis. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of sepsis on serum leptin concentration in...

Ahmed Saeed Karim Habak Mahmoud Fouad Moustafa Youssef {ahmed.saeed, karim.habak, mahmoud.fouad, mayoussef}@nileu.edu.eg Wireless Intelligent Networks Center, Nile University, Smart Village, Egypt Many of today’s mobile devices are equipped with multiple network interfaces that can be used to connect to the Internet, including Ethernet, WiFi, 3G, and Bluetooth. However, current operating system...

Low-cost mini-drones with advanced sensing and maneuverability enable a new class of intelligent sensing systems. Œis trend motivated several research e‚orts to employ drones as standalone systems or to assist legacy deployments. However, several fundamental challenges remain unsolved including: 1) Adequate coverage of sizable targets; 2) Target orientation that render coverage e‚ective only fr...

In this paper we study a general class of online maximization problems which are as follows. We are given a time constraint T . We have to choose a sequence of actions from a set of possible actions and also the length of time to run each action subject to the total time being no more than T . Each action has a marginal profit. We show that if the problem has the following two properties, then ...

The HILT (HIgh-Level Thesaurus) project (http://hilt.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/), based primarily at the Centre for Digital Library Research (CDLR) (http://cdlr.strath.ac.uk/) at Strathclyde University in Glasgow is entering its fourth stage following the completion of Phases I (http://hilt.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/index1.html) and II (http://hilt.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/index2.html) and the Machine to Machine (M2M...

The Statistical Properties of (Asphalt) Mixtures December 2016 Saeed Maghsoodloo and Randy West National Center for Asphalt Technology (NCAT), Auburn University, AL 36849 Abstract In the design of asphalt paving mixtures, aggregates from n stockpiles (generally n = 2, 3, 4, ..., 10) are blended at selected proportions to satisfy specified gradation ranges and other criteria. The mean and varian...

Objective: To determine the diagnostic accuracy of multidetector computed tomography in detection esophageal varices patients with hrpatic cirrhosis. Study Design: Cross Sectional study. Setting: Department Diagnostic Radiology, Kot Khawaja Saeed Teaching Hospital, Lahore. Period: January, 2021 to July, 2021. Material & Methods: Two hundred seventy five diagnosed liver cirrhosis were includ...