by 2D-STE, and investigated the effect of cardiovascular risk factors on LA-LV-arterial coupling.1 In their multivariate linear regression analysis, peak early diastolic LV longitudinal strain rate (SR-LVe) and E/e’/S-LAs were independent predictors related to abdominal aortic stiffness in patients with cardiovascular risk factors. On the other hand, only age contributed to abdominal aortic sti...

Research on using phase change material (PCM) suspension to improve the heat transfer and energy storage capabilities of thermal systems is booming; however, there are limited studies application PCM in transient natural convection. In this paper, implicit finite difference method was used numerically investigate steady-state convection a square enclosure containing suspension. The following pa...

Abstract: Purpose: To fully participate in the future world, students of today should be mathematically skilled. Nowadays, mathematics backs directly and fundamentally ways business, health, finance, governance, technology. Thus, this study predicts performance Mathematics through attitude Mathematics, reflective thinking skills, problem-solving skills Science, Technology, Engineering (STE) stu...

Steven G. McNulty, Jennifer A. Moore USDA Forest Service, Southern Global Change Program 920 Main Campus Dr., Venture Ctr. II, Ste. 300, Raleigh, NC 27606 USA Louis Iverson, and Anantha Prasad USDA Forest Service Northeastern Forest Experiment Station 359 Main Road, Delaware, OH 43015 USA Robert Abt North Carolina State University 3126 Jordan Hall, Raleigh, NC 27695 USA Bryan Smith, Ge Sun, Mic...

This paper investigates the use of perceptually-motivated subband temporal envelope (STE) features and time-delay neural network (TDNN) denoising autoencoder (DAE) to improve deep neural network (DNN)-based automatic speech recognition (ASR). STEs are estimated by full-wave rectification and low-pass filtering of band-passed speech using a Gammatone filter-bank. TDNNs are used either as DAE or ...

Journal of Hypertension 2015, 33:727–735 Centre Hospitalier de l’Université de Montréal, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Québec, Simon Fraser University British Columbia, Bumbay, British Columbia, CHU Ste-Justine, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Médecine génétique, Université Laval, Ste-Foy, Québec, Centre of Genomics and Policy, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Human Genetics, McGill Uni...

A variety of noncardiac conditions mimic the electrocardiographic changes ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI). Therefore, a physician must maintain high index suspicion when evaluating ST-segment elevation (STE). We present case epigastric pain secondary to ileus and gastric dilatation masquerading as anterolateral STEMI on an electrocardiogram (ECG). The STE promptly resolved following ...

It is extremely critical for an emergency response to quickly and accurately use source term estimation (STE) in the event of hazardous gas leakage. To determine appropriate algorithm, four swarm intelligence optimization (SIO) algorithms including Gray Wolf optimizer (GWO), particle (PSO), genetic algorithm (GA) ant colony (ACO) are selected be applied STE. After calculation, all can obtain le...

The accelerated process of vasculopathy in heart transplant (HTx) recipients is a well-known factor of increased morbidity and mortality among this subset of patients. Heart transplant patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) usually do not present with typical symptoms. ST elevation (STE) is a very rare presentation of ACS in HTx recipients. We report a case of a female HTx patient, in whom...