In this paper, we describe an automatic storm tracking system to help with the forecasting of severe storms. The concepts fuzzy point, fuzzy vector, fuzzy length of a fuzzy vector, and fuzzy angle between two non-zero fuzzy vectors are rst examined. We use a region splitting algorithm with dynamic thresholding to determine storm masses in Doppler radar intensity images. We represent the center ...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to determine the precise incidence, therapeutic options and prognostic implications of electrical storm in patients with transvenous implantable cardioverter-defibrillator (ICD) systems. BACKGROUND Approximately 50% to 70% of patients treated with an ICD receive appropriate device-based therapy within the first 2 years. Most arrhythmic events require o...

This paper introduces a family of tetravalent graphs called rose window graphs, denoted by Rn(a, r), and investigates their symmetry properties. Four families of these graphs are shown to be edge-transitive and it is conjectured that every Rn(a, r) which is edge-transitive belongs to one of these families. Proofs and conjectures about the size of a dart-stabilizer and about regular maps contain...

It shows him in his Public Health Service uniform sometime after 1915, when he attained the rank of Assistant Surgeon General. Carter was a quarantine officer and a field epidemiologist, best known for his discovery in 1898 of the extrinsic incubation period of yellow fever. His discovery led directly to the historic finding by Reed, Carroll, Agra-monte, and Lazear in 1900 that mosquitoes are t...

Thyroid storm is the life-threatening end-organ manifestation of severe thyrotoxicosis. If left untreated, thyroid storm may cause acute heart failure, multiorgan dysfunction, and death. A high degree of suspicion is necessary to make the diagnosis and start antithyroid medications to decrease mortality. Thyroid storm is generally seen in patients with Graves' disease but should also be suspect...

A 67-year-old male patient was admitted with an abrupt sudden cardiac death. He represented with an extreme electrical storm of 30 times of ventricular fibrillation (VF) episodes on one day. External shocks were performed to terminate VF. Transient J-wave in the inferior-lateral leads and Brugada electrocardiography pattern on the right precordial leads appeared during the electrical storm. And...

On June 2, 2015, Irwin (Ernie) Rose died quietly in his sleep at age 88, after a long and fruitful lifetime of sleuthing for the secrets of life at the molecular level. Truly great scientists are much more than the sum of their publications and awards. This is especially true for Ernie who, when informed that he had been awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, wondered aloud whether he reall...

Hierarchical structure is ubiquitous in data across many domains. There are many hierarchical clustering methods, frequently used by domain experts, which strive to discover this structure. However, most of these methods limit discoverable hierarchies to those with binary branching structure. This limitation, while computationally convenient, is often undesirable. In this paper we explore a Bay...