This paper addresses serial verb constructions (SVCs) in English and Mandarin. Although Mandarin and English is different in the total number of SVC types, three so-called SVC types are found to be common across English and Mandarin: purposive SVCs (e.g. go eat); causative SVCs (e.g. I made him laugh); perceptive SVCs (e.g. I saw him laugh). This paper has demonstrated typical SVCs have unique ...

This paper proposes a new selective encryption scheme and a key management scheme for layered access control of H.264/SVC. This scheme encrypts three domains in hierarchical layers using different keys: intra prediction modes, motion vector difference values and sign bits of texture data. The proposed scheme offers low computational complexity, low bit-overhead, and format compliance by utilizi...

This work reports a rigorous and comprehensive three-dimensional electromagnetic computation to investigate and design photoluminescence enhancement from a single silicon-vacancy center (SVC) in a nanodiamond crystal embedded in various metallic nanoantennae, each having a different geometry. The study demonstrates how each antenna design enhances the photoluminescence of SVCs in diamond. In pa...

The SVC (Static Var Compensator) based on voltage source converter (VSC) is used for voltage regulation in transmission and distribution system. The SVC can rapidly supply dynamic VARs required during system faults for voltage support. The apparent impedance is influenced by the reactive power injected or absorbed by the SVC, which will result in the under reaching or over reaching of distance ...

Superior vena cava (SVC) syndrome caused by malignant tumors in the upper mediastinum is not uncommon. Radiation therapy or endovascular treatment with stenting is the first choice of treatment to relieve symptoms. However, surgical treatment may be considered when the less invasive treatment modalities failed. In this report, we present two cases of severe symptomatic SVC syndrome as a result ...

Superior vena cava (SVC) syndrome is a medical condition resulting from the obstruction of the blood flow through the large central veins. Recently, central venous catheters have been reported as the increasingly common cause of this syndrome. We describe a 56-year-old woman with previous history of metastatic colon cancer, who had recently undergone central venous catheter insertion for her se...

Figure 1: Computed tomography (CT) scan of the chest. Axial image (A) shows a 2 × 3 cm mass in the anterior mediastinum and a tumour thrombus occluding the SVC and the azygos vein (arrows). On CT scan, the mediastinal mass does not have any connection either with the LBV or with the SVC. This unusual intravascular growth is due to the spread of the tumour into the LBV and SVC through the thymic...

The interconnected systems is continually increasing in size and extending over whole geographical regions, it is becoming increasingly more difficult to maintain synchronism between various parts of the power system. This paper work presents an advanced adaptive Particle swarm optimization technique to optimize the SVC controller parameters for enhancement of the steady state stability & overc...

INTRODUCTION Atrial fibrillation is the most common sustained heart arrhythmia. Premature beats arising from foci other than pulmonary veins have been related to its pathogenesis. METHODS AND RESULTS A 64-year-old female underwent superior vena cava (SVC) isolation after triggers were identified originating from the SVC following pulmonary vein isolation; immediately after SVC isolation, she ...

Pleural effusion is often a manifestation of the superior vena cava (SVC) syndrome. However, pleural effusion has never been reported to be a cause of the SVC syndrome. We report the case of a 68 yr old male patient who presented with SVC syndrome and respiratory failure, both attributable to an encapsulated pleural effusion over the right upper mediastinum. Simple drainage was performed as a d...