We describe the case of a 27-year-old Caucasian woman with corrected transposition of the great vessels, who presented with cardiac failure. She had severe regurgitation of the systemic tricuspid valve with a huge annulus that was not suitable for annuloplasty. She underwent a successful repair using the Alfieri edge-to-edge technique and was asymptomatic 15 months after surgery. Such a repair ...

In practical applications of graph transformation techniques to model transformations one often has the need for copying, deleting, or moving entire subgraphs that match a certain graph pattern. While this can be done using elementary node and edge operations, the transformation is rather cumbersome to write. To simplify the transformation, we have recently developed a novel approach that allow...

This work provides a first assessment of the possible barrier effect of the Pyrenees on the atmospheric transport of airborne pollen from Europe to the North of the Iberian Peninsula. Aerobiological data recorded in three Spanish stations located at the eastern, central and western base of the Pyrenees in the period 2004-2014 have been used to identify the possible long range transport episodes...

The vast majority of cases of transposition of the great vessels can be diagnosed in the first few weeks of life with electrocardiogram, x-ray and fluoroscope. The clinical pattern and the diagnostic features are described in detail. The degree of cyanosis, the characteristic heart shape and progressive increase in size coupled with generous hilar shadows all suggest this diagnosis. A new sugge...

T HE evaluation of antihypertensive drugs has become a big business. Hundreds of people who work in some aspect of clinical investigation spend at least part of their time in this process. Their observations determine the expenditure, first by the drug companies and then by the public, of some millions of dollars a year. Even the law recognizes the fact that no accumulation of pharmacology, how...

Fascioloides magna from a Brahman heifer recently imported from the USA is recorded for the first time in South Africa. The pathological findings are briefly described. The possibility of this parasite becoming established in this country is also discussed.

Jökulhlaup (glacial outburst floods) are caused by subglacial geothermal activity melting overlying ice, or by draining of ice-dammed lakes. They pose a recurring hazard along Iceland’s south coast where volcano-glacial interactions create often unpredictable, high-magnitude floods. Gathering information about past floods is crucial for projecting findings to present day scenarios and developin...

In general, course timetabling refers to assignment processes that assign events (courses) to a given rooms and timeslots subject to a list of hard and soft constraints. It is a challenging task for the educational institutions. In this study we employed a great deluge algorithm with kempe chain neighbourhood structure as an improvement algorithm. The Round Robin (RR) algorithm is used to contr...

The Rochechourt impact structure in south-central France, with maximum diameter of 40–50 km, has previously been dated to within 1% uncertainty of the Triassic– Jurassic boundary, at which time ~30% of global genera became extinct. To evaluate the temporal relationship between the impact and the Triassic–Jurassic boundary at high precision, we have re-examined the structure’s age using multicol...

Current Security Considerations for Issues and Challenges of Trustworthy Semantic Web Akhilesh Dwivedi Department of CSE, Ambedkar Institute of Technology, GGS IP University, New Delhi, India Email: [email protected] Suresh Kumar Assistant Professor, Department of CSE, Ambedkar Institute of Technology, GGS IP University, New Delhi, India Email: [email protected] Abhishek Dwivedi Assista...