BACKGROUND Endovascular treatment of internal carotid artery stenosis (ICAS) has gained popularity in recent years. Offering CAS, which is a controversial treatment in asymptomatic disease, may provoke patient distrust of the diagnosis and intervention benefit. The aim of this study was to prove that asymptomatic ICAS patients tend to show an emotional attitude to their illness, and therefore t...

This paper addresses the problem of routing many-to-many multicast connections with bandwidth reservation. We devise a routing algorithm which provides not only connectivity but also bandwidth among multicast members at a low cost. After briefly addressing the problem complexity (NP-Complete), we move on to design polynomial time algorithms, for scalability purposes, some of which with worst ca...

| We present a performance driven generator for integer adders which has the following interesting feature: The generator is parametrized in the operands' bitlength n, the delay of the addition tn and the fault model FM. FM may in particular be chosen as the classical stuck-at fault model, the cellular fault model or the robust path delay fault model. The output of the generator is a performanc...

OBJECTIVES To quantify the prevalence of chromosomal anomalies in fetuses with persistent left superior vena cava (PLSVC), assess the strength of the association between PLSVC and coarctation of the aorta and ascertain the diagnostic accuracy of antenatal ultrasound in correctly identifying isolated cases of PLSVC. METHODS MEDLINE, EMBASE, CINHAL and the Cochrane databases were searched from ...

We propose a new Single-Input Multiple-Output (SIMO)-modelbased ICA with information-geometric learning algorithm for highfidelity blind source separation. The SIMO-ICA consists of multiple ICAs and a fidelity controller, and each ICA runs in parallel under the fidelity control of the entire separation system. The SIMOICA can separate the mixed signals, not into monaural source signals but into...

This paper deals with a modeling environment for systematic chemical process design through a Computer-Aided Modeling System (CAMS), whose potential is highlighted through a case study. In particular, the capability of ICAS-MoT (an integrated modeling environment) to build, analyze, manipulate, solve and visualize mathematical models is shown. Our main interest is to use models for process desi...

1010-7940/$ see front matter q 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. doi:10.1016/j.ejcts.2004.05.006 Fig. 1. An oblique coronal multiplanar reformatted image (part A) shows the artery of Adamkiewicz (arrow) and the posterior branch (arrowhead) of the left 10th intercostal artery (ICA). An oblique sagittal partial maximum-intensity-projection image (part B) shows that the 10th ICA, the origin ...

Two main vascular routes supply the brain, internal carotid arteries (ICAs) and vertebral arteries. The external artery (ECA) mainly supplies skin, muscle, skull; thus, neurointerventionalists should be aware of ECA‐ICA, ECA‐vertebral artery, extracranial–intracranial anastomoses. These anastomoses are not newly formed but that remnants developmental processes. During development, ICA has with ...

Mobile communication has a great potential to the users due to fulfilling the dreams of real-time multimedia communication like voice, image, and text. The huge amount of data redundancy in still image should be compressed using exact image compression algorithm (ICA) before transmitting via wireless channel. Thus, an ICA should be adaptive, simple, and cost-effective and suitable for feasible ...