Recently proposed thermal-shear and spin-Hall contributions to the particle polarization in heavy-ion collisions are discussed. Alternative definitions of contribution, i.e. those Becattini-Buzzegoli-Palermo on one hand Liu-Yin other, very similar midrapidity region while quite different at forward-backward rapidities, which measured fixed-target experiments. It is shown that contribution globa...

Using unique data from 609 parent–daughter (8–16 years of age) dyads, in an online experiment we studied two pivotal antecedents young viewers’ cognitive advertising literacy: influencer-generated sponsorship disclosure (written and/or spoken) and parental mediation style (active or restrictive). A between-subjects, single-factor design was applied with three experimental conditions: written di...

A new set of amino acid descriptors, SZOTT (Scores of Zero dimension, One dimension, Two dimension, Three dimension) was derived from principal component analysis on a matrix of 1369 descriptors including 0D, 1D, 2D and 3D information of 20 coded amino acids. SZOTT scales were then employed to represent structures of HLA-A*0201 restrictive CTL epitopes, and further, quantitative sequence-activi...

Endomyocardial fibrosis (EMF) is a common cause of restrictive cardiomyopathy in the tropics and has been underdiagnosed in the past. Sometimes it is difficult to differentiate EMF from other restrictive cardiomyopathies. Cur- rently, echocardiography is used for the initial investigations that might lead to a diagnosis of EMF. In this study, we evaluate the usefulness of cardiac magnetic reson...

PURPOSE To evaluate the feasibility and stability of ocular alignment of single-stage adjustable strabismus surgery (SSASS) in restrictive strabismus. METHODS This was an observational case series comprising 12 patients with restrictive strabismus (mean age, 54.8 years) who were treated with SSASS using intravenous midazolam, fentanyl, and topical anesthesia. All were studied in a retrospecti...

BACKGROUND Ischemic mitral regurgitation (MR) often persists after restrictive mitral valve annuloplasty, in which case it is associated with worse clinical outcomes. The goal of the present study was to determine whether persistence of MR and/or clinical outcome could be predicted from preoperative analysis of mitral valve configuration. METHODS AND RESULTS In 51 consecutive patients undergo...

Mathematical programs whose formulation is symmetric often take a long time to solve using Branch-and-Bound type algorithms, because of the several symmetric optima. One of the techniques used to decrease the adverse effects of symmetry is adjoining symmetry breaking constraints to the formulation before solving the problem. These constraints aim to make some of the symmetric optima infeasible ...

Cardiomyopathies are diseases that primarily affect the myocardium, leading to serious cardiac dysfunction and heart failure. Out of the three major categories of cardiomyopathies (hypertrophic, dilated and restrictive), restrictive cardiomyopathy (RCM) is less common and also the least studied. However, the prognosis for RCM is poor as some patients dying in their childhood. The molecular mech...

Mathematical programs whose formulation is symmetric often take a long time to solve using Branch-and-Bound type algorithms, because of the several symmetric optima. A simple technique used in these cases is to adjoin symmetry breaking constraints to the formulation before solving the problem. These constraints: (a) aim to guarantee that at least one optimum is feasible, whilst making some of t...