2006;47;146-154 J. Am. Coll. Cardiol. Jacobs, and Victor Mor-Avi Williams, Lynn Weinert, Gil Bolotin, Patrick D. Coon, Jai Raman, Lawrence D. Eran Toledo, Roberto M. Lang, Keith A. Collins, Georgeanne Lammertin, Ursula Three-Dimensional Echocardiography Imaging and Quantification of Myocardial Perfusion Using Real-Time This information is current as of February 6, 2008 http://content.onlinejacc...

The growth of cities represents huge problems for modern societies. The explanation of the phenomena involves the description of changes. The Danish Building & Dwelling database is a quasi spatio-temporal database containing spatial dimensions as well as a temporal one. Based on this database, a time-series animation of the urban growth in the Copenhagen Metropolitan area is produced. Furthermo...

Plant Domestication and Crop Evolution in the Near East: On Events and Processes Shahal Abbo a , Simcha Lev-Yadun b & Avi Gopher c a The Robert H. Smith Institute of Plant Science and Genetics in Agriculture, The Levi Eshkol School of Agriculture, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot, Israel b Department of Biology and Environment, Faculty of Natural Sciences, University of Haifa Oranim,...

This paper presents a new method for cloth simulation, which uses asynchronous variants of both time integration and collision handling. Implicit integration methods like backward Euler and BDF-2 are very popular in computer graphics, since they allow for fast and stable animations. However, when combined with large time steps, their inherent numerical dissipation results in over-damped simulat...

BACKGROUND Alcohol intake has been associated with the bitter taste receptor T2R38. TAS2R38 gene expresses two common haplotypes: PAV and AVI. It has been reported that AVI homozygotes consume more alcohol than heterozygotes and PAV homozygotes. The aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of the TAS2R38 haplotypes among Mexican-Mestizo population and to analyze its association with al...

The study of stochastic approximation algorithms (SAAs) with setvalued mean-fields has been popular during recent times due to their applications to many large scale model-free problems arising in stochastic optimization and control. The analysis of such algorithms requires the almost sure boundedness of the iterates, which can be hard to verify. In this paper we extend the ideas of Abounadi, B...

The G protein-coupled receptor(gpcr)Tas2r38 is a bitter taste receptor that can respond to bitter compounds such as phenylthiocarbamide(PTC) and 6-n-propylthiouracil(PROP).This receptor was chosen because of its haplotypes (based on three residue site polymorphism) htas2r38pav, htas2r38avi are known to have a dramatically different response to ligands ptc and prop. A docking study is performed ...

A novel delivery method is described that incorporates taste stimuli into edible strips for determining n-propylthiouracil (PROP) taster status. Edible strips that contained 400 or 600 nanomoles of PROP were prepared for psychophysical studies. Using these strips, we measured taste intensity, taste hedonics, and taste quality responses in a sample of healthy volunteers (n = 118). Participants w...