A method to compute three-dimension (3D) left ventricle (LV) motion and its color coded visualization scheme for the qualitative analysis in SPECT images is proposed. It is used to investigate some aspects of Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy (CRT). The method was applied to 3D gated-SPECT images sets from normal subjects and patients with severe Idiopathic Heart Failure, before and after CRT. ...

The University of Texas Transformation in Medical Education Portal (UT TIME Portal) is a game-based learning platform for select premed students, with a particular emphasis on communication and professionalism. In addition to quantitative data on system usage and user performance, the UT TIME Portal generates rich sets of qualitative data collected through discussion board posts and preand post...

background despite the paramount importance and direct relationship of spirituality and spiritual care with health and well-being, they are relatively neglected aspects of nursing care. objectives the aim of this study is to explore iranian nurses’ perceptions and experiences of the facilitators of spiritual care delivery. materials and methods for this qualitative content analysis study, a pur...

Science has always faced the problem of consciousness. Nevertheless, consciousness differs radically from the ordinary objects researched by science: not only because of the complexity of the neural infrastructures which are at its base or because of the subtle connections between these infrastructures and phenomena such as decision making, morals and artistic creativity, but above all because ...

culture as the philosophy of life refers to the values, norms and rules, and actual behaviorwhich is taken over by man from the past generations, and to leave it to next generation in a differentform, separates individuals belonging to the culture from individuals belonging to other cultures.each of these different attitudes describes the degree to which the culture values the past, the present...

Theories beyond the Standard Model often contain mass scales hierarchically different from electroweak scale and Planck scale. It has been shown that such hierarchical can be realized as typical energy of multiple 3-branes in a 5D warped spacetime. We present mechanism for stabilizing intervals between extra dimension, by introducing single scalar field with brane-localized potentials. discuss ...

ôbjectives: diagnosis of the psychiatric diseases is a bit challenging at the first interview due to this fact that qualitative criteria are not as accurate as quantitative ones. here, the objective is to classify schizophrenic patients from the healthy subject using a quantitative index elicited from their electroencephalogram (ëëg) signals. methods: ten right handed male patients with schizop...

According to modern physics, space-time originally was of dimension 11 or higher, but then additional dimensions became compactified, i.e., size in these directions remains small and thus, not observable. As a result, at present, we only observed 4 space-time. There are mechanisms that explain how compactification may have occurred, the remaining question is why it occurred. In this paper, prov...