BACKGROUND Large myocardial infarction (MI) is associated with adverse left ventricular (LV) remodeling (LVR). We studied the nature of LVR, with specific attention to non-transmural MIs, and the association of peak CK-MB with recovery and chronic phase scar size and LVR. METHODS Altogether 41 patients underwent prospectively repeated cardiovascular magnetic resonance at a median of 22 (inter...

BACKGROUND The evaluation of ventricular remodelling and functional recovery is essential in predicting the prognosis of patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI). OBJECTIVE To determine the plasma catestatin level in patients with AMI, and investigate the association between plasma catestatin and heart function, and with left ventricular remodelling (LVR). METHODS Fifty-eight consecu...

Oscillatory rheology, at both small and large (LAOS) amplitudes, was performed to measure the dynamic response of a soft solid, formed on dispersing colloids into thermotropic nematic liquid crystal volume fractions ϕ>18%. Due weak homeotropic anchoring nematogens colloid surfaces, Saturn-ring defect line, known as “disclination,” encircles each particle entangles with neighboring disclinations...

We investigate the electronic transport through a single-level quantum-dot which is capacitively coupled to a charge-qubit. By employing the method of nonequilibrium Green's functions, we calculate the electric current through quantum dot at finite bias voltages. The Green's functions and self-energies of the system are calculated perturbatively and self-consistently to the second order of inte...

<p>This paper puts forward a fixed-time cascade voltage control system for threephase source inverters (VSIs) with LC output filter.First, feedforward decoupling mechanism is used to elminate the dependency between d-q parts of system. Then, proportional-integral (PI) regulators are current in inner loop. The reference provided by novel VSI technique developed regulation and tracking. app...

This paper discusses the characteristics of powerfactor-correction (PFC) switching regulators of non-cascading structures in terms of efficiency, input current harmonic distortion, and load transient response. The discussion begins with simplified power flow diagrams of the non-cascading PFC switching regulators and describes their essential features for achieving power factor correction and ti...