BACKGROUND The optimal use of percutaneous mitral commissurotomy (PMC) in a wide range of patients requires accurate evaluation of late results and identification of their predictors. METHODS AND RESULTS Late results of PMC were assessed in 1024 patients whose mean age was 49+/-14 years. Echocardiography showed that 141 patients (14%) had pliable valves and mild subvalvular disease, 569 (55%)...

AIMS Whether a percutaneous mitral commissurotomy (PMC) should be attempted in patients with mitral stenosis (MS) and valvular calcification, especially located at the commissural level remained debated. We sought to evaluate the impact of the degree and location of mitral valve calcifications on PMC results. METHODS AND RESULTS Over a 3-year period, we enrolled 464 consecutive patients who u...

This study examines the relationship between corporate greenwashing and product market competition (PMC). Using an unbalanced panel of 324 US firms over 2005–2015 period, we find that negative impact PMC on is conditional level environmental costs. Our results suggest effective disciplinary mechanism for achieving economic efficiency – in case featuring a high costs– through increase disclosure...

Monte Carlo methods are widely used for approximating complicated, multidimensional integrals Bayesian inference. Population (PMC) is an important class of methods, which adapts a population proposals to generate weighted samples that approximate the target distribution. When distribution expensive evaluate, PMC may encounter computational limitations since it requires many evaluations To addre...

Bakteri yang menempel dan menumpuk di sikat gigi dapat mengakibatkan timbulnya infeksi atau penyakit dalam rongga mulut. Oleh karena itu, material antibakteri mulai banyak diteliti untuk menghambat pertumbuhan bakteri, bahkan membunuh bakteri. Pada penelitian ini dilakukan studi awal mengenai polymer matrix composite (PMC) dengan matriks epoksi didoping nanopartikel ZnO sebagai pada gigi. Matri...

The aim of this study was twofold: first, to investigate whether perceived motor competence (PMC) mediates the relation between actual (AMC) and physical activity (PA) according conceptual model development, second examine role different motivational regulations (i.e., intrinsic, identified, introjected, external regulation) in relationship PMC PA. A sample 504 Spanish students (46.2% girls, 8–...

This study aimed (1) to identify profiles in children based on actual motor competence (AMC), perceived (PMC), and organized sports participation (OSP), (2) examine differences among these weight status as well autonomous motivation towards sports. Children’s (N = 206; 112 boys; Mage 10.83 ± 0.92 years) AMC, PMC, OSP, status, were measured using validated assessment tools. Cluster analyses iden...

ABSTRACT The direct carbonate procedure for accelerator mass spectrometry radiocarbon (AMS 14 C) dating of submilligram samples biogenic without graphitization is becoming widely used in a variety studies. We compare the results 153 paired and standard graphite C determinations on single specimens an assortment carbonates. A reduced major axis regression shows strong relationship between percen...

A novel antienterococcal peptide was prepared by fusing the enterococcal cCF10 pheromone to the channel-forming domain of colicin Ia, forming Enterococcus faecalis pheromonicin (PMC-EF). This peptide was bactericidal against vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecalis (VRE) organisms. Electron microscopy and vital dyes confirmed increased membrane permeability. All mice made bacteremic with VRE ...

This second part is devoted to the investigation of global properties of Prescribed Mean Curvature (PMC) foliations in cosmological spacetimes with local U(1)× U(1) symmetry and matter described by the Vlasov equation. It turns out, that these spacetimes admit a global foliation by PMC surfaces, as well, but the techniques to achieve this goal are more complex than in the cases considered in pa...