Hurricane and tornado events cause significant damage to high-value timber in the United States each year. Forest managers landowners are keenly interested finding solutions salvage repurpose these downed timbers before they pest infestations fire outbreaks, completely losing their value or increasing processing costs. To better understand wood quality of timber, we used acoustic waves techniqu...

BACKGROUND Patients undergoing coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery frequently develop wall motion abnormalities diagnosed by intraoperative transesophageal echocardiography. However, the relation between deterioration in wall motion and postoperative morbidity or mortality is unclear. Therefore, the authors hypothesized that deterioration in intraoperative left ventricular regional wall...