BACKGROUND Patients with transfusion-dependent beta-thalassemia major (TM) are at risk for myocardial iron overload and cardiac complications. Spatial repolarization heterogeneity is known to be elevated in patients with certain cardiac diseases, but little is known in TM patients. The purpose of this study was to evaluate spatial repolarization heterogeneity in patients with TM, and to investi...

spatial patterns are useful descriptors of the horizontal structure in a plant population and may change over time as the individual components of the population grow or die out. but, whether this is the case for desert woody annuals is largely unknown. in the present investigation, the variations in spatial patterns of tribulus terrestris during different pulse events in semi-arid area of the ...

In the present era, the importance and role of green space in the life and development of cities are to the extent that it is mentioned as one of the indicators of sustainable development. In sustainable urban development, proportional distribution of green space according to the balanced distribution of the population is one of the principles of establishing geographical justice. The purpose o...

BACKGROUND There has been growing interest among exposure assessors, epidemiologists, and policymakers in the concept of "hot spots", or more broadly, the "spatial extent" of impacts from traffic-related air pollutants. This review attempts to quantitatively synthesize findings about the spatial extent under various circumstances. METHODS We include both the peer-reviewed literature and gover...

The two-spotted spider mite, Tetranychus urticae Koch (Acari: Tetranychidae), is an economically important pest of ornamental plant in Iran. The population abundance and spatial distribution were studied on five Rosa cultivars including Maroussia, Wendela, Elderado, Wenedetta, and Hot Lady during two growing seasons of 2011 and 2012 in greenhouse. The k parameter, index of dispersion, Lloyd’s m...

The difference between the maximum and minimum QT interval measured from a 12-lead electrocardiogram was defined as an index of spatial inhomogeneous repolarization of the ventricular myocardium. The causal relationship between QT dispersion and incidence of ventricular arrhythmias has been pointed out in various heart diseases, but until now it was discussed mainly related to sinus rhythm. QT ...

Spatial dispersion effect of aligned carbon nanotubes (CNTs) in the terahertz (THz) region has significance for both theoretical and applied consideration due to the unique intrinsically anisotropic physical properties of CNTs. Herein, we report the angular dependent reflection of p-polarized THz wave from vertically aligned multi-walled CNT arrays in both experiment and theory. The spectra ind...

We report the selfand external-dressed AutlerTownes (A-T) splittings of the images of the generated four-wave mixing signal (FWM) and electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) of probe images in cascade three-level atomic system. Such spatial properties of probe and FWM signals are induced by the enhanced cross-Kerr nonlinearity. We demonstrate the controlled electromagnetically induced sp...

We present a rigorous, but mathematically relatively simple and elegant, theory of first-order spatio-temporal distortions, that is, couplings between spatial (or spatial-frequency) and temporal (or frequency) coordinates, of Gaussian pulses and beams. These distortions include pulse-front tilt, spatial dispersion, angular dispersion, and a less well-known distortion that has been called "time ...