BACKGROUND In unaided caudal epidural block (CEB), incorrect needle insertion has been reported to occur in 15% to 38% of attempts. OBJECTIVE To statistically analyze the anatomical variables affecting difficult CEB using ultrasonographic measurement. METHODS Preprocedural ultrasonography was performed and the following measurements were obtained in 146 patients: the distance from the skin ...

ABSTRACT A novel concept of the Cold-Electron Bolometer (CEB) with strong electrothermal feedback has been proposed. The concept is based on direct electron cooling of the absorber that serves as negative electrothermal feedback for incoming signal. This feedback is analogous to TES (transition-edge sensor) but additional dc heating is replaced by deep electron cooling to minimum temperature. I...

Lactobacillus rhamnosus KY-3 is a fermentative bacterium that is used for the industrial production of L-lactic acid. We have examined the effect of L. rhamnosus KY-3 and cellobiose as synbiotics on lipid metabolism in rats. Rats were fed on a 20% casein diet (C) supplemented with either 1.7% L. rhamnosus KY-3 (KY-3), 10% cellobiose (CEB), or 1.7% L. rhamnosus KY-3 and 10% cellobiose (KY-3+CEB)...

BACKGROUND The effect of genetic hypertension and of chronic therapy by calcium entry blocker (CEB, isradipine) on the function and structure of large arteries has been studied in adult spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR, n = 30) and in their normotensive control Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) rats (n = 30). METHODS AND RESULTS Fifteen-week-old rats were randomly allocated to treatment with isradipine ...

With the advent of the Internet of Things and smart city applications, massive cyber-physical interactions between the applications hosted in the cloud and a huge number of external physical sensors and devices is an inevitable situation. This raises two main challenges: cloud cost affordability as the smart city grows (referred to as economical cloud scalability) and the energy-efficient opera...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study us to stratify by gender a new cardiac electrical biomarker (CEB) diagnostic accuracy for detection of acute myocardial ischemic injury (AMII). METHODS This is a noninferiority retrospective, case-control, blinded study of 310 archived measured electrocardiograms (ECGs) acquired from 218 men and 92 women. The CEB is constructed from the derived ECG (dECG)...