Abstract Background There is an long-standing debate whether cardiac resynchronisation therapy-defibrillation (CRT-D) preferred over CRT-pacemaker (CRT-P). No randomised controlled trials have been designed to compare these treatments. However, several observational studies performed so far providing controversial results. Methods PubMed, CENTRAL and Embase until October 2021 were screened for ...

in this article, i tried to study the influence of sasanid simurgh on the islamic and western art. the immigration of this mystic (simurgh) started from the sasanid period and continued after the fall of sasanid by the arabic invasion. this deportation happened through the cultural and commercial exchanges, and the imperial presents sent to the other empires by sasanid kings. sasanid simurgh is...

A parametric shape grammar is given for the generation of Hepplewhite-style chair-back designs. Introduction "To unite elegance and utility, and blend the useful with the agreeable, has ever been considered a difficult, but an honorable task. How far we have succeeded in the following work it becomes us not to say, but rather to leave it, with all due deference, to the determination of the Publ...

I read with great interest the paper entitled “Glass Fiber Contamination of Cigarette Filters: An Additional Health Risk to the Smoker?” by Pauly et al. (1). Dr. Pauly and his colleagues have drawn conclusions that are simply not justified. Following is a brief analysis of the scientific evidence that makes Reynolds Tobacco confident that the use of continuous glass filaments in Eclipse does no...

The eighteenth-century “discovery” of the buried cities of Herculaneum and Pompeii revolutionized the way in which individuals thought about their relationship with the ancient world. The accounts of British visitors between 1738 and the end of the century reflect a new historical sensibility, one predicated upon the extraordinary proximity between present and past that these sites seemed to pr...