Overview 39 Gestational Weight Gain 39 Cardiovascular System 39 Heart 39 Cardiac Output 39 Arterial Blood Pressure and Systemic Vascular Resistance 41 Venous Pressure 41 Central Hemodynamic Assessment 41 Normal Changes That Mimic Heart Disease 42 Effect of Labor and the Immediate Puerperium 42 Cardiac Rhythm 43 Hematologic Changes 43 Plasma Volume and Red Cell Mass 43 Iron Metabolism 44 Platele...

A new object tracking mask-based novel-look-up-table (OTM-NLUT) method is proposed and implemented on graphics-processing-units (GPUs) for real-time generation of holographic videos of three-dimensional (3-D) scenes. Since the proposed method is designed to be matched with software and memory structures of the GPU, the number of compute-unified-device-architecture (CUDA) kernel function calls a...

High-quality, monodisperse PbS-Au(1), PbS-Au(4), and PbS-Au(n) nanostructures have been synthesized via a facile and convenient solution chemistry approach. HRTEM images of these nanostructures showed good selectivity of gold deposition on the semiconductor in several spatially correlated directions. The formation of these regular nanostructures can be explained by the difference in polarity of...

Crohn's disease (CD) is occasionally diagnosed in asymptomatic patients undergoing colonoscopy for other reasons, but their clinical outcomes and optimal management remain poorly defined. A retrospective cohort study of with incidental diagnosis CD. The primary outcome was defined as the occurrence a flare. Secondary included time to flare, initiation corticosteroids or immunomodulators/biologi...