Abstract Funding Acknowledgements Type of funding sources: Public Institution(s). Main source(s): The Norwegian Health Association Introduction Global longitudinal strain (GLS) can detect subclinical left ventricular (LV) dysfunction. GLS measurement is therefore recommended when chemotherapy-induced cardiotoxicity be suspected. A relative, percentage reduction in ?8% may indicate LV dysfunctio...

Background:In the recent decade, the reverse genetics method has been broadly used for rescue of negative-stranded RNA viruses from cDNA or viral minigenomes. This technique has been applied to study different steps in virus replication and virus-host interactions. Reverse genetics could also be implemented for design of new vaccines. The T7 RNA polymerase activity as well as virus (nucleocapsi...

Natural disasters, such as earthquakes, tsunamis, and hurricanes cause enormous harm during each year. To reduce casualties and economic losses in the response phase, rescue units must be allocated and scheduled efficiently, such that it is a key issues in emergency response. In this paper, a multi-objective mix integer nonlinear programming model (MOMINLP) is proposed to minimize sum of weight...

On 8th October 2005 an Earthquake measuring 7.6 on the Richter scale struck Azad Jammu and Kashmir and the Northern Areas of Pakistan. The psychosocial consequences were in no way less than the massive loss of lives and property and the physical injuries and maladies that followed the disaster. A large number of health carers from across the country and around the world converged to undertake t...

This paper presents the EU project SHARE which aims at developing a mobile service architecture to support largescale rescue operations with multimedia communication and information services. The task of planning and controlling large-scale rescue operations requires flexible and robust tools which help the rescue forces to do their search and rescue work with maximum efficiency. Resource plann...

Although numerous studies have reported the physiological strain associated with firefighting, cardiac responses during a large-scale fire operation have not been reported and cardiac responses have not been compared based on crew assignment. The aims of this study were (1) to characterize cardiac strain during simulated high-rise firefighting, and (2) to compare the cardiac strain associated w...

USARSim is a high fidelity robot simulation tool based on a commercial game engine. We illustrate the overall structure of the simulator and we argue about its use as a bridging tool between the RoboCupRescue Real Robot League and the RoboCupRescue Simulation League. In particular we show some results concerning the validation of the system. Algorithms useful for the search and rescue task have...

BACKGROUND Foot injury was common as a result of the Bangkok flood of 2011. In the future, this type of injury should be prevented to lessen the burden during a disaster. OBJECTIVES The study was performed to ascertain what type of footwear is appropriate for volunteer rescue workers during a flood. MATERIAL AND METHODS The study was carried out during the flood in November 2011 at Siriraj ...

Hajime Kawahara, Kohji Yoshikawa, Shin Sasaki, Yasushi Suto, Nobuyuki Kawai, Kazuhisa Mitsuda, Takaya Ohashi, and Noriko Y. Yamasaki 1Department of Physics, School of Science, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-0033 [email protected] 2Department of Physics, Tokyo Metropolitan University, 1-1 Minami-Osawa, Hachioji, Tokyo 192-0397 3Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Techn...