Mailing Address: Marcelo luiz Campos Vieira • Rua Cardoso de Melo, 463/21 04548-002 – São Paulo, SP, Brazil E-mail: [email protected] Manuscript received October 11, 2005; revised manuscript received October 17, 2005; accepted October 17, 2005. We are describing the case of volunteer, 28 years old, male, submitted to transdimensional transthoracic echocardiographic investigation (3D echo). ...

EON is a software package that uses distributed computing, systematic coarse graining and bookkeeping of minima and first order saddle points too speed up adaptive kinetic Monte Carlo simulations. It can be used to optimize continuously differentiable functions of a large number of variables. The approach is based on finding minima of the cost function by traversing low-lying, first-order saddl...

The hormesis phenomena or J-shaped dose response have been accepted as a common phenomenon regardless of the involved biological model, endpoint measured and chemical class/physical stressor. This paper first introduced a mathematical dose response model based on systems biology approach. It links molecular-level cell cycle checkpoint control information to clonal growth cancer model to predict...

purpose: to report two cases of granulomatosis with polyangiitis (gpa) presented ocular manifestations. cases report: we report two cases of scleritis with red eye, one of them was a 30 years old female patient with saddle nose and positive c-anca and the other one was a 56 year-old female patient with lung cavitation and positive c-anca. both cases undergone corticosteroid and immunosuppressiv...

Long leaves in terrestrial plants and their submarine counterparts, algal blades, have a typical, saddle-like midsurface and rippled edges. To understand the origin of these morphologies, we dissect leaves and differentially stretch foam ribbons to show that these shapes arise from a simple cause, the elastic relaxation via bending that follows either differential growth (in leaves) or differen...

M asterful mitral valve (MV) repair demands thorough understanding of integrated mitral apparatus structure and mechanics. One consistently reported feature, the saddle shape of the mitral annulus, was recognized in the process of resolving the contradiction posed by an apparently high prevalence of MV prolapse (MVP) in otherwise healthy individuals: A normal saddle-like shape will show opposit...

There exist two different types of equilibrium points in 3-D autonomous systems, named as saddle foci of index 1 and index 2, which are crucial for chaos generation. Although saddle foci of index 2 have been usually applied for creating double-scroll or double-wing chaotic attractors, saddle foci of index 1 are further considered for chaos generation in this paper. A novel approach for construc...