OBJECTIVES We sought to utilize terminal stored intracardiac electrograms (EGMs) to study the electrophysiologic events that accompany mortality in patients with third-generation implantable cardioverter-defibrillators (ICDs). BACKGROUND Despite their ability to effectively terminate ventricular tachyarrhythmias, cardiac mortality in patients with ICDs remains high. The mechanisms and modes o...

BACKGROUND This research sought to explore whether children's visual and auditory exposure to Electronic Gambling Machines (EGMs) in community clubs contributed to shaping their attitudes towards these types of potentially harmful gambling products. This research also examined children's knowledge of EGM behaviours in adults within their social networks. METHODS Qualitative interviews were co...

Eudialyte-group minerals are important accessory of peralkaline rocks nepheline-syenite massifs and alkaline–ultramafic complexes. Here, we report the complex study a eudialyte-group mineral (EGM) from pegmatite alkaline-ultrabasic Odikhincha massif (Polar Siberia). The chemical composition studied EGM is intermediate between those taseqite eudialyte, with small admixtures other members eudialy...

CONCLUSION Most of the clinical cases experienced taste disturbance after stapes surgery, and in a few cases this disturbance persisted for a long time. The animal experiment suggested the role of geniculate ganglion (GG) cells in nerve generation. OBJECTIVES To clinically examine taste disorder and its recovery after stapes surgery and experimentally demonstrate a role of GG. PATIENTS AND ...

Current cardiac implantable devices offer improved processing power and recording capabilities. Some of these devices already provide basic telemonitoring features that may help to reduce health care expenditure. A challenge is posed in particular for the telemonitoring of the patient’s cardiac electrical activity. Indeed, only intracardiac electrograms (EGMs) are acquired by the implanted devi...

Two-phase olive mill waste (TPOMW) is presently the major waste produced by the olive mill industry. This waste has potential to be used as substrate for solid state fermentation (SSF) despite of its high concentration of phenolic compounds and low nitrogen content. In this work, it is demonstrated that mixtures of TPOMW with winery wastes support the production of lipase by Aspergillus spp. By...

The majority of academic literature, public opinion and popular press articles relating to gambling and in particular electronic gaming machines (EGMs) in Australia, adopts the view that it is a serious problem, both to susceptible individuals and to the wider community. The common stance is that EGM manufacturers, operators and Australian state governments could, at the very least, become much...

First-order primal-dual methods are appealing for their low memory overhead, fast iterations, and effective parallelization. However, they often slow at finding high accuracy solutions, which creates a barrier to use in traditional linear programming (LP) applications. This paper exploits the sharpness of formulations LP instances achieve convergence using restarts general setting that applies ...