A completely different treatment approach was chosen for 2 patients with unilateral diaphragmatic paralysis and complaints of dyspnea despite similar anatomic and physiologic abnormalities. These decisions were supported by results obtained by functional respiratory imaging (FRI). FRI generated functional information on lobar ventilation and local drug deposition. In the first patient, some lob...

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BACKGROUND Basic trainees in the US military have historically been vulnerable to respiratory infections. Adenovirus and influenza are the most common etiological agents responsible for febrile respiratory illness (FRI) among trainees and present with similar clinical signs and symptoms. Identifying demographic and clinical factors associated with the primary viral pathogens causing FRI epidemi...

The contribution of this paper is two-fold; first, we present a novel approach for sampling and reconstructing two dimensional signals with parametric structure or namely signals with Finite Rate of Innovation (FRI). The considered signals are bi-level polygons and set of 2-D Diracs and it will be shown that with the use of ACMP method, projection-slice theorem, Radon projections and exponentia...

Gaussian network model (GNM) is one of the most accurate and efficient methods for biomolecular flexibility analysis. However, the systematic generalization of the GNM has been elusive. We show that the GNM Kirchhoff matrix can be built from the ideal low-pass filter, which is a special case of a wide class of correlation functions underpinning the linear scaling flexibility-rigidity index (FRI...

In this paper, we study the evolution of a Finitary Random Interlacement (FRI) with respect to expected length each fiber. contrast previously proved phase transition between sufficiently large and small fiber length, for all d≥3, FRI is NOT stochastically monotone as increases. At same time, numerical evidence still strongly supports existence uniqueness critical which estimated theoretically ...

Gastrointestinal diseases Urticaria Summary References January 1997 Update to Helicobacter pylori Briefing Gastrointestinal diseases Ulcer treatment has been revolutionized by recently discovered knowledge about Helicobacter pylori, a bacterium commonly found in the human gastrointestinal tract. These bacteria were originally thought to be a species of Campylobacter, but a later, more thorough ...

The continuing saga of foodborne disease outbreaks as reported in scientific publications and the popular press has raised consumer anxiety about foodborne illness and revitalized interest in irradiation as a method for eliminating or reducing foodborne pathogens.In addition to the well-known problems of salmonellae on poultry products, E. coli O157:H7 in hamburger, and, most recently, Listeria...

One way of handling Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) is based on the concept, that the robot acts like an animal companion to human. According to this paradigm the Robot should not be molded to mimic the human being, and form human-to-human like communication, but to follow the existing biological examples and form inter-species interaction. The 20.000 year old human-dog relationship is a good exa...

Plants undergo two major post-embryonic developmental transitions--the juvenile-to-adult vegetative transition (vegetative phase change) and the adult-to-reproductive transition (flowering). In woody plants, these transitions can be separated by years, but in herbaceous species they are often very close together, making it difficult to differentiate the effects of vegetative phase change and fl...