We use Taiwanese national health insurance research database (NHIRD) to investigate whether thrombolism (carotid artery disease (CAD) as a surrogate) or embolism (atrial fibrillation (AF) as a surrogate) plays roles in later retinal artery occlusion (RAO) development and examine their relative weights. The relative risks of RAO between AF and CAD patients and controls were compared by estimatin...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to investigate the mean platelet volume (MPV) of patients with retinal artery occlusion (RAO). METHODS Thirty-seven patients diagnosed with RAO and 32 control subjects were included in this retrospective study. Retinal artery occlusion was diagnosed on the basis of clinical examination and fundus fluorescein angiography. All participants underwent complete oc...

All the Dr D. L. N. Murti Rao Orators so far have been persons who knew Dr D.L.N. Murti Rao personally. Some like Professor N. N. Wig, Professor A. Venkoba Rao and Professor A. Verghcse had been his students. Others like Professor K. C. Dube and Col. Kirpal Singh knew him in course of their professional interactions. I am possibly the first Dr D. L. N. Murti Rao Orator who was not fortunate eno...

The Cramer-Rao Lower Bound is widely used in statistical signal processing as a benchmark to evaluate unbiased estimators. However, for some random variables, the probability density function has no closed analytical form. Therefore, it is very hard or impossible to evaluate the Cramer-Rao Lower Bound directly. In these cases the characteristic function may still have a closed and even simple f...

* Ueki, R; * Shigematsu, M; * Motooka, T; * Kitajima, M; * Ogawa, K; *Mawatari, M; * Hotokebuchi, T * Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Faculty of Saga University, Saga, Japan [email protected] Introduction Hip dysplasia has a relatively high prevalence in Japan. Rotational acetabular osteotomy (RAO) 4) is an interventional strategy that seeks to reduce the abnormal high stress concentra...

The columnwise Khatri-Rao product of two matrices is an important matrix type, reprising its role as a structured sensing matrix in many fundamental linear inverse problems. Robust signal recovery in such inverse problems is often contingent on proving the restricted isometry property (RIP) of a certain system matrix expressible as a Khatri-Rao product of two matrices. In this work, we analyze ...

BACKGROUND Incidence of radial artery occclusions (RAO) and ulnar artery occclusions (UAO) in coronary procedures, factors predisposing to forearm arteries occlusion, and the benefit of anticoaggulation vary significantly in existing literature. We sought to determine the incidence of RAO/UAO and the impact of anticoagulation intensity. METHODS AND RESULTS Meta-analysis of 112 studies assessi...

simultaneous estimation of the range and the angle of close emitters usually requires a multidimensional search. this paper proposes analgorithm to improve the position of an element for arrays designed on the basis of some certain or random rules. in the proposed method,one element moves along the same previous direction, maintaining its vertical distance from each source, to reach a constella...