A large proportion of movement in urban area is constrained to a road network such as pedestrian, bicycle and vehicle. That movement information is commonly collected by Global Positioning System (GPS) sensor, which has generated large collections of trajectories. A contiguous sequential pattern (CSP) in these trajectories represents a certain number of objects traversing a sequence of spatiall...

BACKGROUND The effect of adenosine and exercise on gated SPET left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF), end diastolic volume (EDV) and end systolic volume (ESV) has not been fully investigated. The aim of the study was to compare functional measurements obtained in one-day adenosine rest and two-day stress-rest protocols in relation to ischaemia. MATERIAL AND METHODS Out of 226 consecutive p...

It has been reported that the positive detection rate of Fluorine-18-fluorodeoxyglucose (18F-FDG) metabolism in positron emission tomography (PET) imaging, for the diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is only about 50%. In particular, 18F-FDG PET imaging is prone to false negative findings in HCC. Transforming growth factor-beta1 (TGF-β1) shows over expression rates in early HCC liver ti...

episode, she experienced hemidystonia o of the face and extremities, accompan motor seizures with secondary genera seizures were uncontrolled with oral anti-ep treatment for the last month and she was a hospital. On physical examination, mild faci atrophy of the left side of the body and were noticed. Laboratory data were unremark To the Editor: Dyke-Davidoff-Masson syndrom was first described ...

Objective: Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder (ND) due to progressive loss of dopaminergic neurons in the basal ganglia. The correct di erential diagnosis of this disease with parkinsonian syndromes (PS) or with essential tremor (ET) is a diagnostic dilemma, considering that only PD is responsive to treatment with levodopa. Traditional imaging fails to diagnose PD because ...

There is a paucity of regional cerebral blood flow studies on Japanese encephalitis (JE) with none of these studies describing brain perfusion abnormalities in all three stages of the disease. In this communication we report the changes noted in brain perfusion as detected by single photon emission tomography (SPET), in the acute, subacute and chronic stages of JE. Between December 2000 and Mar...