OBJECTIVE To determine the association between plasma brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) level in patients with heart failure (HF) and physical frailty as well as with each domain of physical frailty. METHODS Two hundred and six outpatients of cardiovascular medicine aged 60 years and older who had been hospitalized for HF or had been given a prescription medication for HF were included. Physica...

Abstract Laboratory experiments with seismic measurements have the potential to be highly useful for understanding physical process of water-induced landslides, and fundamental are helpful appropriate interpretation recorded seismograms. We developed a laboratory measurement system investigate relationships between wave propagation water saturation in sand. considered that wavelength should com...

The distributed hash table, or DHT, is a distributed system that provides a traditional hash table’s simple put/get interface using a peer-to-peer overlay network. To echo the prevailing hype, DHTs deliver incremental scalability in the number of nodes, extremely high availability of data, low latency, and high throughput. Over the past 16 months, we have run a public DHT service called OpenDHT...

In the Kappa effect, two visual stimuli are given, and their spatial distance affects their perceived temporal interval. The classical model assumes constant speed while a competing Bayesian model assumes a slow speed prior. The two models are based on different assumptions about the statistical structure of the environment. Here we introduce a new visual experiment to distinguish between these...