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Left Ventricular Geometry, Tissue Composition, and Residual Stress in High Fat Diet Dahl-Salt Sensitive Rats
Hypertension drives myocardial remodeling, leading to changes in structure, composition and mechanical behavior, including residual stress, which are linked to heart disease progression in a gender-specific ma...
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Mechanical Stimuli for Left Ventricular Growth During Pressure Overload
The mechanical stimulus (i.e., stress or stretch) for growth occurring in the pressure-overloaded left ventricle (LV) is not exactly known.
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Fluid and kinetic aspects of magnetic reconnection and some related magnetospheric phenomena
Magnetic field reconnection plays a key role in determining the magnetic field topology and in the conversion of magnetic energy into kinetic energy in cosmic plasmas. Magnetic reconnection was proposed by sol...
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Interstellar turbulence spectrum from in situ observations of Voyager 1
Interstellar scintillation of radio waves from pulsars reveals that the interstellar turbulence spectrum of electron density approximates the Kolmogorov power law from wavenumber
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Brief Report: Self-Injurious Behaviors in Preschool Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder Compared to Other Developmental Delays and Disorders
We compared the prevalence of self-injurious behaviors (SIB) in preschoolers aged 30–68 months with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) (n = 691) versus other developmental delays and disorders (DD) (n = 977) accou...
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Open AccessSolar Open Flux Migration from Pole to Pole: Magnetic Field Reversal
Coronal holes are solar regions with low soft X-ray or low extreme ultraviolet intensities. The magnetic fields from coronal holes extend far away from the Sun, and thus they are identified as regions with ope...
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Factors Associated with Self-Injurious Behaviors in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder: Findings from Two Large National Samples
In this study, we explored potential associations among self-injurious behaviors (SIB) and a diverse group of protective and risk factors in children with autism spectrum disorder from two databases: Autism an...
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Open AccessModeling Pathologies of Diastolic and Systolic Heart Failure
Chronic heart failure is a medical condition that involves structural and functional changes of the heart and a progressive reduction in cardiac output. Heart failure is classified into two categories: diastol...
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A computational model that predicts reverse growth in response to mechanical unloading
Ventricular growth is widely considered to be an important feature in the adverse progression of heart diseases, whereas reverse ventricular growth (or reverse remodeling) is often considered to be a favorable...
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Compound Effect of Alfvén Waves and Ion-Cyclotron Waves on Heating/Acceleration of Minor Ions via the Pickup Process
A scenario is proposed to explain the preferential heating of minor ions and differential-streaming velocity between minor ions and protons observed in the solar corona and in the solar wind. It is demonstrate...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The 3D Flow Analysis in Ruptured Cerebral Aneurysm
Hemodynamics is important in the formation, growth and rupture of the cerebral aneurysm. The treatments in the patients with aneurysm are closely related to the hemodynamic behaviors. However, clinical image s...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The Biomechanical Analysis of the Coil Stent and Mesh Stent Expansion in the Angioplasty
Percutaneous Transluminal Angioplasty (PTA) with stent is employed to treat the cardiovascular diseases in clinical to dilate stenotic arteries. There have been two types of stents (helical coil shape and trad...
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Promoter polymorphisms modulating HSPA5 expression may increase susceptibility to Taiwanese Alzheimer’s disease
Endoplasmic reticulum (ER) chaperone heat shock 70 kDa protein 5 (HSPA5/GRP78) is known to be involved in the metabolism of amyloid precursor protein and neuronal death in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) could arise ...
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Cost-effective screening for urinary tract infections in urogynaecological patients
This study aims to test the cost-effectiveness of reagent-strip urine nitrite compared with microbiological laboratory testing for screening of urinary tract infections (UTI). The study is a retrospective revi...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
SPACECRAFT BASED STUDIES OF TRANSIENT LUMINOUS EVENTS
The Imager of Sprites and Upper Atmospheric Lightning (ISUAL) is a scienti fic payload on Taiwan’s FORMOSAT-2 (previously known as ROCSAT-2) that provides new observations of transient luminous events (TLEs) f...
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Use of three-dimensional ultrasound scan to assess the clinical importance of midurethral placement of the tension-free vaginal tape (TVT) for treatment of incontinence
The aim of the study is to illustrate that the midurethral positioning of the tension-free vaginal tape (TVT) may not be necessary to achieve continence. Our secondary aim is to highlight that a fair number of...
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Micro-machining of optical glasses — A review of diamond-cutting glasses
In order to diamond-turn optical glasses to a nanometric surface finish, it is critical to determine the transition point from brittle mode to ductile mode. This paper presents various experimental techniques ...
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Gigantic jets between a thundercloud and the ionosphere
Transient luminous events in the atmosphere, such as lighting-induced sprites1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 and upwardly discharging blue jets9,10,11,12,13,14, were discovered recently in the region between thunderclouds and th...
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A New Mechanism of Coronal Heating
The interaction between network magnetic fields and emerging intranetwork fields may lead to magnetic reconnection and microflares, which generate fast shocks with an Alfvén Mach number M A<2. Protons and less ab...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Communication and Management Issues in International Collaborative Design
In our earlier work (Lee et al., 1999), we differentiated between three groups of problems that might arise in international collaborative design projects: problems which would normally arise within the context o...
