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    Chickpea bibliography, 1930 to 1974

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    With an increased emphasis on research on the important grain legume crop of chickpea, there is a need for a comprehensive listing of chickpea literature. Bibliographies prepared by the ICAR (I960), Regional Pulse Improvement Project of USDA (1966-1970), and L.J.G. van der Maesen (1972) have been the basic resource works on chickpea; this effort was undertaken to update the available bibliographic works and to provide wider coverage of the world literature

    Stationary and Recurrent Properties of Atrial Fibrillation Conduction Patterns in Goat

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    Introduction. Electrical mapping of the atria is used to assess the substrate of atrial fibrillation (AF). Targeted ablation of the AF substrate assumes spatiotemporal stationarity. In this study we analyzed long AF recordings of AF using high-density contact mapping.Methods. In 12 goats with stable AF 10 successive 60s files were recorded, within a single AF episode. AF cycle length, fractionation index (FI), lateral dissociation, conduction velocity, breakthroughs and preferentiality of conduction (Prefi were assessed to construct AF-property maps. The Pearson correlation coefficient (PCC) between AF-property maps of consecutive recordings was calculated. Recurrence plots and recurrence quantification analysis were used to identify recurrent patterns.Results Spatiotemporal stationarity for the 6 properties were high, PCC ranged from 0.66 +/- 0.11 for Pref to 0.98 +/- 0.01 for FI. The PCC is not affected by the time delay between files. Yet, highly dynamic patterns were found. Recurrence plots revealed few (1.6 +/- 0.7) recurrent patterns in individual animals.Conclusions AF properties were stationary in stable AF. This cannot be attributed to stable recurrent conduction patterns. during This suggests that spatial properties of the atrium determine AF properties
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