Long-term cerebral thromboembolic complications of transapical endocardial resynchronization therapy

Purpose: Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) is an established therapeutic option in selected heart failure patients (pts). However, the transvenous left ventricular (LV) lead implantation remains ineffectual in a considerable number of pts. Transapical LV (TALV) lead implantation is an alternative minimally invasive, surgical, endocardial implantation technique. The aim of the present prospective study is to determine the long-term outcome, including the cerebral thromboembolic complications, of pts

Leveraging Options: ASR as a Water Supply Management Tool

2008 S.C. Water Resources Conference - Addressing Water Challenges Facing the State and Regio

Comparison of Uncertainty Quantification with Deep Learning in Time Series Regression

Increasingly high-stakes decisions are made using neural networks in order to makepredictions. Specifically, meteorologists and hedge funds apply these techniquesto time series data. When it comes to prediction, there are certain limitations formachine learning models (such as lack of expressiveness, vulnerability of domainshifts and overconfidence) which can be solved using uncertainty estimation. Thereis a set of expectations regarding how uncertainty should “behave". For instance, awider prediction horizon should lead to more uncertainty or the model’s confidenceshould be proportional to its accuracy. In this paper, different uncertainty estimationmethods are compared to forecast meteorological time series data and evaluate theseexpectations. The results show how each uncertainty estimation method performson the forecasting task, which partially evaluates the robustness of predicteduncertainty

The Coherent State Representation of Quantum Fluctuations in the Early Universe

Using the squeezed state formalism the coherent state representation of quantum fluctuations in an expanding universe is derived. It is shown that this provides a useful alternative to the Wigner function as a phase space representation of quantum fluctuations. The quantum to classical transition of fluctuations is naturally implemented by decohering the density matrix in this representation. The entropy of the decohered vacua is derived. It is shown that the decoherence process breaks the physical equivalence between vacua that differ by a coordinate dependent phase generated by a surface term in the Lagrangian. In particular, scale invariant power spectra are only obtained for a special choice of surface term.Comment: 25 pages in revtex 3. This version is completely revised with corrections and significant new calculation

Leveraging Options: ASR as a Water Supply Management Tool

2008 S.C. Water Resources Conference - Addressing Water Challenges Facing the State and Regio

Saltwater in Coastal Carolina Aquifers

2010 S.C. Water Resources Conference - Science and Policy Challenges for a Sustainable Futur

Effects of Nicotine on Fetal Development: Enhancing Education in Nursing Practice

Undergraduate Theoretical Proposa

Strategies for Managing Water Resources in Saltwater Intrusion Environments

2008 S.C. Water Resources Conference - Addressing Water Challenges Facing the State and Regio

Strategies for Managing Water Resources in Saltwater Intrusion Environments

2008 S.C. Water Resources Conference - Addressing Water Challenges Facing the State and Regio