Pyrogen reaction and conversion of sustained ventricular tachycardia to sinus rhythm: two case reports

INTRODUCTION: Pyrogen reaction is a side effect of intravenous infusion of solution on body; sustained ventricular tachycardia is a serious arrhythmia, no relationship between them has been reported before. CASE PRESENTATION: Two patients with sustained ventricular tachycardia refractory to lidocaine happened to have pyrogen reaction. The sustained ventricular tachycardia was converted to sinus rhythm after the pyrogen reaction. CONCLUSION: The conversion of sustained ventricular tachycardia might be related to pyrogen reaction. The effects of pyrogen reaction on sustained ventricular tachycardia need further research

Associated Production of Fermionic Dark Matter and Neutrino at the Future Lepton Colliders

In light of the fermionic dark matter absorption on electron target that can be observed by direct detection experiments, we study its complementary searches at the future $e^+ e^-$ colliders such as CEPC, FCC-ee, ILC, and CLIC. Two typical processes, the mono-photon and electron-positron pair production associated with missing energy, can serve the purpose. While the mono-photon search prevails at CEPC, FCC-ee, and ILC, the $e^+ e^-E_{T}^{\rm miss}$ channel has more significant contributions at CLIC with much higher collision energy $\sqrt s$. The beam polarizations can help further suppressing the SM backgrounds to enhance the signal significance while differential cross sections can distinguish the Lorentz structure of various effective operators. The combined sensitivity can reach well above 1 TeV at CEPC/FCC-ee and ILC while it further touches 30 TeV at CLIC. Comparing with the updated results from the dark matter direct detection experiments (XENON1T, PandaX-II, PandaX-4T, LZ, and XENONnT), astrophysical $X/\gamma$ observations, and cosmological constraints, the collider searches can not just provide better sensitivity for light dark matter mass but also scan much wider mass range.Comment: 34pages, 17 captioned figure

Iterative joint source and channel decoding using turbo codes for MPEG-4 video transmission

This thesis presents a novel iterative joint source and channel decoding scheme using turbo codes for MPEG-4 video transmission over noisy channels. The proposed scheme, on one hand, utilizes the channel soft outputs generated by a turbo decoder to assist syntax based error concealment in a source decoder. On the other hand, the residual redundancy extracted by the source decoder is fed back to the channel decoder through modifying the extrinsic information exchanged between the two constituent MAP decoders of the turbo decoder so as to improve the error performance of the turbo decoder. With video packet mixer, the proposed scheme can correct most of the turbo coding blocks with a large number of bit errors. Simulation results show significant improvement in terms of BER, PSNR and the reconstructed video quality