(Press-News.org) Beijing, 19 May 2021: the journal Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications (CVIA) has just published a new issue, Volume 5 Issue 4.
This issue brings together important research from leading cardiologists in US and China in a combination of reviews, original research and case reports.
REVIEWS
Pei Huang, Yi Zhang, Yi Tang, Qinghua Fu, Zhaofen Zheng, Xiaoyan Yang and Yingli Yu
Progress in the Study of the Left Atrial Function Index in Cardiovascular Disease:
A Literature Review (https://tinyurl.com/3vruva37)
Nikhil H. Shah, Steven J. Ross, Steve A. Noutong Njapo, Justin Merritt, Andrew Kolarich, Michael Kaufmann, William M. Miles, David E. Winchester, Thomas A. Burkart and Matthew McKillop
Better Than You Think--Appropriate Use of Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators at a Single Academic Center: A Retrospective Review (https://tinyurl.com/eurk05)
RESEARCH PAPERS
Zesen Han, Lihong Lai, Zhaokun Pu and Lan Yang
A Nomogram to Predict Patients with Obstructive Coronary Artery Disease: Development and Validation (https://tinyurl.com/eurk01)
Wenxiu Liu, Yutong Guo, Yue Liu, Jiaxing Sun and Xinhua Yin
Calcium-Sensing Receptor of Immune Cells and Diseases (https://tinyurl.com/eurk009)
Zeyi Cheng, Miaomiao Qi, Chengyuan Zhang and Yanxia Mao
Myocardial Fibrosis in the Pathogenesis, Diagnosis, and Treatment of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (https://tinyurl.com/eurk008)
Diqing Wang, Zhengfei He, Sihua Chen and Jianlin Du
The Relationship between Abnormal Circadian Blood Pressure Rhythm and Risk of Readmission
in Patients with Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction (https://tinyurl.com/eurk014)
Yu-quan Zheng and Xiao-mei Li
Comparison of Diagnostic Effects of T2-Weighted Imaging, DWI, SWI, and DTI in Acute Cerebral Infarction (https://tinyurl.com/eurk012)
CASE REPORTS
Lei Zhang, Tiewei Lv, Xiaoyan Liu, Chuan Feng, Min Zheng, Jie Tian and Huichao Sun
A Case of Pediatric Heart Failure Caused by Anomalous Origin of the Left Coronary Artery from
the Pulmonary Artery: Case Report and Literature Review (https://tinyurl.com/euk585)
Yiqian Ding, Wei Li, Yanqiu Liu, Min Ye, Liangping Cheng, Donghong Liu, Hong Lin and Fengjuan Yao
Mediastinal Tuberculoma Mimicking Malignant Cardiac Tumor: A Case Report (https://tinyurl.com/eurk587)
Li Jingxiu, Zhang Fujun, Wei Xijin and Peng Ding
Using Three-Dimensional Lorenz Scatter Plots to Detect Patients with Atrioventricular Node Double Path Caused by Interpolated Ventricular Premature Systoles: A Case Study (https://tinyurl.com/006eka)
INFORMATION:
Social scientists have had a longstanding fixation on moral character, demographic information, and socioeconomic status when it comes to analyzing crime and arrest rates. The measures have become traditional markers used to quantify and predict criminalization, but they leave out a crucial indicator: what's going on in the changing world around their subjects.
An unprecedented longitudinal study, published today in the American Journal of Sociology, looks to make that story more complete and show that when it comes to arrests it can come down to when someone is rather than who someone is, a theory the researchers refer to as the birth lottery of history.
Harvard sociologist Robert J. Sampson and Ph.D. candidate Roland Neil followed arrests in the lives of more than ...
Paleontologists had to adjust to stay safe during the COVID-19 pandemic. Many had to postpone fossil excavations, temporarily close museums and teach the next generation of fossil hunters virtually instead of in person.
But at least parts of the show could go on during the pandemic -- with some significant changes.
"For paleontologists, going into the field to look for fossils is where data collection begins, but it does not end there," said Christian Sidor, a University of Washington professor of biology and curator of vertebrate paleontology ...
When one of the largest modern earthquakes struck Japan on March 11, 2011, the nuclear reactors at Fukushima-Daiichi automatically shut down, as designed. The emergency systems, which would have helped maintain the necessary cooling of the core, were destroyed by the subsequent tsunami. Because the reactor could no longer cool itself, the core overheated, resulting in a severe nuclear meltdown, the likes of which haven't been seen since the Chernobyl disaster in 1986.
Since then, reactors have improved exponentially in terms of safety, sustainability and efficiency. Unlike the light-water reactors at Fukushima, which had liquid coolant and uranium ...
"Abominable mystery" -- the early origin and evolution of angiosperms (flowering plants) was such described by Charles Robert Darwin. So far, we still have not completely solved the problem, and do not know how the earth evolved into such a colorful and blooming world.
Recently, a new angiosperm was reported based on numerous exceptionally well-preserved fossils from the Lower Cretaceous of Jiuquan Basin, West Gansu Province, Northwest China. The new discovery is the earliest and unique record of early angiosperms in Northwest China. The study has been accepted for publication in the journal National Science Review and is currently available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/nsr/nwab084.
The new angiosperm was named Gansufructus saligna, and all the fossil specimens ...
Atmospheric ozone, which can regulate the amount of incoming ultraviolet radiation on the Earth's surface, is important for the atmospheric environment and ecosystems. Tropospheric ozone, primarily originating from photochemical reactions, is the third most prominent greenhouse gas causing climate warming.
A research team led by Dr. Jinqiang Zhang from the Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences tried to analyze vertical ozone distributions and explore the influence of deep stratospheric intrusions and wildfires on ozone variation in the northern Tibetan Plateau (TP) during the Asian summer monsoon period.
Their findings were published in Atmospheric Research.
Ozone variation over the TP can influence weather and climate change. ...
Researchers from the University of Surrey have revealed a new method that enables common laboratory scanning electron microscopes to see graphene growing over a microchip surface in real time.
This discovery, published in ACS Applied Nano Materials, could create a path to control the growth of graphene in production factories and lead to the reliable production of graphene layers.
Dispensing with the use of expensive bespoke systems, the new technique not only produces graphene sheets reliably but also allows to use fast-acting catalysts that reduce growth times from several hours to only a few minutes.
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Sloughed off skin and bodily fluids are things most people would prefer to avoid.
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Any organism living in the ocean will inevitably leave behind traces containing their DNA - environmental DNA (eDNA) - detectable in water samples collected from the ocean
Only recently has molecular sequencing technology become ...
Researchers at the University of Zurich show how climate mitigation scenarios can be improved by taking into account that the financial system can play both an enabling or a hampering role on the path to a sustainable economic system.
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Researchers at Tohoku University and the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) have discovered a new spintronic phenomenon - a persistent rotation of chiral-spin structure.
Their discovery was published in the journal Nature Materials on May 13, 2021.
Tohoku University and JAEA researchers studied the response of chiral-spin structure of a non-collinear antiferromagnet Mn3Sn thin film to electron spin injection and found that the chiral-spin structure shows persistent rotation at zero magnetic field. Moreover, their frequency can be tuned by the applied current.
"The electrical control of magnetic ...
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In the study ...
