Background/Objectives: Obesity is increasingly common among patients with acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), potentially influencing both clinical evaluation and outcomes. Traditional echocardiographic metrics may be suboptimal...
Background/Objectives: The optimal timing for surgery in severe aortic regurgitation (AR) remains challenging. Current recommendations are based on symptoms, LV size and ejection fraction (LVEF), yet subclinical dysfunction may occur earlier. Myocard...
Background: Sex-related differences in left ventricular (LV) reverse remodeling following ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) remain underexplored. We aimed to investigate predictors of reverse remodeling and its association with clini...
Background/Objectives: Evidence on myocardial-work indices beyond 12 months after left bundle branch area pacing (LBBAP) remains limited. We compared global myocardial work efficiency (GWE) and the left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) after LBBA...
Water collection based on groundwater abstraction has a high energy consumption that depends primarily on the operation and performance of submersible well pumps. The fact of the matter is that these machines still work with a global energy efficienc...
Background: The influence of age and gender on strain-imaging-derived myocardial work (MW) was recently investigated in healthy subjects. No information is available on the impact of heart rate (HR) on MW. Methods: 177 healthy subjects (47% men, mean...
Background: Myocardial work is an innovative echocardiographic tool to assess left ventricular performance. Emerging data have shown the added value of this method for evaluating cardiac function compared to traditional echocardiographic parameters a...
Background: Isometric exercise effectively reduces blood pressure (BP) but its effects on myocardial work have been poorly studied. For the present study, we compared acute changes in myocardial work during two different isometric exercises, namely,...
Emerging contaminants (ECs) include a diverse group of compounds not commonly monitored in wastewaters, which have become a global concern due to their potential harmful effects on aquatic ecosystems and human health. In the present work, six ECs (ib...
Changes in cardiac mechanics after correction of severe Aortic Stenosis (AS) are under-investigated. Myocardial Work (MW) is emerging as a useful non-invasive correlate of invasively measured myocardial performance and oxygen consumption. The aim of...
One major difficulty of parameter extraction for an equivalent circuit lies in applying an optimization algorithm to efficiently approach the global minimum. Traditional genetic algorithm (GA) is able to find the global minimum but it has very low co...
The problem of finding the global minimum of a function is applicable to a multitude of real-world problems and, hence, a variety of computational techniques have been developed to efficiently locate it. Among these techniques, evolutionary technique...
Background/Objectives: Persistent cardiovascular issues are common in COVID-19 survivors, making the detection of subtle myocardial injuries critical. This study evaluates myocardial work (MW) indices in patients recently recovering from mild-to-mode...
(1) Background: Left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) is traditionally used to assess prognosis in acute ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) patients. However, LV myocardial work (MW), evaluated echocardiographically, offers additional pro...
Chronic total coronary occlusion (CTO) occurs within advanced coronary artery disease (CAD), but its association with left ventricular (LV) deformation and pressure–strain-loop-derived myocardial work beyond global LV ejection fraction (LVEF) i...
Background and Objectives: The assessment of cardiac function in patients with end-stage renal disease (ESRD) is vital due to their high cardiovascular risk. However, contemporary echocardiographic indices and their association with hemodialysis-to-h...
Background: Myocardial work (MW) is a new echocardiographic parameter used in the assessment of cardiac energy expenditure. The aim of the current study was to evaluate changes in left ventricular MW parameters in patients with severe aortic stenosis...
Background: Echocardiographic myocardial work is a new load-independent echocardiographic technique to quantify left ventricle (LV) systolic performance. Our aim was to establish normal values for echocardiographic myocardial work in a large populati...
Addressing the challenges of inefficient prolonged trajectory resolution and unreliable dynamic obstacle avoidance for intelligent vehicles in complex confined environments, this study proposes an innovative hybrid path planning method. Its core nove...
Central inverters are usually employed in large photovoltaic farms because they offer a good compromise between costs and efficiency. However, inverters based on a single power stage have poor efficiency in the low power range, when the irradiation c...
Wheat straws are a globally abundant agro-waste that may play a critical role in the global transition from single-use plastics to green materials as an inexpensive and renewable raw material. Vast amounts of wastewater are produced during the techno...
The Power-Split Continuously Variable Transmission is one of the most promising architectures for Hybrid Electric Vehicles. These systems have been introduced to improve vehicle global efficiency since they can maximize the efficiency in varying oper...
The emergence of global order in complex systems with locally interacting components is most striking at criticality, where small changes in control parameters result in a sudden global reorganization. We study the thermodynamic efficiency of interac...
The present paper provides a numerical study that leads to the proper selection of a working fluid for use in low-temperature organic Rankine cycle (ORC) applications. This selection is not only based on the provision of best efficiency but also to c...
Efficiently extracting and integrating multi-scale global and local information remains a main challenge in remote-sensing semantic-segmentation tasks. Current convolutional neural networks (CNNs) can only capture fine-grained details but cannot mode...
(1) Objective: To evaluate myocardial injury by observing the different parameters of global myocardial work (MW) by left ventricular pressure-strain loop (PSL) analysis in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD). (2) Methods: According to the lef...
Background/Objectives: Aortic stenosis (AS) leads to progressive left ventricular (LV) pressure overload, adverse myocardial remodeling, and eventual functional decline. While traditional parameters such as left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) m...
In recent years, economic uncertainty has been heightened, including as a result of the economic shocks generated by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Russia–Ukraine War, and the unstable international political situation. These had a global impact on...
Large-scale river modeling has transitioned toward vector-based routing, yet the global fidelity of standalone frameworks like mizuRoute remains poorly characterized due to fragmented observation networks and unquantified systematic biases. This stud...
The repeated updating of parametric designs is computationally challenging, especially for large-scale multi-physics models. This work is focused on proposing an efficient modal modification method for gradient-based topology optimization of thermoel...
Decentralized supervisory structure has drawn much attention in recent years to address the computational complexity in designing supervisory structures for large Petri net model. Many studies are reported in the paradigm of automata while few can be...
Increasing global demand for fresh water is driving the development and implementation of a wide variety of seawater desalination technologies driven by different combinations of heat, work, and chemical energy. This paper develops a consistent basis...
Exemplar-based image translation generates an output image by transferring appearance from a reference exemplar to a content image. Existing works only consider the local correspondences between two modalities, and ignore the global distributions in...
Logistics services aid import and export businesses located near ports in terms of ease and efficiency in the globalization era. Furthermore, economic growth and global import–export volumes immediately impact the port industry. This research a...
With the world becoming flat with fluid boundaries, engineers have to be global in their outlook and their pedigree. Due to the need for international acceptance of engineering qualification, the incorporation of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) has bec...
A rich line of works focus on designing elegant loss functions under the deep metric learning (DML) paradigm to learn a discriminative embedding space for remote sensing image retrieval (RSIR). Essentially, such embedding space could efficiently dist...
Brain-inspired bionic navigation is a groundbreaking technological approach that emulates the biological navigation systems found in mammalian brains. This innovative method leverages experiences within cognitive space to plan global paths to targets...
Revolutionizing logistics and supply chain management in smart manufacturing is one of the main goals of the Industry 4.0 movement. Emerging technologies such as autonomous vehicles, Cyber-Physical Systems and digital twins enable highly automated an...
Objective: To evaluate whether combining conventional echocardiography with non-invasive myocardial work (MW) parameters improves prediction of coronary artery stenosis in patients with preserved left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF). Methods: We...
The Polish as well as the global energy economy, including in particular heat generation, is to a great extent based on facilities for the combustion of liquid and gaseous fuels. Globally, a considerable part, and in Poland a vast majority of these f...
Precision matrices can efficiently exhibit the correlation between variables and they have received much attention in recent years. When one encounters large datasets stored in different locations and when data sharing is not allowed, the implementat...
The global impact of hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) is exponentially rising as it is an emission-free and reliable alternative to fossil fuel-based vehicles that cause enormous negative impacts on the socioeconomic and environmental sectors. Fuel ce...
Ethanol is an energy commodity and a biofuel that has contributed to mitigate the use of fossil fuels. Nonetheless, the environmental benefits derived from the use of ethanol can occur at the expense of the agricultural commodities prices, affecting...
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The main purpose of this work is to investigate the impacts of globalization (GL), renewable energy (RE), and value-added agriculture (AG) on ecological footprints (EF) and CO2 emissions. For quantitative analysis, this research paper includes yearly...
The second generation of Audio and Video coding Standard (AVS) is developed by the IEEE 1857 Working Group under project 1857.4 and was standardized in 2016 by the AVS Working Group of China as the new broadcasting standard AVS2. High Efficient Video...
Considering the worst-case scenario, the junction-tree algorithm remains the most general solution for exact MAP inference with polynomial run-time guarantees. Unfortunately, its main tractability assumption requires the treewidth of a corresponding...
This study aimed to evaluate the modification of non-invasive myocardial work (MW) indices related to aortic stenosis (AS) stages of cardiac damage and their prognostic value. The echocardiographic and outcome data of 170 patients, with asymptomatic...
Background: The acute hemodynamic response to isometric exercise in hypertensive patients’ ischemic heart disease (IHD) has been poorly investigated. The aim of this study was to assess acute changes in left ventricular myocardial work (MW) dur...
Work environments can interfere with the mental health of workers as generators or reducers of psychological distress. Work engagement is a concept related to quality of life and efficiency at work. The aim of this study was to find the relationship...
With the continuous increase in global greenhouse gas emissions, the impacts of climate change are becoming increasingly severe. In this context, geothermal energy has gained significant attention due to its numerous advantages. Alongside advancement...
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