Background: US is experiencing a surging trend of methamphetamine use among individuals
who use opioids. More research is needed to characterize this emerging “twin epidemic.” …

Since the dimensions of the ventricles are related to both myocardial tension and myocardial
oxygen consumption (MVO2), the effects of nitroglycerin on the left ventricular volumes and …

Two Edmonton children recently had a disease seemingly new to North America but a common
problem in young children in Japan in the last few years. Named" mucocutaneous lymph …

Three cases of intermittent obstruction of the mitral prosthesis (Cutter-Smeloff) due to ball
variance have been reported. The typical findings were marked variation in the arterial pulse …

The Finite Element Method (FEM) can be used to analyze very complex geometries, such
as the pelvis, and complicated constitutive behaviors, such as the heterogeneous, nonlinear, …

Lacrosse players are required to perform multiple sprints and changes of direction over the
course of a game. These skills are reliant on the ability to rapidly produce lower-body force to …

Assessment of students and the evaluation of their satisfaction has been an important element
in the improvement of teaching quality in all the Higher Education areas. Specifically the …

Binarization plays a key role in the automatic information retrieval from document images.
This process is usually performed in the first stages of document analysis systems, and serves …

We present a hybrid approach to improve the accuracy of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN)
without retraining the model. The proposed architecture replaces the softmax layer by a …

The use of deep learning makes it possible to achieve extraordinary results in all kinds of
tasks related to computer vision. However, this performance is strongly related to the …