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Personalised cardiac models were built from the computed tomography imaging data for two patients with implanted cardiac resynchronisation therapy devices. The cardiac models comprised a biventricular model of myocardial electrophysiology coupled with a model of the torso to simulate the body surface potential map. The models were verified against electrocardiogams (ECG) recorded in the patients from 240 leads on the body surface under left ventricular pacing. The simulated ECG demonstrated a significant sensitivity to the myocardial anisotropy and location of the pacing electrode tip in the models. An apicobasal cellular heterogeneity was shown to be less significant for the ECG pattern at the paced-ventricle activation than that showed earlier by Keller and co-authors (2012) for the normal activation sequence. © 2017 IEEE Computer Society. All rights reserved. ; This study was supported by the RAS Presidium Programme I.33Π, and Government of the Russian Federation (agreement 02.A03.21.0006). We used the computational clusters of Ural Federal University and "URAN" of Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics (Ekaterinburg).

There are many approaches to assessing the level of adaptation of the population to modern challenges, but all of them are not perfect: they consider only certain aspects and factors of the problem. The aim of this article is to substantiate the tools for assessing the effectiveness of adaptation mechanisms of the border area of the public administration sector from the standpoint of a statistical approach. The authors attempt to determine the result of the adaptation of the population on the basis of criteria of the reproductive (adaptive) potential of the territory. They have developed criteria for evaluation from the position of: creating conditions for the accelerated adaptation of the population, the nature of the impact of the transformation process on the population, the effectiveness of adaptation mechanisms, people's response to modern challenges, stresses and risks. The study uses the theory and methodology of official statistics, including the following methods: comparison, index, balance, grouping, and multivariate analysis. The tools for assessing the effectiveness of the mechanisms of the adaptation of the population are substantiated, the main factors influencing the speed of people's habituation to changing living conditions are identified. The dynamics of the most important indicators characterizing the living conditions of the population and the reproductive potential of the territory according to 14 key quantitative and qualitative indicators for the period 2013–2020 is analyzed. During the period under review, the following should be attributed to positive results: the pandemic and sanctions do not have a significant impact on the lives of people and the activities of enterprises. The negative consequences include: a reduction in the birth rate and an increase in mortality; an increase in financial inequality; a decrease in the purchasing power of the population, etc. The authors onclude that the use of a statistical approach makes it possible to increase the reliability of information for an objective assessment of the degree of adaptation of the population of the border area to modern challenges based on the analysis of the level of the effectiveness of adaptation mechanisms and their impact on reproductive potential. Constant monitoring will show in the future the positive and negative factors affecting the living conditions of people and the speed of adaptation of the population of the country's regions.

THE PRESENT ESSAY HAS A DOUBLE OBJECTIVE. FIRST, AND MOST IMPORTANT, IT INTENDS TO ANSWER THE QUESTIONS THAT ARE IMPLICIT IN ITS TITLE, WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF THE POST-WORLD WAR II SITUATION AND CONFINED MAINLY TO NORTH AMERICA, WESTERN AND EASTERN EUROPE AND THE USSR. WHAT KIND OF RELATIONSHIP EXISTS, IF ANY AT ALL, BETWEEN THE POLITICAL FORCES IN THE "WEST" AND THE "EAST" THAT CAN BE CALLED, AND CALL THEMSELVES, LEFTIST? IS THIS RELATIONSHIP CHARACTERIZED BY A RECIPROCAL SOLIDARITY OR, ON THE CONTRARY, BY A LACK OF COMPREHENSION FOR EACH OTHER'S RESPECTIVE VALUES, INTERESTS, AND STRATEGIES? DOES IT HAVE A POLITICAL IMPORTANCE OF ANY KIND THAT A DIALOGUE SHOULD EXIST? THE REPLIES TO ALL THESE QUESTIONS SEEM TO BE SELF-EVIDENT. ONE OF THE AUTHORS PRIMARY GOALS THEN IS TO SHOW THAT THIS IS BY NO MEANS THE CASE. MOREOVER, IT IS THE AUTHORS' CONVICTION, A CONVICTION THAT SHAPES THE METHOD OF THE PRESENT STUDY, THAT THERE IS NO GENERAL ANSWER TO THESE QUESTIONS. BOTH THE WAY IN WHICH THEY ARE RAISED AND THE ANSWERS SUPPLIED VARY FROM PERIOD TO PERIOD IN A HECTIC POSTWAR HISTORY.

How people leave a devastated area after a disaster is critical to understanding their ability to cope with risks they face while evacuating. Knowledge of their needs for communications about these risks is particularly crucial in planning for emergency responses. A convenience sample of 1,444 persons who survived the World Trade Center (WTC) attacks on September 11, 2001 were surveyed to ascertain their initial and ultimate destinations once they had left the buildings, how they arrived there, the role of types of obstacles they encountered, and the need for information and the seeking of other people as potential factors in influencing the process of leaving immediately. This survey was part of a larger, original survey. Results showed differences in how people traveled by mode to initial and ultimate destinations, how immediately they left the area, and factors associated with when they left. How they traveled and when they left were associated with where people lived, their tendency in times of stress to seek out other people including who they knew in the immediate area (e.g., co‐workers or friends), the physical conditions surrounding them, and the importance to some of waiting for more information. Many people indicated they did not leave immediately because they had no information about where to go or what services would be available to them. Perceptions and communications about risks they were facing were reflected in the choices they considered in how and when to leave the area. These findings have numerous ramifications for understanding and guiding personal behavior in catastrophic situations.

AbstractEpithelioid hemangioendothelioma (EH) is a rare vascular malignant sarcoma. To date, there are only two published case reports of EH mimicking nerve sheath tumors of a peripheral nerve. A 41-year-old woman presented with a painful node on the inside of the upper arm and motor deficits of the ulnar nerve. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) follow-up and neurosonography revealed a slowly progressive, contrast-enhancing tumor in the area of the neurovascular bundle. A schwannoma of the ulnar nerve was suspected. At surgery, the tumor was adherent to the brachial artery, but not to nerves. Pathology revealed an EH. EH may mimic a nerve sheath tumor and should be taken into consideration, especially because of its potential for metastasis and fatal progression.

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Military historian Carl Benn explores the rich history of our nation with two absorbing stories of bravery in this special two-book bundle. Mohawks on the Nile: Natives Among the Canadian Voyageurs in Egypt, 1884-1885 Mohawks on the Nile explores the absorbing history of sixty Aboriginal men who left their occupations in the Ottawa River timber industry to participate in a military expedition on the Nile River in 1884-1885. Chosen becuase of their outstanding skills as boatmen and river pilots, they formed part of the Canadian Voyageur Contingent, which transported British troops on a fleet of whaleboats through the Nile's treacherous cataracts in the hard campaigning of the Sudan War. Historic Fort York, 1793-1993 Fearing an American invasion of Upper Canada, John Graves Simcoe had Fort York built in 1793 as an emergency defensive measure. That act became the first step in the founding of modern Toronto. In this book, Carl Benn explores the dramatic roles Fort York played in the frontier war of the 1790s, the birth of Toronto, the War of 1812, the Rebellion of 1837 and the defence of Canada during the American Civil War, and describes how Toronto's most important heritage site came to be preserved as a tangible link to Canada's turbulent military past