Automatic Cleaning of Time Series Data in Rural Internet of Things Ecosystems That Use Nomadic Gateways.

A serious limitation to the deployment of IoT solutions in rural areas may be the lack of available telecommunications infrastructure enabling the continuous collection of measurement data. A nomadic computing system, using a UAV carrying an on-board gateway, can handle this; it leads, however, to a number of technical challenges. One is the intermittent collection of data from ground sensors governed by weather conditions for the UAV measurement missions.

Predictors of death and stroke after carotid angioplasty and stenting: a subgroup analysis of the Pro-CAS data.

Background And Purpose: Little is known about the significance of patient characteristics, clinical indications, and technical details on the risk of carotid angioplasty and stenting (CAS). The purpose of this study was to test these parameters as to their predictive value for the peri-interventional risk of CAS.

Methods: Pro-CAS is a prospective, multicenter registry of CAS.

Low-dose iloprost infusions compared to the standard dose in patients with peripheral arterial occlusive disease Fontaine stage IV. DAWID Study Group.

Background: Intravenous iloprost, titrated from 0.5 up to 2.0 ng/kg/min has been shown in patients with PAOD III/IV to significantly improve healing of trophic lesions, relief of rest pain, and reduce the rate of major amputation or death at 6 months as compared to placebo.

Photoelectric recording of mechanical responses of cardiac myocytes.

A method to monitor contraction of isolated myocytes by transmicroscopic photometry is illustrated. Two photodiodes are mounted inside an inverse microscope used for visual control of a cell. Illumination of one diode varies in proportion to changes in cell length.

[Coronary flow measurements with cine densitometry. II. Quantitative determinations of flow velocities and flow volumes through severe coronary stenoses during rest (author's transl)].

The normal flow values through healthy or moderately narrowed coronary arteries, which had been determined by a new method of cine radiography, together with a computer, were published in this Journal in 1976. In the present paper we report the results of further studies of flow velocity and flow volume through high-grade coronary artery stenosis of severity III and III--IV. Compared with the results obtained on normal and mildly stenosed arteries, measurements at rest through severely stenosed coronaries showed an almost constant flow.

[Coronary flow measurements, using cine densitometry. Results using a multiple detector method. I. Normal flow values in healthy and stenosed coronary arteries during rest (author's transl)].

Coronary blood flow was measured by a cine densitometric method using a newly developed system incorporating computer data analysis. The first results concerning front and wave velocity of a selectively injected contrast bolus are reported. Average absolute flow volumes in the right coronary artery are 114 ml.

[Testing a pure methylglucamin salt of joxitalamin acid for contrast and side effects in angiography (author's transl)].

The pure methylglucamin salt of 5 acetamido-N-(2-hydroxy-ethyl). 2,4,6-trijodisophthalamic acid has been tested on 163 arterio- and venograms. Density of contrast and side effects proved favorable.

[The accuracy of surface kymography following myocardial infarcts, with special reference of cardiac aneurysms (author's transl)].

Surface kymography in three planes were performed in 180 patients following myocardial infarcts, and these were compared with the results of coronary angiography and selective laevocardiography. Kymography performed for the diagnosis of cardiac aneurysms and myocardial scars is relatively accurate (53%), as shown by a comparison with the laevocardiograms. Of the aneurysms demonstrated by laevocardiography in the left ventricle (31), it was possible to show 22 (71%) kymographically.