Improving energy efficiency in the building sector is a subject of significant interest, considering the environmental impact of buildings. Energy efficiency involves many aspects, such as occupant comfort, system monitoring and maintenance, data treatment, instrumentation… Physical modeling and calibration, or artificial intelligence, are often employed to explore these different subjects and, thus, to limit energy consumption in buildings. Even though these techniques are well-suited, they have one thing in common, i.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: Our aim was to estimate the number of non-satisfied instutionalization requests for inpatients and to describe the strategies elaborated to compensate for the waiting time.
Methods: This prospective follow-up study concerning all requests for institution admission for inpatients aged 75 years or older hospitalized in acute care and rehabilitation wards. Descriptive data were gathered throughout the social support process conducted during the hospitalization.
Ventricular tachycardia by branch to branch reentry is a rare arrhythmia. It occurs in cardiomyopathies associated with conduction defects. During tachycardia a His potential precedes each QRS complex which usually has a left bundle branch block appearance.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNinety-one consecutive patients underwent radiofrequency ablation of chronic or paroxysmal atrial flutter. The average age of the patients was 66. There was a previous history of atrial fibrillation in 38% of cases and of cardiac surgery in 14.
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