![]() When the patient, operator, technique, and stent type are the same, vessel caliber and stent length both appear to influence the restenosis rate. Multivessel stenting including treatment of lesions in small-caliber vessels can be performed with a good clinical and angiographic outcome. The overall restenosis rate was 24% in the small vessel (9 mm length stent, 17% 16 mm length stent, 30%) and 15% in the large vessel (9 mm length stent, 3% 16 mm length stent, 22%), respectively. The result, if severe enough, is to reduce perfusion of brain parenchyma resulting in ischemic symptoms, infarction, and its sequelae. ![]() Six-month angiography was performed in 87 patients (92% of those eligible). Increasingly it is also becoming apparent that small caliber vessels which are in contact with blood in CSF are also narrowed - down to 15 micrometers - far too small to be visible on angiography, let alone CTA/MRA. The mean reference diameter for the small vessel was 2.35 mm and the large vessel 3.22 mm. One patient suffered a Q-wave myocardial infarction, one a non-Q-wave infarction, eight underwent percutaneous reintervention, two coronary artery bypass graft surgery operations, and five stenting of other nonstudy lesions. Six months postprocedure, there were no deaths or late stent occlusions. Additional lesions were treated in 23% of patients. Of 94 patients enrolled, 76% were male, mean age was 62 years (range, 40-85), 41% were hypertensive, 18% had diabetes, 15% were current smokers, and 64% had hypercholesterolemia. This multicenter prospective quantitative angiographic study evaluated patients with de novo coronary disease undergoing intervention who had at least two lesions or = 3.0 mm diameter (9 or 16 mm nine-cell NIR stent). We determined the effects of these factors in patients with lesions treated in both small- and large-diameter coronary arteries. Restudy of arteriograms suggests that branch-angle may be determined by branch vessel destination.Retrospective analyses of patient cohorts undergoing stent deployment have shown that small vessel diameter and long lesion length are two angiographic predictors of increased restenosis. The results of these postmortem measurements on human coronary arteriogram suggest that coronary artery caliber may adjust to minimize energy loss at the branch-point but that branch-angle is determined by other factors. The included angle between branches varied from 32 degrees to 124 degrees without respect to relative or absolute vessel calibers. No relationship could be found between branch-angle and vessel caliber. Fifty-seven branch-angles were determined by graphic analysis of postmortem biplane coronary arteriograms. Area ratio varies with changes in the relative calibers of branch vessels. Mean area ratio, the sum of the cross-sectional area of the branches divided by the area of parent vessel, decreased with greater arteriographic disease. The exponent, on the average, is less with increasing grades of vascular disease for left main coronary artery branch-points. ![]() ![]() Measured diameters (D) of parent and branch vessels corresponded well to the theoretical formula: (DParent)3 = (DBranch1)3 + (DBranch2)3.,in angiographically normal coronary arteries. Left main coronary artery branch-points were studied in 68 hearts with various degrees of angiographically defined coronary artery disease. Size relationships between parent vessel and its branches were determined for 42 left main and 53 other epicardial coronary artery branch-points in hearts with angiographically normal arteries. The formulas were based on the concept that blood vessel size and arrangement provided for blood flow with minimum energy loss. Measurements were made of parent and branch vessel diameters and of the included angles of branch-points from postmortem human coronary arteriograms to determine the usefulness of theoretical equations predicting the relationships between parent and branch vessel caliber and between arterial caliber and branch-angle. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Geologically, a metamorphic stone forms deep in the earth, its essential nature altered by heat and pressure. Picasso jasper also called Picasso marble or simply Picasso stone is metamorphic limestone, Metamorphosis is one of the three ways stones are formed. A major clue to the meaning of this stone can be found from the process through which these patterns form. ![]() Picasso marble colors are brown, black, cream, and various shades of gray often form the patterns of abstract landscapes. Use the crystals pattern to remind you that with trust we always get to where we want to be. Again, let the eyes travel through the patterns and allow them to teach you that the path of transformation may at times seem like a winding road. In any meditation for easing the process of transformation, I recommend having this crystal as a visual focus, at least in the initial stages of the meditation. 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In the planner’s report, Doug Moore gave a “big picture” update on the Pedestrian Plan for Clemmons. “Once you get into the federal funding and state funding, there’s a lot of hoops to jump through and that project (Harper Road) for the sidewalk is about a year and a half for completion.”Īlso in the manager’s report, Gunnell said that the beautification project involving plantings at the Harper Road interchange at I-40 were anticipated to begin in the spring but “now we’re hoping they’re going to start in September or October.” “As everyone can see, the projects that we going to do ourselves, pay for ourselves - the West Forsyth sidewalk project - only takes three to four months,” Rogers said. Mayor Mike Rogers said that the big difference in the time involved in each project comes down to the funding source. “The first section from Fair Oaks to Morgan should go fairly quickly,” Gunnell said, “but the second section from Morgan to the Y will take a little bit longer.” The process then extends into 2024 with the additional steps, including the expectation of starting construction in April and ultimately completion of the project in November. ![]() Gunnell said that they hoped to have back construction plans approved along with right-of-way and easement acquisition, and utility relocation agreements in October. There is much more involved with the Harper Road sidewalk project with April slated as the month to begin design, followed by construction plans completed and submittal to NCDOT for approval in August. June is next for awarding the contract and the beginning of construction, which is expected to be finished in August. ![]() Gunnell said that construction drawings “are being finalized as we speak” for the West Forsyth sidewalk project with May targeted for those plans to be complete along with right-of-way and easement acquisition, and advertisement for bids. Manager Mike Gunnell provided a tentative timeline on a couple of sidewalk projects - West Forsyth High School and Harper Road. Sidewalks, pedestrian plans and net density dominated the conversation in Monday night’s Clemmons Village Council meeting. And so the public feedback at this point will be very important," Gillingham said.Council hears update on pedestrian plan, net density "Most Winnipeggers and certainly folks in the immediate area, have known … there's been plans to widen Kenaston for many, many years. That could require expropriating existing homes on that side. So I think it's important to point out that close to 70 per cent of the costs and work associated with the project are not about widening the road."Īccording to the report, the Manitoba Youth Centre at Tuxedo Avenue will remain, meaning any widening would need to happen on the east side of the road. "The condition of Kenaston Boulevard in that section is such that it needs to be redone," he said. About 40 per cent of the costs are needed for the bridge and road renewal, and 27 per cent is for separating combined sewers. Gillingham pointed out that in breakdown of expected costs in Friday's report, about one-third of the total (31 per cent) is expected to go toward widening the road. Opponents, including some members of council, have said the projects are too expensive and won't lead to the traffic improvements the city is seeking. The 2023 budget incudes $2.8 million for the business-case studies on Kenaston and Chief Peguis. The projects are expected to cost around $500 million each. "The road needs to be widened, because it's a bottleneck and it's an important trade route and so we need to make the investment," he told reporters on Friday.ĭuring the election campaign last year, he promised to complete a business-case study of the two projects, in order to seek federal and provincial funding. He has said it is necessary to support the Naawi-Oodena development at the former Kapyong Barracks site and to improve the flow of goods and people through the city. Mayor Scott Gillingham has made widening Kenaston, along with extending Chief Peguis Trail westward, a key part of his mandate. City unveils proposed functional design for new St.Gillingham offers plans for Chief Peguis Trail, Kenaston Boulevard as mayoral race heats up. ![]() ![]() ![]() This code will serve as the reader of the text file. 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The services that SpiderOak offers encompass cloud back up and file hosting. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() death) is same for everyone, from “A poor man of any sort, down to a king”. Thus the poem ends with the speaker admonishing his younger, pessimistic self to appreciate even having the free will to choose his own paths in life as the destination in the end (i.e. Merely to exist can seem a joy, to “see what day or night can be” and witness “the sun and the frost, the land and the sea” whether he is “poor man” or a “king”. He says that if he experiences any kind of consciousness after he is dead, his “wish maybe to be here or anywhere” no matter the situation. This mature voice criticizes the speaker’s pessimistic view of things when he was twenty. The final reality of death makes human life at “any age” and human experience of any kind seem valuable. The second voice- the voice of mature experience takes over and emphasizes on the inevitability of death and burial ( “A mouthful of earth to remedy all”). He continues to wonder what choice he would make when he’s sixty years old. The image of a “hazel lost a leaf of gold” symbolizes the passage of time, thereby enhancing ‘time’ as a prevalent theme throughout the poem. Yet, “another voice” reminds the speaker, and the voice of youth, that when he was young he was full of gloomy pessimism and despair and had then wished that he “had never been born”. No sooner does the speaker wonder which way he should go, when the “voice” of his youth reminds him that when he was young he wouldn’t the “doubted” his instinct but instead would have made a quick decision. This, of course, is symbolically one of the most important questions each person faces in his or her life. The narrator comes to the signpost with arrows giving directions to different destinations and asks himself where he wants to go. The narrator is walking along a deserted stretch of seacoast, observing the “rough, long grasses” that “keep white with frost” on the winter day. The poem opens by describing a wintry seascape, this helping to establish already the idea of the passage of time as we normally associate seascapes with spring or summer. This poem explores a number of related themes including those of life and death, youth and age, decision and indecision, the change in a person’s perspective over time, about the choices we make and, in the end, how one should appreciate life. A cold monochrome pervades the first few lines and the characteristic despair kicks in at the end of the first verse: “At twenty you wished you had never been born”. Frost hinted that this poem was a sly dig at Thomas, who was famously indecisive when it came to making choices.įrost’s poem was considered as a life affirming, positive poem. This poem brings to mind the more famous one by Robert Frost, “The road not taken” about journeys and choices. ![]() Few readers recognised that his poetry was as much about himself as it was about nature. For many years he was read, if he was read at all, for his finely detailed descriptions of the English countryside. It was not until he met the American poet, Robert Frost, that Thomas found the confidence to write. This unceasing work could not have helped the serious bouts of depression from which he frequently suffered. Financial pressures gave him little choice but to compile anthologies, prepare hundreds of book reviews and write over thirty books on literary and topographical subjects. ![]() ![]() One way for females to reproduce is to combine two eggs, joining together their chromosomes into a full set. On the other hand, maybe rare males are a side-effect of brine shrimp biology. In her study on New Zealand snails last year, Maurine Neiman of the University of Iowa and her colleagues found, surprisingly, that producing a few sons that can’t mate with any females of your species doesn’t put asexual animals at a major disadvantage. It’s also possible that some of the asexual brine shrimp have mutations that lead sometimes to males, and they pass their mutated genes down to their offspring. It’s possible, for example, that as eggs develop, a few accidentally lose a chromosome, altering their sex. But there are a few plausible possibilities. Maccari and her colleagues don’t think there’s a clear answer to why these rare males exist. Only a few other examples have turned up, such as certain populations of snails in New Zealand. If asexual animal species are rare, species with asexual females and rare males are even more rare. What’s more, their hybrid offspring were healthy and fertile, too. The males couldn’t mate with females of their own population, but they readily had sex with other species. The males were exceedingly rare–around one in thousand in many cases, and around one in a hundred in a few. And yet in most of the populations they studied, they discovered a few males. The females in these populations can reproduce on their own. They reared cysts from dozens of populations and closely examined the offspring over the course of two generations. In a paper appearing in the Journal of Evolutionary Biology, Marta Maccari of the University of Hull and her colleagues describe a massive survey of brine shrimp from across Europe and Asia. Cornell scientists have suggested that they have remained asexual because they’ve found a way to resist parasites that’s as good as sex– by drying up and blowing away from their pathogens.īut there are other puzzles to the evolution of sex. If the advantages of sex overwhelm its costs for 9,999 species out of every 10,000, then why is the opposite true in the remaining one? One lineage of microscopic animals called bdelloid rotifers has been asexual for 80 million years. To better understand the evolution of sex, a number of biologists are looking to the exceptions to the rule. Populations of sexual animals may be less prone to going extinct because they can adapt to more niches. Or perhaps the rarity of asexual animals is the result of evolution playing out not in short-term competitions, but over vast stretches of time. Perhaps that’s a cost too great to balance the advantage of giving up fathers. That’s a lot of extra DNA to build when a cell divides–which requires a lot of phosphorus and other ingredients. Very often, when an asexual lineage emerges, it gains an extra set of chromosomes. There may be different explanations for different cases. Defenses against ever-evolving parasites might be especially important. Maybe sex lets adaptations evolve faster, because mothers and fathers can combine genes into new combinations. Scientists have given this question a lot of thought, and they’ve come up with some possible answers that they’ve been testing in recent years. Sex must have a powerful advantage that overcomes its disadvantage–what the late biologist John Maynard Smith dubbed the two-fold cost of sex. Down with sex, in other words.īut this has only occurred in only about one in every ten thousand species of animals. ![]() Out in the wild, this proliferation should mean that the genes for male-free reproduction should quickly dominate populations. It won’t be long before the asexual population is far bigger than the sexual one. So only half of the sexual population can produce eggs, while every individual in the asexual one can. Sexual species typically produce a roughly even ratio of sons and daughters. ![]() Let’s say you’ve got a sexual pair of male and female shrimp in one tank, and two asexual females in the other. You can take that picture of sea monkeys and wipe Dad out.įrom an evolutionary perspective, this father-free way of life has a lot going for it. Their eggs can develop into healthy embryos–and, eventually, adults–without the need of sperm. And in a lot of populations, the females have no need for males. Sea monkeys don’t live in families, for one thing. The real life of sea monkeys (brine shrimp, or Artemia) is a pretty far cry from Ozzie and Harriet. The parallels between the sea monkeys and the human family (see inset) are uncanny and surely nothing more than a coincidence. I assume that the father’s well-placed tail blocks some other clues to his identity. Note the red bow and plump lips that indicate the female of the species, and the tall body and protective stance of the male. Here we see a happy, typical family of sea monkeys. ![]() |