Rationale Psychosocial stressors are a well-documented risk factor for mental illness.
Neuroinflammation, in particular elevated microglial activity, has been proposed to mediate …

The 18-kDA translocator protein (TSPO) is consistently elevated in activated microglia of the
central nervous system (CNS) in response to a variety of insults as well as …

Monte Carlo simulation is an essential tool in emission tomography that can assist in the
design of new medical imaging devices, the optimization of acquisition protocols and the …

It is 40 years since Starr and Edwards' description of successful prosthetic valve
replacement in 1961. Some patients who underwent valve replacement with the original …

A new, revised edition of a yet unrivaled work on frequency domain analysis Long
recognized for his unique focus on frequency domain methods for the analysis of time series …

Background Calcific aortic stenosis has many characteristics in common with
atherosclerosis, including hypercholesterolemia. We hypothesized that intensive lipid …

The acute central nervous and cardiovascular effects of the local anesthetics ropivacaine
and bupivacaine were compared in 12 volunteers in a randomized double-blind manner …

Least squares is probably the best known method for fitting linear models and by far the
most widely used. Surprisingly, the discrete L 1 analogue, least absolute deviations (LAD) …

Objective: The purpose of this study was to determine whether microglial activity, measured
using translocator-protein positron emission tomography (PET) imaging, is increased in …

Existing procedures for obtaining linear prediction formulae for time series may be placed in
two categories. The first consists of methods which involve fitting parametric models of the …