Ticagrelor Associated Heart Block: The Need for Close and Continued Monitoring by Munish Sharma, Daniel A. N. Mascarenhas

“…We present a case of ticagrelor related second-degree type II heart block causing severe dizziness and diaphoresis that resolved after discontinuation of the medication.…”
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Using Enstrophy-Based Diagnostics in an Ensemble for Two Blocking Events by Andrew D. Jensen, Anthony R. Lupo

“…Recent research has used enstrophy-based diagnostics to identify the development and dissipation stages of blocking events. These previous studies made use of reanalysis data sets in the calculations of the enstrophy-based diagnostics, such as the NCEP-NCAR reanalysis (2.5° × 2.5°) of geopotential height and horizontal winds. …”
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Strength of Hollow Compressed Stabilized Earth-Block Masonry Prisms by Xinlei Yang, Hailiang Wang

“…This paper covers a detailed study of hollow compressed cement-stabilized earth-block masonry prisms to establish the strength properties of hollow compressed cement-stabilized earth-block masonry. …”
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Automatic method for searching integral distinguishers of ARX block ciphers by Ya HAN, Mingsheng WANG

“…Firstly,based on three subsets division property propagation technique,the propagation function of the K-set and L-set of ARX block ciphers was constructed respectively.All vectors in L-set affected the propagation of K-set when propagate through xored round key operation.With SAT/SMT solver,round reduced integral propagation functions of ARX block ciphers could be established.Finally,by exhausting all possible input integral characteristics with proper data complexity,round reduced integral distinguishers of ARX block ciphers could be found.The proposed method can be used for searching integral distinguishers of ARX block ciphers including SIMON-like family block ciphers,HIGHT,SPECK family block ciphers and LEA effectively.…”
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Reconstruction algorithm for block compressed sensing based on variation model by Jian CHEN, xiong SUKai, zhi YANGXiu, kui ZHENGMing, qun LINLi

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Block-based fair payment scheme under delegation computation by Ta LI, Youliang TIAN, Kang XIANG, Hongfeng GAO

“…In the traditional delegation computation,due to the self-interested behavior of both participants,there were some problems such as the denial of the principal and the dishonest calculation by the computing party.In the payment phase,a third party was required to ensure the fairness of the payment,which led to extra costs and risks of disclosure of participants' privacy.Game theory was used to analyze the Nash equilibrium solution between the two parties in the payment process,and a fair payment protocol based on time commitment of bitcoin was proposed.Firstly,the bitcoin time commitment technology was used to ensure the fairness of payment.Secondly,the decentralized feature of block chain was used to replace the third-party service to protect the privacy of all parties and realize the source of responsibility.Finally,the scheme was analyzed from the perspective of security and correctness,which proved that the participants choose behavioral strategies honestly in the payment process.The scheme proposed in this paper not only solved the problem of fair payment in traditional delegation computation,but also protected the privacy of participants.…”
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Conceptual Blocks and Metaphorical Concepts as Means of Verbalization of Category of Quantity by A. S. Nozdrina

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On the Convergence Analysis of the Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers with Three Blocks by Caihua Chen, Yuan Shen, Yanfei You

“…For those problems, Han and Yuan (2012) have shown that the sequence generated by the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) with three blocks converges globally to their KKT points under some technical conditions. …”
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Design and Construction of Anchorage Block for Xiyang Water Supply Conduit by 张守权

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Synergistic effect of blocking cancer cell invasionrevealed by computer simulations by Kazuhisa Ichikawa

“…Our simulation study suggests the importance of combined strategy in blocking cancer invasion and metastasis.…”
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Anatomical, Physiological, and Technical Considerations of the Trapezius–rhomboid Plane Block by Leonardo Arce Gálvez, Jesús Daes Mora, David Hernández Abuchaibe, José Luis Cuervo Pulgarín, Christian Vladimir Guauque Marcelo, Rafael Enrico Valencia Gómez

“…Materials and Methods: A trapezius–rhomboid plane block (TRB) was performed in six patients diagnosed with dorsal MPS. …”
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Burning Mouth Syndrome Treated with Mandibular and Maxillary Nerve Blocks by Jamal Hasoon, Christopher Robinson, Ivan Urits, Omar Viswanath, Alan D. Kaye

“…We briefly discuss our experience with a patient who suffered from this conidtion and how it was treated with mandibular and maxillary nerve blocks after failing more conservative pharmacological options.…”
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Recovery of image blocks using the method of edge orientation projections by GE Shi-ming, CHENG Yi-min, ZENG Dan, HE Bing-bing

Subjects: “…recovery of image blocks…”
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Research and optimization on quality of service in distributed block storage system by Yaofeng TU, Hongzhang YANG, Yinjun HAN, Zhenghua CHEN

“…In cloud storage technology,resource reuse and sharing is a double-edged sword.While it reducing the overhead for customers,it leads to a situation that the different applications will compete for hardware resources,especially when resource requirement exceeded storage system capability.As a consequence the cloud storage system is unable to provide satisfactory quality of service.An adaptive scheduling technology was proposed,solving the resource balance problem between front tasks and back tasks.A multilevel popularity cache replacement technology was also proposed,solving the resource balance problems between the front tasks themselves.These technology was implemented and tested on the ZTE distributed block storage system.The proposed technology satisfies the expectations of the quality of service from the users.…”
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Image double fragile watermarking algorithm based on block neighborhood by Yilong WANG, Zhenyu LI, Daofu GONG, Fenlin LIU

“…To address the security risks associated with fixed offset mapping in self-embedded watermarking technology, as well as the limited recovery rate of single watermarking methods, an image double fragile watermarking algorithm based on block neighborhood was proposed.The image was divided into non-overlapping blocks of size 4×4 and block truncation coding was used to generate the recovery watermark based on the image block.For each image block, a neighborhood of a proper size was specified and two mapping blocks were randomly selected from the regions within and outside the neighborhood.Then the recovery watermark was embedded into the two mapping blocks simultaneously.The image block neighborhood setting mechanism of the algorithm ensured that the image block maintains a certain distance from its corresponding mapping block.Additionally, the selection mechanism of mapping blocks inside and outside the image block neighborhood ensured a certain distance between the two mapping blocks, thereby guaranteeing the security of the watermark.In the case of continuous region tampering, the relationship between the tampered region and the neighborhood of the image block was analyzed theoretically.The analysis showed that a suitable image block neighborhood can improve the average recovery rate of the tampered area compared with the random mapping embedding algorithm.Besides, the distribution trend of the average recovery rate of the tampered area and the recovery rate of each image block in the tampered area were given by numerical calculation.It was found that the tampered area image block can be recovered 100%, some image blocks in the center of the tampered area can be recovered 100%, and the recovery rate of image blocks in tampered area will be reduced.The experimental results verify the rationality and effectiveness of the theoretical analysis.Moreover, when the neighborhood parameters are large, the proposed algorithm achieves a higher average recovery rate of the tampered region than the random mapping embedding algorithm in the case of continuous region tampering.…”
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Suitability of jute fiber in the production of eco-friendly building block by Sumaya Sadia Toha, Md. Golam Mostofa, Md. Moinul Islam, Md. Saiful Islam

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Ultrasound-Guided Quadrilateral Space Block for the Diagnosis of Quadrilateral Syndrome by Hamilton Chen, Vincent Reginald Narvaez

“…In this case report, we describe a novel ultrasound-guided technique for a diagnostic quadrilateral space block and present a case where the diagnostic block was used to diagnose QSS. …”
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Palatability Test of Mineral Herbal Blocks on Performans of Local Sheep by Aisyah Nurmi, Muharram Fajrin Harahap

“…The research parameter is the mineral palatability of herbal blocks and body weight gain. The results showed that MBH given turmeric (10%), ginger (10%) and a combination of 5% + 5% ginger showed a non-significant effect on feed consumption and conversion. …”
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Pseudo-, Xantho-, and now Stenotrophomonas maltophilia: New Kid on the Block by JM Conly, SD Shafran

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Generalized Block-Diagonalization Schemes for MIMO Relay Broadcasting Systems by Xianan Wang, Xiaoxiang Wang, Wenrong Gong, Zijia Huang

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