THE RECROSS DUAL-LUMEN MICROCATHETER VERSATILITY DURING PERCUTANEOUS CORONARY INTERVENTION OF CHRONIC TOTAL CORONARY OCCLUSIONS

The ReCross dual-lumen microcatheter versatility during percutaneous coronary intervention of chronic total coronary occlusions

To the Accessories Editor, Microcatheters are essential tools to facilitate guidewire manipulation and exchange, thus enhancing the guidewire penetration force.1 The ReCross over-the-wire dual-lumen microcatheter (DLM) (IMDS, The Netherlands) is the latest evolution among DLM microcatheters.However, no data are available in the medical literature y

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Humanitarian Intervention and the Changing Concepts of Sovereignty

U.N.Secretary General Kofi Annan recently observed that "state sovereignty, in its most basic sense, is being redefined.by the forces of globalisation and international cooperation." The article deals with the Collections question of how much this is an accurate observation in the context of humanitarian intervention.Within the theories of classica

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Effect of National Culture on Corporate Social Responsibility

The literature recognizes several endogenous and exogenous factors influencing the behavior and performance of companies in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR).The aim of the study is to analyze the effect of culture (Hofstede dimensions) on MELATONIN + GABA CSR in BRIC countries.The sample comprised 397 companies from Brazil, Russia, India and C

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Positive-Operator Valued Measure (POVM) Quantization

We present a general formalism for giving a measure space paired with a separable Hilbert space a quantum version based on a normalized positive operator-valued measure.The latter are built from Acrylic Plant Marker families of density operators labeled by points of the measure space.We especially focus on various probabilistic aspects of these con

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