section 1. Left ventricular wall stress, cardiac elastances, cardiac contractility measures, cardiomyopathic ventricular remodeling and its surgical restoration, active wall stress and systolic pressure generation, vector cardiogram characteristics, and their implications in clinical cardiology -- section 2. ECG signal analysis, left ventricular pumping (intra-ventricular, aortic and coronary flow) characteristics, coronary bypass surgery design, and their implications in clinical cardiology and cardiac surgery.