advances in experimental medicine and biology volume 673

... suggesting promising applications in ECL biosensing and imaging The ECL mechanism was investigated in detail Furthermore, a novel sensor for Cd2+ was proposed based on Cd2+ induced ECL quenching ... of C-H bonding and carbon vacancies affect the optical and magnetic properties of an sp2 nanodomain Integrating all the calculated and experimental results, it is possible to explain the photoreduction-induced ... uniformity in terms of shape (circle), size (less than nm) and thickness (monolayer) The physical origin of the blue and green PL of GQDs and GOQDs was attributed to intrinsic and extrinsic energy

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... Series A: Chemistry and Biology Springer Springer Springer IOS Press IOS Press Emerging and Endemic Pathogens Advances in Surveillance, Detection and Identification edited by Kevin P O’Connell U.S ... country-specific approaches, and their results, in one of the most fundamental tasks in combating emerging infectious disease: detecting and v vi PREFACE describing the incidence of disease in a geographic ... salts in plasma products Suspensions of VACV (10% v/v) in Gamunex® intermediate solution containing 10% sodium caprylate resulted in complete virus inactivation within when incubated at 22°C in

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... eliciting informed consent in routine medical care This is not true when we are dealing with experimental medicine The core element of informed consent is information, reliable, scientifically and ... unlike standard medical practice, there are two distinct objectives being 332 ETHICAL ISSUES IN MOLECULAR MEDICINE AND GENE THERAPY to ethically justify permitting his inclusion in an experimental ... would support a presumption in favor of continuing the development of germline genetic engineering That is, we have argued that germline genetic engineering is not intrinsically morally objectionable

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... RECENT ADVANCES IN WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS AND NETWORKS Edited by Jia-Chin Lin Recent Advances in Wireless Communications and Networks Edited by Jia-Chin Lin Published by InTech Janeza Trdine 9, ... research in theory and engineering development in practice, and as a messenger between the technical pioneers and the researchers who followed in their footstep This book, titled Recent Advances in ... Kao-Peng Chou and Jia-Chin Lin Chapter Synchronization for OFDM-Based Systems 23 Yu-Ting Sun and Jia-Chin Lin Chapter ICI Reduction Methods in OFDM Systems 41 Nadieh M Moghaddam and Mohammad Mohebbi

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... eliminate intersymbol interference and intercarrier interference. In general, the symbol timing offset may vary in an interval that is equal to the guard time and does not cause intersymbol interference ... subdivided into three types: intraband contiguous, intraband discontinuous and interband... frame timing instant is often dominated by its first term because the correlation coefficient term ρ in ... synchronization include identifying the beginning of individual OFDM symbol timing and ensuring the orthogonality of each subcarrier. Various algorithms have been proposed to estimate symbol timing and

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... of combining schemes, including selection combining, switch combining, EGC, and MRC, in the following 2.1.1 Selection combining Selection combining is a simple receive diversity combining scheme ... Equal gain combining Equal gain combing is a suboptimal combining scheme, as compared with the MRC scheme Instead of requiring both the amplitude and phase knowledge of channel state information, ... additional bandwidth or power expenditure Several basic receiver architectures for handling inter-antenna interference, including zero-forcing (ZF), minimum mean square error (MMSE), interference

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... by the groups and classes whose matrices Gg,c = Gmin g,c min min Tg,c Rmin Tg,c g H (42 ) have the smallest common rank, denoted by min min ˜ Dmin = rank(Gmin ) = rank Tg,c Rmin Tg,c g,c g H ... matrix of size LL× . In the following, we introduce three famous beamforming schemes to determine the complex beamforming weights. Recent Advances in Wireless Communications and Networks 88 ... ordering V-BLAST algorithms. 4. Beamforming Beamforming is a promising signal processing technique used to control the directions for transmitting or receiving signals in spatial-angular domain

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... process taking into account the group size in the GO-CDM component while assuming that an efficient ML implementation, such as the one introduced in (Fincke & Pohst, 1985), is in use. To this ... comprises all points resulting from the combinations of r and u that fulfill the power constraint Therefore, the cardinality of R0 depends on γ, Sr and PT As an example, let us consider again the channel ... Fig... on λ Therefore, in these cases the rate region degenerates in a single point on the corresponding axis The rate at this point is the capacity of the corresponding single-user OFDM channel

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... the processing of the signal consists of two separated procedures: averaging in time and accounting for diversity and suppressing noise in spatial 150 12 Recent Advances in Wireless ... demand for wireless services will continue to increase in the near and medium... multi-cell cooperation is already under study in LTE under the Coordinated 166 Recent Advances in ... cannot distinguish between the in- phase and quadrature components and their powers are equally combined to for Z ( N ) In the intermediate case both components are combined according to (67

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... management, joint call admission control tightly interacts with vertical handoff and QoS provisioning schemes in integrated WLAN and 3G cellular networks 192 Recent Advances in Wireless ... Wireless Communications and Networks 2.2 Vertical handoff In integrated networks, there are two types of handoff: intra-technology handoff and intertechnology handoff (Lampropoulos... ... By using the precoding vectors defined in (25) and considering (26), the received signal in (24) reduces to, ,,,,, ,, 1 B eq kl bkl kl kl bkl b ps = =+ ∑ yhn (27) Recent Advances in Wireless

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... corresponding to dynamic changes in link characteristics, link quality and link status It acts all the instances to make event detection and notify, still maintaining the actual link connection ... vertical handoff as handoff intensity in the cell varies. We set new call intensity in UMTS cell n ω = 10, new call intensity in WLAN n ρ = 10, vertical handoff intensity v ρ = 5. Since the ... that blocking probability in WLAN is a monotonically increasing continuous function of δ , while blocking probability and dropping probability in UMTS cell are continuous decreasing functions

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... 244 Recent Advances in Wireless Communications and Networks Pollini G P ( 199 6) Trends in handover design,... explained in the previous section (see code line 10 in Fig 3) Then, ... Communications and Networks one data stream between source and destination endpoints Multistream SCTP includes multistreaming, and finally, multihomed SCTP incorporates multihoming The three ... clearly how the LB approach, providing a more accurate assessment for handover initiation, limits handover initiations, resulting in about a little performance gain. In contrast, PB approach is unstable

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... catastrophizing, ignoring or reinterpreting pain sensations, diverting attention from pain, and praying or hoping for relief In a 6-month follow-up study of patients completing an inpatient pain program, ... conditioning to become extinct Operant conditioning works like this in pain: if a person feels pain upon walking, and the pain is relieved by sitting, the person will choose sitting over walking That ... while also incorporating and unifying the findings of research based on more specialized theories of pain and (2) enhance the ability of clinicians to understand and treat complex pain behavior...

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... catastrophizing, ignoring or reinterpreting pain sensations, diverting attention from pain, and praying or hoping for relief In a 6-month follow-up study of patients completing an inpatient pain program, ... conditioning to become extinct Operant conditioning works like this in pain: if a person feels pain upon walking, and the pain is relieved by sitting, the person will choose sitting over walking That ... while also incorporating and unifying the findings of research based on more specialized theories of pain and (2) enhance the ability of clinicians to understand and treat complex pain behavior...

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... molecular cloning techniques for obtaining and characterizing purified animal proteins involved in cancer and aspects of cell biology The proteins thus characterized include human cathepsins (Wen ... Victor and Sloane, 2007)] Cathepsins are classified mechanistically into groups which include serine (cathepsins A and G), aspartic (cathepsins D and E), and cysteine cathepsins (cathepsins B, ... product resulting in growth of colonies 12 Molecular Cloning – Selected Applications in Medicine and Biology Positive selection has been a powerful method of screening insert containing transformants...

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... presence of ATP and another viral protein ICP8 (single-stranded DNA-binding protein) OBP induces the unwinding of the minimal OriS duplex (80 bp) Interaction of the bis-netropsin with the AT-track ... attached in tail-to-head and tail-to-tail manners via triglycine and cis-diammine Pt(II) residues.41–43 Bis-netropsins containing 15 and 31 lysine residues at the N-terminus of the bis-netropsin molecule ... amino acid residue containing a five-membered aromatic ring Antiviral activity of bis-linked netropsin derivatives is studied Bis-netropsins containing 15 and 31 lysine residues at the N-termini...

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... Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Sponsor EMB-S Liaison to IEEE Press, Metin Akay GENOMICS AND PROTEOMICS ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY Edited by Metin Akay IEEE Engineering in ... nonlinear system’s behavior, Genomics and Proteomics Engineering in Medicine and Biology Edited by Metin Akay Copyright # 2007 the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc 25 26 INTERPRETING ... students and postdoctoral fellows in computer science and mathematics who are interested in doing research in biology and bioengineering since the book provides exceptional insights into the...

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... tract infections (RTI) Two studies have examined the effect in adults of a combined multi-strain probiotic and multivitamin/mineral supplement containing L gasseri, B longum and B bifidum on the incidence, ... can alter the intestinal microflora and reduce the growth of pathogenic microorganisms in the intestines of preterm infants, decreasing the incidence of necrotizing enterocolitis and sepsis Moreover, ... have several effects, including modulating the gut microbiota, promoting mucosal barrier functions, inhibiting mucosal pathogen adherence and interacting with the innate and adaptive immune systems...

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... parameters which satisfies Eq (5) and has infinite magnitude Finding all real solutions of Eq (5) – both finite and at infinity – has been thus reduced to determining all real finite solutions of Eq (6), ... Unfortunately, this kind of systems are very expensive, their J Lenar i and B Roth (eds.), Advances in Robot Kinematics, 3–14 © 2006 Springer Printed in the Netherlands 4 J Andrade-Cetto and F Thomas ... Bobrow and Park, 1995 and Martinez and Duffy, 1995 However, a metric that is independent of these choices, 33 J Lenarcic and B Roth (eds.), Advances in Robot Kinematics, 33 40 © 2006 Springer Printed...

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... ethanol, opiates and benzodiazepines – are sedatives, while others – including nicotine, cocaine and the amphetamines – are stimulants Some – including opiates and cannabinoids – are antinociceptive, ... aPsychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and bMedicine, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and cChronic Pain Treatment Program and dAIDS Psychiatry Service, The Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, ... this volume and in the literature attempt to make black- 14 Treisman · Clark and- white distinctions in opiate use and addictive behavior Opiates are dependence producing and reinforcing, and yet...

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