The replacement of the traditional tin-lead solder to interconnect solar cells by using electrically conductive adhesives (ECAs) has been under study for decades. Proof concept demonstrated shingling technology among other applications. However, long-term stability such innovative interconnection approaches needs further research. In this work, we extrapolate figure merit known as contact resis...

INTRODUCTION During HIV-1 infection the B-cell compartment undergoes profound changes towards terminal differentiation, which are only partially restored by antiretroviral therapy (cART). MATERIALS AND METHODS To investigate the impact of infection as early as during primary HIV-1 infection (PHI) we assessed distribution of B-cell subsets in 19 PHI and 25 chronic HIV-1-infected (CHI) individu...

BACKGROUND The contemporary treatment of oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) is an area of debate. We report outcomes of a minimally invasive approach involving transoral laser microsurgery (TLM). METHODS A consecutive series of patients (n = 153) undergoing primary TLM for oropharyngeal SCC from 2006 to 2013 was studied. Human papillomavirus (HPV) status was determined by p16 immunoh...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS To retrospectively analyze our experience of transoral laser microsurgery (TLM) for treating postoperative laryngeal obstruction (POLO) after supracricoid and supratracheal laryngectomy (open partial horizontal laryngectomy [OPHL]) types 2 and 3, and to investigate potential relationships between patients' clinical features and their functional outcomes. STUDY DESIGN A r...

AIMS To assess the role of transoral robotic surgery (TORS) in managing failures of conventional transoral laser microsurgery (TLM) in cases with difficult laryngeal exposure. METHODS Retrospective analysis of 3 patients with difficult laryngeal exposure treated with TORS. All 3 cases failed to be managed by conventional TLM after repeated attempts by experienced surgeons. In 2 cases, the ini...

Ecological sampling can be labor intensive, and logistically impractical in certain environments. We optimize line intercept sampling and compare estimation methods for assessing feral swine damage within fragile wetland ecosystems in Florida. Sensitive wetland sites, and the swine damage within them, were mapped using GPS technology. Evenly spaced parallel transect lines were simulated across ...

Interconnect Component MEM T2 HDS API Transaction Accurate Architecture T2 T3 Comm OS HAL API HDS API SystemC TLM Interconnect Component (Bus/NoC) CPU-SS1 Abstract CPU1 Periph Interface Memory Abstract CPU2 Periph Interface Memory CPU-SS2 MEM-SS T2 HDS API Comm OS HAL API T3 HAL Virtual Prototype SystemC TLM CPU-SS1 CPU1 ISS Periph Interface Memory CPU2 ISS Periph Interface Memory CPU-SS2 Inter...

The ends of eukaryotic chromosomes are protected by telomeres, nucleoprotein structures that are essential for chromosomal stability and integrity. Understanding how telomere length is controlled has significant medical implications, especially in the fields of aging and cancer. Two recent systematic genome-wide surveys measuring the telomere length of deleted mutants in the yeast Saccharomyces...

BACKGROUND Transoral laser microsurgery (TLM) of the glottis is increasingly utilized in the current management of early glottic cancer, its advantages being administrative ease, potential to be repeated, ability to keep radiotherapy and open laryngeal surgery available as salvage options, and low complication rates. METHODS A retrospective chart review of prospectively gathered data on all p...

With the increasing complexity of today’s system-on-chip (SoC) designs, taking advantage of transaction level modeling (TLM) is being more widespread. TLM allows better simulation performances and early system prototyping. Therefore, the quality of a transaction level model needs to be assured. In this paper, we present a fully automated runtime verification framework for the assertion-based ve...