Quantitative comparative analyses of protein abundances using peptide ion intensities and their modifications have become a widely used technique in studying various biological questions. In the past years, several methods for quantitative proteomics were established using stable-isotope labeling and label-free approaches. We systematically evaluated the application of reference protein normali...

BACKGROUND Risk management is a set of actions to recognize or identify risks, errors and their consequences and to take the steps to counter it. The aim of our study was to apply FMECA (Failure Mode, Effects and Criticality Analysis) to the Activated Protein C resistance (APCR) test in order to detect and avoid mistakes in this process. METHODS We created a team and the process was divided i...

Dalam mempertahankan keandalan suatu mesin maka dibutuhkan sebuah perawatan. PT. XYZ sebagai perusahaan yang bergerak dibidang jasa transportasi kereta sering menggunakan bubut roda underfloor salah satu bentuk Tingginya intensitas penggunaan membuat tersebut mengalami kerusakan dan dapat menghambat proses perawatan sarana. Tujuan dari penelitian ini adalah untuk mengidentifikasi komponen menja...

BACKGROUND A standard of care for the treatment of small renal masses is partial nephrectomy. The open and laparoscopic approaches have been well described in the literature. Robotic assistance may augment partial nephrectomy by aiding in dissection and renal reconstruction. In this communication we describe the surgical outcomes of 35 patients undergoing robotic partial nephrectomy. METHODS ...

Previous studies done by the authors have shown that analgesic abuse, RPN and analgesic nephropathy (AN) are prevalent in the Malaysian population. In a survey conducted on three different groups of population, viz., inpatients in the medical wards of General Hospital, Kuala Lumpur, the people from Kampong Pandan and two rubber estates, it was found that 0.5 2.0% of the people surveyed had cons...

We present AVOD, an Aggregate View Object Detection network for autonomous driving scenarios. The proposed neural network architecture uses LIDAR point clouds and RGB images to generate features that are shared by two subnetworks: a region proposal network (RPN) and a second stage detector network. The proposed RPN uses a novel architecture capable of performing multimodal feature fusion to gen...

We present the biologically inspired Ripple Pond Network (RPN), a simply connected spiking neural network which performs a transformation converting two dimensional images to one dimensional temporal patterns (TP) suitable for recognition by temporal coding learning and memory networks. The RPN has been developed as a hardware solution linking previously implemented neuromorphic vision and memo...

We show for the first time, to the best of our knowledge, that, in a coherent communication system that employs a phase-shift-keying signal and Raman amplification, besides the pump relative intensity noise (RIN) transfer to the amplitude, the signal's phase will also be affected by pump RIN through the pump-signal cross-phase modulation. Although the average pump power induced linear phase cha...

Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) is a widely used engineering technique for designing, identifying and eliminating known and/or potential failures, problems, errors and so on from system, design, process, and/or service before they reach the customer (Stamatis, 1995). In a typical FMEA, for each failure modes, three risk factors; severity (S), occurrence (O), and detectability (D) are e...