ing. The band control received a coulterknife pass without fertilizer. Soybean response to direct P application was evaluated in seven trials (Sites 1 through 7). The treatments were applied in the fall (October or November) after harvesting the previous corn crop and before soils had frozen. At the remaining seven trials (Sites 8 through 14), P was applied 1 year earlier (in the fall prior to ...

A banda gástrica é considerada um tratamento menos eficiente que a derivação gástrica em Y de Roux, mas ainda é utilizada pela facilidade de realização e pelo baixo índice de mortalidade peroperatória. A longo prazo, as complicações têm sido muito altas, tornando a cirurgia quase proibitiva.1 Apresentamos um caso de megaesôfago grau IV póscirurgia de banda gástrica para tratamento de obesidade ...

Monitoring a sensor network to quickly detect faults is important for maintaining the health of the network. Out-of-band monitoring, i.e., deploying dedicated monitors and transmitting monitoring traffic using a separate channel, does not require instrumenting sensor nodes, and hence is flexible (can be added on top of any application) and energy conserving (not consuming resources of the senso...

BACKGROUND Minimally invasive techniques were associated with bariatric surgery, leading to a decrease in aggression to the organs and systems. Robotic surgery is a new possibility within the concept of minimal invasion. AIM To evaluate the initial experience of robotic surgery for obesity. METHODS Twenty seven patients were operated in the same hospital, by the same team with the same surg...

Mallory-Weiss tearing (MWT) is a common cause of non-variceal upper gastrointestinal bleeding. Although the majority of patients with bleeding MWT require no intervention other than hemodynamic supports, spectrum of MWT is wide, and the condition sometimes results in a fatal outcome. Endoscopic management to stop the bleeding may be required during the index endoscopy, especially in those with ...

In this paper, the control of sound propagation in an air-handling duct is investigated. Employing identified discrete t ime models of the duct, robust linear controllers are designed using the combined pole placement/sensitivity function shaping method. T h e particularities of harmonic noise sources are taken into account, avoiding the classical stochastic adaptive and the reference noise bas...

The miniaturization of mobile phone antennas by means of purposeful tuning of chassis mode resonances is discussed. A simple approach to antenna independent analysis of chassis mode resonances is introduced. A novel technique for simultaneous tuning of a bar-type phone chassis in two frequency bands is presented. The optimum design and placement of capacitive coupling elements for excitation of...

A method of non-prescriptive neurofeedback is described that is based on the brain interacting with its own tonic slow cortical potential. In the absence of any explicit guidance by the clinician, the training depends entirely on the brain’s response to the unfolding signal. When this training is performed under optimal conditions in terms of placement and target frequency, there is a bias towa...

Damping of two deformation modes by one control loop has been demonstrated by simulation for a typcial 3 MW wind turbine. The vibration levels of the 2 and 3 in-plane modal modes were significantly reduced. Calculations with the aerodynamic code PHATAS showed an overall in-plane fatigue load reduction by ca 40%. The control loop includes a Kalman filter that estimates state variables for the mo...

The virtualization of Radio Access Networks (RANs) has been proposed as one of the important use cases of Network Function Virtualization (NFV). In Virtualized Radio Access Networks (VRANs), some functions from a Base Station (BS), such as those which make up the Base Band Unit (BBU), may be implemented in a shared infrastructure located at either a data center or distributed in network nodes. ...