Sensors implanted inside a body compose so called intra body networks (IBNs), which promise high degree of mobility, remote diagnostic accuracy, and the potential of directly activating the action of drug delivery actuators. To enable communication among these implanted sensors, we use the concept of galvanic coupling, in which extremely low energy electrical signals are coupled into the human ...

Several technologies have been developed to isolate human antibodies against different target antigens as a source of potential therapeutics, including hybridoma technology, phage and yeast display systems. For conventional antibodies, this involves either random pairing of VH and variable light (VL) domains in combinatorial display libraries or isolation of cognate pairs of VH and VL domains f...

BACKGROUND Circulating tumor cells (CTCs) in blood circulation may play a role in monitoring and even in early detection of metastasis patients. Due to the limited presence of CTCs in blood circulation, viable CTCs isolation technology must supply a very high recovery rate. METHODS Here, we implement design of experiments (DOE) methodology in order to optimize the Bio-Ferrography (BF) immunom...

The reverse genetics technologies that have recently been developed for mice have provided new tools to probe gene function in vivo. Unfortunately these powerful systems often require the analysis of large numbers of DNA samples. The genetargeting technology requires screening of embryonic stem-cell clones and later of the mice themselves, the latter also being the case for standard transgenic ...

This paper presents a protocol for efficient transaction management in an environment of replicated autonomous databases. Each replicated copy has ownership over mutually exclusive portions of the database. The protocol improves response time and throughput by exploiting parallelism although reducing the degree of transaction isolation. Most modifications to the database are assumed to be on th...

Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in developing countries is expected to foster technology transfer from foreign-owned to local firms. Using detailed panel data from Tunisian manufacturing firms, we show that technological spillovers generated by FDI, as a form of technology transfer, help firms move near the best practice frontier (production frontier) measured by the Schmidt and Sickles method....

I analyze the welfare implications of protecting intellectual property rights (IPRs) in developing countries through its impact on innovation, market structure, and technology transfer. FDI, tariffs, and cooperation are introduced to the strategic IPR literature. In a North-South framework, the Southern government sets the IPR policy strategically by anticipating the Northern firm’s decision on...

We propose a new conceptual model for understanding technological evolution that highlights dynamic and highly interdependent relationships among multiple technologies. We propose that, when technology evolution is discussed, a single technology cannot be considered in isolation. Instead, we argue that technology evolution is best viewed as a dynamic system that includes the totality of interre...