OBJECTIVES The aim of the present study was to investigate the cause-specific patterns of unintentional injury mortality among 15-44-year-olds in various income-based country groups, and to analyze which specific causes contribute the most to the unintentional injury mortality in each country group. MATERIALS AND METHODS Cross-sectional data on the five most common causes of unintentional inj...

Mississippi Valley Type (MVT) 1 deposits represent the majority of carbonate-hosted Zn–Pb globally. They typically form in an extensional tectonic setting along passive margins. However, studies on Sichuan–Yunnan–Guizhou Triangle area (SYGT) reveal differences terms essential features typical MVT deposits. We discuss main these deposits, controlled by folds and faults, high-grade ores symbiotic...

The multihop cellular architecture with relaying is expected to be a cost-effective solution to reduce the transmission distance and increase the amount of users under more favorable channel conditions with better channel quality and higher throughput. In this article, we present the architecture and evaluate the performances of multihop cellular networks (MCNs) for thirdgeneration (3G) long-te...

1556-6072/09/$25.00©2009IEEE IEEE VEHICULAR TECHNOLOGY MAGAZINE | JUNE 2009 Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MVT.2009.932543 The radio spectrum is a precious resource that underpins various wireless services. It is traditionally regulated by a fixed frequency assignment policy, which allocates frequency bands to license holders for exclusive use. Such a static and rigid spectrum-licensing poli...

extensive ischemic compromise, no resection should be done. Factors that seem to alter early survival are early diagnosis and anticoagulation, associated diseases and patient age. The relapse rate is high; thus, when a hereditary hypercoagulable state is detected, prolonged systemic anticoagulation should be maintained, while in other pro-thrombotic conditions 6 months of treatment provide adeq...

We herein report a 34-year-old man who was investigated for severe abdominal pain. Portal vein thrombosis (PVT) and mesenteric vein thrombosis (MVT) were diagnosed. An association with two predisposing factors for thrombosis was noted: (1) heterozygous factor II 20210G/A mutation and (2) homozygous methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MTHFR) 677C/T mutation with hyperhomocysteinemia. Our case i...

With advance in technology and working frequency reaching gigahertz, designing and testing interconnects have become an important issue. In this paper, we proposed a BIST-based boundary scan architecture to at-speed test of crosstalk faults for inter-switch communication links in network on chip. This architecture includes enhanced cells intended for MVT model test patterns generation and analy...

A new thyristor is proposed and realized in the foundry’s 0.18-μm CMOS process for electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection. Without extra mask layers or process steps, the new ultra-low-voltage-trigger thyristor (ULVT thyristor) has a trigger voltage as low as 6.7 V and an ESD robustness exceeding 50 mA/μm, which enables effective ESD protection. Compared with the traditional medium-voltage-tr...

We analyze high signal-to-noise spectra for 14 globular clusters (GCs) in the Sombrero galaxy, NGC 4594 = M104, obtained with the LRIS spectrograph on the Keck I telescope. We find generally good agreement between spectroscopic metallicities and previous photometric metallicites based on V −I colors. Further, we use measurements of various Balmer line indices on co-added spectra of metal-poor a...