P. Susthitha Menon Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Institute of Microengineering and Nanoelectronics 43600 UKM Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia Abstract. The transmission of both optical code division multiple-access (OCDMA) and wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) users on the same band is investigated. Code pulses of spectral amplitude coding (SAC)/optical code division multiple-access (CDMA) are o...

Background: the Random Gap Detection Test (RGDT) evaluates temporal resolution threshold. There are doubts as to whether performance in this task remains unchanged with the aging process. At the same time, there is a concern about how much the difficulties of communication experienced by elderly individuals are related to the deterioration of temporal resolution. Aim: to determine auditory temp...

To reveal differentiation potency of yolk-sac endoderm, this tissue from quail embryos was cultured alone or in association with digestive-tract mesenchymes of chick embryos. When yolk-sac endoderm was cultured alone in vitro, the endoderm of the area vitellina differentiated into the yolk-sac parenchyma, but the endoderm of the extraembryonic area pellucida (EEAP) failed to differentiate into ...

BACKGROUND Rational and cost-effective prescription of medicines requires up-to-date and readily accessible medicines information. There are several studies on availability and access to medicines information sources, but have been conducted only in high-income countries. OBJECTIVE To assess medicines information sources accessed by physicians in public hospitals in Uganda, and physicians' op...

BACKGROUND Femoral hernias are relatively uncommon, however they are the most common incarcerated abdominal hernia, with strangulation of a viscus carrying significant mortality. Classically three approaches are described to open femoral hernia repair: Lockwood's infra-inguinal, Lotheissen's trans-inguinal and McEvedy's high approach. Each approach describes a separate skin incision and dissect...

Integrating medical data at inter-centre level implies many challenges that are being tackled from many disciplines and technologies. Medical informatics have applied an important effort on describing and standardizing Electronic Health Records, and specially standardisation has achieved an important extent on Medical Imaging. Grid technologies have been extensively used to deal with multi-doma...

INTRODUCTION Rhinosporidiosis may mimic a burst chalazion or a simple conjunctival polyp. OBJECTIVE To study the demography, histopathological evaluation, treatment modalities, their outcomes and recurrence rates in patients clinically and histopathologically diagnosed as ocular and adnexal rhinosporidiosis. PATIENTS AND METHODS The study was conducted in the Department of Orbit, Oculoplast...