Recent studies show that nasal high flow (NHF) therapy can support ventilation in patients with acute or chronic respiratory disorders. Clearance of dead space has been suggested as being the key mechanism of respiratory support with NHF therapy. The hypothesis of this study was that NHF in a dose-dependent manner can clear dead space of the upper airways from expired air and decrease rebreathi...

Space-time block codes provide substantial diversity advantages for multiple transmit antenna systems at a low decoding complexity. In this paper, we concatenate space-time codes with Convolutional Codes (CC), Turbo Convolutional codes (TC), Turbo BCH codes (TBCH), Trellis Coded Modulation (TCM) and Turbo Trellis Coded Modulation (TTCM) schemes for achieving a high coding gain. The associated p...

Automatic classification of colon into normal and malignant classes is complex due to numerous factors including similar colors in different biological constituents of histopathological imagery. Therefore, such techniques, which exploit the textural and geometric properties of constituents of colon tissues, are desired. In this paper, a novel feature extraction strategy that mathematically mode...

(i) An explicit description of the range D(X)̂where X is a Euclidean space or a symmetric space of the noncompact type ([2], [3]). Here (D = Cc ). In the first case, f̂ in (1.1) is integration over hyperplanes in X = Rn; in the latter case f̂ in (1.1) refers to integration over horocycles ξ in the symmetric space X. (ii) Medical application in X-ray reconstruction ([6], p.47). (iii) Existence theo...

The switch design for interconnection networks plays an important role in the overall performance of multiprocessors and computer networks. It is therefore crucial to study various factors in the switch design space and their influence on the system performance. In this paper we first propose a 4-D framework for the design of input queuing switches with wormhole routing and virtual channels. Th...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to explore the relationships of HPIP expression status with the clinicopathological variables and survival outcomes of patients with cervical cancer (CC). METHODS We compared the HPIP expression of 119 samples from CC tissues, 20 from cervical intraepithelial tissues, and 20 from normal cervical tissues by using immunohistochemical staining. RESULTS It w...

Angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) is present on the luminal surface of the coronary vessels, mostly on capillary endothelium. ACE is also expressed on coronary smooth muscle cells and on plaque lipid-laden macrophages. Excessive coronary circulation (CC)-ACE activity might be linked to plaque progression. Here we used the biologically inactive ACE substrate (3)H-labeled benzoyl-Phe-Ala-Pro ([...

We propose using sum-over-states calculations with the compact wavefunctions of Monte Carlo configuration interaction to approach accurate values for higher-order dipole properties up to second hyperpolarizabilities in a controlled way. We apply the approach to small systems that can generally be compared with full configuration interaction (FCI) results. We consider hydrogen fluoride with a 6-...

It is extremely important to minimize network access time in constructing a high-performance PC cluster system. For an SCI-based PC cluster, it is possible to reduce the network access time by maintaining network cache in each cluster node. This paper presents a CCNUMA card that utilizes network cache for SCI-based PC clustering. The CC-NUMA card is directly plugged into the PCI slot of each no...

Space division multiplexing elastic optical networks (SDM-EONs) based on multi-core fiber (MCF) technologies have attracted widespread attention as a potential means of enhancing large capacity and high flexibility. However, inter-core crosstalk (XT) degrades the quality transmission. The algorithm for minimizing XT leads to an increase in spectrum fragmentation lightpath, which influences util...