MATERIALS AND METHODS: Hospitalizations for clipping or coiling of unruptured cerebral aneurysms from 2001 to 2008 were identified by cross-matching ICD codes for the diagnosis of unruptured aneurysm (437.3) with procedural codes for clipping (39.51) or coiling (39.52, 39.79, or 39.72) of cerebral aneurysms and excluding all patients with a diagnosis of subarachnoid hemorrhage (430) and intrace...

Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing with Offset Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (OFDM/OQAM) signal has high peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) problem. It not only affects the distortion in High Power Amplifier (HPA) but also results bit error (BER) degradation. In this paper an improved algorithm based on Clipping and Compressed Sensing (CS) is proposed. The transmitter uses clipping to...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS It is generally assumed that plants respond to natural enemies by either allocating resources to resistance traits or compensating for damage. This study evaluated how different methods of artificial shoot removal influence two alternative strategies (i.e. tolerance and defence) of Caragana korshinskii in the semi-arid area of China. METHODS Zero per cent (control), 30% (3...

Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) is one of the modulation techniques used in digital video broadcasting systems. A significant disadvantage of OFDM is that it has a high peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR). This means that the output amplifiers of digital television transmitters must be designed to handle signals that are far in excess of the mean levels. These amplifiers are ex...

A modified Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) system for robust progressive image transmission is proposed in this paper. A joint source-channel coder (JSCC) is employed in the modified OFDM system. The set partitioning hierarchical trees (SPIHT) used as source coder, and The Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) used as a channel coder. The SPIHT coder is modified to generate four dif...

INTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVE To evaluate the results of our program of clipping the thoracic sympathetic nervous system (TSNS) for the treatment of facial flush and/or hyperhidrosis (HH), and to compare the methodology-results of the program development phase (A: January 2007-April 2009) and its consolidation phase (B: May 2009-March 2010). MATERIAL AND METHODS The program included a total of 4...