Here we describe a case of a composite mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) and chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small cell lymphocytic lymphoma (CLL/SLL) with 17p deletion in the MCL. The patient presented with 3 years of progressive lymphocytosis. Cervical lymph node biopsy showed morphologic features of nodular MCL and internodular CLL/SLL, two populations of CD5+ cells by flow cytometry, a t(11;14) trans...

This chapter develops a taxonomy of learning methods using techniques based on Newell’s knowledge level. Two properties of each system are defined: knowledge level predictability and knowledge level learning. A system is predictable at the knowledge level if the principle of rationality can be applied to predict its behavior. A system learns at the knowledge level if its knowledge level descrip...

Ali Habibi, Ph.D. Concordia University, 2005 The advancement in the hardware area made it possible the integration of a complete yet complex system on a single chip (called System-on-a-Chip: SoC). Over 10 million gates, integrated together and running a real time optimized software red crossed classical design techniques. The payback of this advancement resides in the challenge facing SoC desig...

This study investigated the role of several chemokines and their receptors on malignant B lymphocytes recovered from 13 patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), 9 with hairy cell leukemia (HCL), 5 with mantle cell lymphoma (MCL), 5 with marginal zone B-cell lymphoma (MZL), 6 with small lymphocytic lymphoma (SLL), and 5 with follicular cell lymphoma (FCL). Flow cytometry analysis demons...

The aim of the current study was to test whether or not proprioceptive errors (biases) are associated with visual memory performance, and to distinguish which movement types are more important in this relationship. The study included 63 pupils with normal vision, including 49 pupils from a conventional school and 14 pupils from a school for slower children. We used the Proprioceptive Diagnosis ...

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In this paper the maximum sidelobe level (SLL) reductions without and with central element feeding in various designs of three-ring concentric circular antenna arrays (CCAA) are examined using Particle Swarm Optimization with Constriction Factor Approach (PSOCFA) to finally determine the global optimal CCAA design. Binary coded Genetic Algorithm (BGA) is also employed for comparative optimizati...

A concentric circular antenna array (CCAA) consists of elements positioned on the periphery of imaginary circles on a plane having a common centre and different radii. The simplest way to feed the elements of such an array is to use uniform excitation. However, with a non-uniform excitation profile, considerable reduction of the side lobe level (SLL) may be achieved at the cost of the added com...

A 3-D beam scanning antenna array design is proposed that gives a whole 3-D spherical coverage and also suitable for various radar and body-worn devices in the Body Area Networks applications. The Array Factor (AF) of the proposed antenna is derived and its various parameters like directivity, Half Power Beam Width (HPBW) and Side Lobe Level (SLL) are calculated by varying the size of the propo...

—In this paper, the goal is to achieve an ultra low sidelobe level (SLL) and sideband levels (SBL) of a time modulated linear antenna array. The approach followed here is not to give fixed level of excitation to the elements of an array, but to change it dynamically with time. The excitation levels of the different array elements over time are varied to get the low sidelobe and sideband levels....