Erythropoiesis-stimulating agents are indicated for the treatment of chemotherapy induced-anemia in cancer patients. Controlled clinical studies have shown that epoetin alfa consistently and significantly increases levels of hemoglobin (Hb), decreases the need for RBC transfusion, and improves the quality of life that is of such importance in cancer patients with a limited life expectancy. The ...

EWT solar cells start from drilled wafers with approximately 100 holes/cm. These holes act as stress concentrators leading to a reduction in the mechanical strength of this type of wafers. The viability of cells with higher density of holes has been studied. To this end, sets of wafers with different density of holes have been characterized. The ring on ring test has been employed and FE models...

In this paper we examine the effects of the required portions of guard timing spaces in a MAC frame of ETSI BRAN HIPERLAN/2 system such as inter-mobile guard timing space in UL(Up Link) duration, inter-RCH(Random CHannel) guard timing space, sector switch guard timing space. In particular, we calculate the number of OFDM(Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing) symbols required for these gua...

Musicians are sensitive to the synchrony of multiple tone onsets. However, even when several sounds have a simultaneous onset, their temporal relationship might not be preserved at the cochlear level because of “cochlear delays” in perception. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether cochlear delay significantly affects synchrony judgment accuracy and whether this phenomenon is depe...

It is well-known that utilizing existing network facilities in the construction of new network is very important in the case of short-term network design [1]. The reason is that existing network facilities are ready to be used and cannot be changed easily in a short period of time. For the short-term network design, we have studied the link capacity assignment for packet-switched networks with ...