MIC-A and MIC-B are distant MHC class I homologs that serve as stress-inducible Ags on epithelial and epithelially derived cells. They are ligands for the widely expressed activating immunoreceptor NKG2D. To define the structural and functional consequences of sequence differences between MIC-A and MIC-B and between alleles of MIC-A and alleles of MIC-B, we determined the crystal structure of o...

The paper presents a simple probabilistic analysis of the energy consumption in preamble sampling MAC protocols. We validate the analytical results with simulations. We compare the classical MAC protocols (B-MAC and X-MAC) with LA-MAC, a method proposed in a companion paper. Our analysis highlights the energy savings achievable with LA-MAC with respect to B-MAC and X-MAC. It also shows that LA-...

Performance of multistage interference cancellation (MIC) and three combining techniques, i.e., multipath decorrelating (MIC-DECO), optimum combining (MIC-OPTM), and Rake combining (MIC-RAKE) for asynchronous QPSK/ DS/CDMA over frequency-selective multipath Rayleigh fading channels is studied. The analytical bit error probabilities of the MIC-DECO and MIC-OPTM are derived and shown to be in a g...

Objective:  To investigate whether a low body mass index (BMI) has significant relationship with mandibular bone porosity progression by conducting inferior cortex (MIC) classification in elderly Japanese people.  Material and Methods: A total of 266 study subjects, aged 70 at baseline, were recruited for this study, conducted from 1998 to 2007. The subjects divided into two groups according ch...

BACKGROUND The authors' previous study demonstrated that xenon (Xe) and nitrous oxide (N2O) in combination with sevoflurane can attenuate cardiovascular responses to skin incision. To quantitatively evaluate their suppressive effects on cardiovascular responses, the authors compared the MAC-BAR (minimum alveolar concentration that blocks adrenergic or cardiovascular response to incision) values...