BACKGROUND World Health Organization (WHO)/Joint United Nations Programme on AIDS (UNAIDS) has recommended adult male circumcision (AMC) for the prevention of heterosexually acquired HIV infection in men from communities where HIV is hyperendemic and AMC prevalence is low. The objective of this study was to investigate the feasibility of the roll-out of medicalized AMC according to UNAIDS/WHO o...

In this paper, we consider a new packet scheduler exploiting the multiuser diversity in a wireless network with an AMC (Adaptive Modulation and Coding) scheme, and propose an analytic model based on the effective bandwidth theory to investigate the joint effect of the AMC scheme and the packet scheduler on system performance. Based on our analytic results as well as numerical results, we show h...

We analyze alternative designs for Advanced Market Commitment (AMC) programs to stimulate the development of new vaccine markets. We show that the initial mechanism proposed for these programs provides inefficient investment incentives, but a small modification that ties subsidies to committed supply increases efficiency. We also analyze the role of price ceilings, supplier competition and the ...

BACKGROUND Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV), a member of the Flaviviridae family, causes around 68,000 encephalitis cases annually, of which 20-30% are fatal, while 30-50% of the recovered cases develop severe neurological sequelae. Specific antivirals for JEV would be of great importance, particularly in those cases where the infection has become persistent. Being indispensable for flaviviral...

A new decoder architecture for nonbinary low-density parity check (LDPC) codes is presented in this paper to reduce the hardware operational complexity and power consumption. Adaptive message control (AMC) is to achieve the low decoding complexity, that dynamically trims the message length of belief information to reduce the amount of memory accesses and arithmetic operations. A new horizontal ...

Adaptive modulation and coding (AMC) is a method which adapts its transmitting parameters according to the channel state and is used in various modern wireless communications to maximize spectrum efficiency by minimizing the error rate. One of the driving strengths of AMC is the Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) estimation and feedback channel for adaptation. Degrading effects caused due to sudden va...

In this paper, we propose and observe a system that adopts Independent MCS (Modulation and Coding Scheme) level for each layer in the combined AMC-V-BLAST (Adaptive Modulation and Coding-Vertical-Bell-lab Layered Space-Time) system. Also, comparing with the combined system using Common MCS level, we observe how much throughput performance is improved. As a result of simulation, Independent MCS ...

A wide range of approaches and techniques have been explored in attempts to build Automatic music composition (AMC) systems. However, most attempts have tended to use a single, centralized technique for the entire AMC process. This has many drawbacks. This paper proposes a solution to these drawbacks in the form of a tree-like structure made up of several interacting emergent systems. The struc...

ISSN 1746-0751 Regen. Med. (2012) 7(3), 1–5 1 10.2217/RME.12.9 © 2012 Future Medicine Ltd A successful cell therapy industry is extremely important to the UK economy because it offers significant benefits to patients and to the National Health Service and because it provides an opportunity to grow a knowledge-based industry that can remain largely local. There are currently 26 cell therapy comp...

Segmental dilatation of ileum (SDI) is a rare clinical entity and so is anterior thoracic meningomyelocele (AMC). There has been no reported association between these two clinical entities. We hereby report a very rare presentation of these two in a 4 year old boy who presented with swelling in the right lower abdomen. Preoperative diagnoses were partial cecal volvulus and duplication cyst. At ...