During recent years, increasing evidence has accumulated that preformed antidonor human leukocyte antigen (HLA) class II antibodies represent significant risk factors for transplant dysfunction and failure (1– 6). Also, the posttransplant development of anticlass II antibodies is associated with a higher incidence of acute and chronic rejection (7–14). In this issue, the report by Issa et al. (...

This paper solves the problem of cooperative path planning multiple unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) for search and coverage tasks in water environments. Firstly, taking pollutants as an example, information concentration map is built to predict diffusion pollutants. Secondly, we propose a region division method based on Voronoi diagram, which divides assigns it each vehicle (USV). Then, basis ...

A NEW LPC ERROR CRITERION FOR IMPROVED PITCH TRACKING Mohammad R. Zad-Issa and Peter Kabal Electrical Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3A 2A7 ABSTRACT In Linear Predictive coders the output of the LP analysis lter is used to represent the glottal excitation signal. For high pitched voices during nasal sounds or nasalized vowels, the speech signal takes on a sinusoidal s...

The first two papers address issues surrounding learner inspection of peer models, and the availability of learner models to course instructors. Bull, Mabbott and Abu Issa present the UMPTEEN system which allows students to open their learner models to others in named and/or anonymous form. The CosyQTI system presented by Lazarinis and Retalis provides anonymous access to models of peers and re...

In 2013, Japan experienced its first Internet election campaign in history. This essay attempts to analyze political moves in the campaign within the framework of strategic maneuvering developed by Frans H. van Eemeren. Different approaches were found between major and minor parties. An opposition party increased its seats with the effective use of the Internet. With the analysis, the authors h...

Take Heart in the Age of ''Omics'' Print ISSN: 0009-7330. Online ISSN: 1524-4571 Copyright © 2004 American Heart Association, Inc. All rights reserved. is published by the American Heart Association, 7272 Greenville Avenue, Dallas, TX 75231 Circulation Research doi: 10.1161/01.RES.0000141017.99175.dd 2004;95:335-336 Circ Res. http://circres.ahajournals.org/content/95/4/335 World Wide Web at: Th...

Abstract Aspirations to improve health equity and well-being, as well the sustainability of environment, are interconnected. Therefore, it is imperative that public system, environmental science, other sectors work together achieve these goals. For a city be sustainable take into account well-being its citizens, an assessment tool essential for evaluating achieving objectives. One way measure a...