Ultra Wide Band (UWB) impulse radio, promises to be suitable for short-range, low-power, low cost and high data rate applications. While most UWB research is concentrating on the physical layer, little research has been published on the link layer. The fundamental operations in the link layer need to take into account the specifics of impulse radio and also the particular features of ad hoc net...

AIM This study aims at examining the difficulty in performing forced eruption of impacted maxillary canines, using CBCT information and according to experienced orthodontist's opinion. The second aim was to find the most important factors related to this decision. METHODS Based on a careful literature review on impacted maxillary canines, ten main factors were selected to assess difficulties ...

AIM Diabetic patients have more severe periodontal destruction, but periodontal therapy can improve metabolic control. Recently, interest has focused on the use of subantimicrobial dose doxycycline (SDD) as a treatment paradigm. Therefore, this study was undertaken to evaluate clinical efficacy of SDD with scaling and root planning (SRP) in chronic periodontitis patients with diabetes. METHOD...

PURPOSE Seizure detection devices (SDD) may reduce the potential for seizure-related injury, SUDEP or status epilepticus. We performed a survey of persons with epilepsy (PWE) and caregivers to assess their perspectives regarding the features and priorities that should be considered in the design of these devices. METHODS PWE/caregiver completed a survey which assessed the worry of undetected ...

The aim of this study was to determine the test-retest reliability of an automated infrared-assisted, trunk accelerometer-based gait analysis system for measuring gait parameters of healthy subjects in a hospital. Thirty-five participants (28 of them females; age range, 23-79 years) performed a 5-m walk twice using an accelerometer-based gait analysis system with infrared assist. Measurements o...

OBJECTIVES During treatment with selective decontamination of the digestive tract (SDD), four multidrug-resistant (MDR) strains, three different Escherichia coli and one Klebsiella pneumoniae, were isolated from four patients not known as carriers of such MDR strains before their admission to the intensive care unit (ICU) in the Academic Medical Center (AMC) in Amsterdam. These isolates were ex...

Transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) is one of the recommended interventions for patients with symptomatic stenosis. Same-day discharge (SDD) prevents increased hospital length stay, reduces infection rates, and improves overall health patients. SDD post-TAVR has been found to be safe feasible among carefully selected This study examines recent trend in hospitalized United States. Usin...

The paper presents the last version of a rad-hard digital chip together with a full end-ladder card prototype of the data acquisition (DAQ) chain of the ALICE SDD experiment. The chip has been designed and constructed using a rad-hard digital library provided by CERN. The end-ladder card includes all the electronic devices foreseen for the DAQ chain of ALICE SDD experiment. Moreover the card in...

The paper proposes a low-complexity concurrent constant modulus algorithm (CMA) and soft decisiondirected (SDD) scheme for fractionally spaced blind equalization of high-order quadrature amplitude modulation channels. We compare our proposed blind equalizer with the recently introduced state-of-art concurrent CMA and decision-directed (DD) scheme. The proposed CMA+SDD blind equalizer is shown t...

This paper presents a new stochastic method by integrating spline dimensional decomposition (SDD) of high-dimensional random function and isogeometric analysis (IGA) on arbitrary multipatch geometries to solve boundary-value problems from linear elasticity . The method, referred as SDD-mIGA, involves (1) analysis-suitable T-splines with significant approximating power for geometrical modeling, ...