It has been suggested that spirometry should be incorporated into the routine examination of every patient, analogous to obtaining vital signs. To determine the impact of spirometry on the management of outpatients with respiratory disease, spirometry was performed on 150 consecutive patients (123 men and 27 women, mean age 57 +/- 12 years) seen in our pulmonary disease outpatient clinics. Pati...

With the trend towards Chip Multi-processors(CMP),the size of Cache increases apparently. But these caches propose larger and larger proportion in the total power consumption. This paper proposes a new mechanism that implemented in CMP to reduce energy consumption, which based on dynamically way-adaptable cache. The mechanism mainly consists of way reallocate module and dynamic power control mo...

Previously, we found that the genotype of 42 out of 198 mouse microsatellite loci, which are distributed among all chromosomes except the Y chromosome, changed from monomorphism to polymorphism (CMP) in a genetically modified inbred mouse strain. In this study, we further examined whether CMP also relates to the homologous recombination in gene knockout (KO) mouse strains. The same 42 microsate...

BACKGROUND Resistance to imatinib is an important clinical issue in the treatment of Philadelphia chromosome-positive leukemias which is being tackled by the development of new, more potent drugs, such as the dual Src/Abl tyrosine kinase inhibitors dasatinib and bosutinib and the imatinib analog nilotinib. In the current study we describe the design, synthesis and biological properties of an im...

Chip multiprocessing (CMP) and simultaneous multithreading (SMT) are two recently adopted techniques for improving the throughput of general-purpose processors by using multithreading. These techniques are likely to benefit the increasingly important real-time multimedia workloads, which are inherently multithreaded. These workloads, however, often run in an energy constrained environment. This...

Silica sol nano-abrasives with large particle are prepared and characterized by TEM, PCS and Zeta potential in this paper. Results show that the silica sol nano-abrasives about 100nm are of higher stability (Zeta potential: -65mV) and narrow distribution of particle size. And then alkali CMP slurries for tungsten containing self-made silica sol nanoabrasives are prepared and applied. CMP result...

The increased dependence of clock cycle time on interconnect delay favors chip multiprocessors (CMP) as the basis for future microprocessor designs. The tight coupling of processing units in a CMP allows new forms of parallelism to be exploited. This paper studies multiple-path execution (MPE) on a CMP design to provide speedup on unmodified sequential code by exploring different paths of a con...

Cardiomyoplasty (CMP) is a surgical therapy for dilated cardiomyopathy. In this procedure the "latissimus dorsi" is wrapped around the heart and chronically paced synchronously with ventricular systole. CMP has been performed in more than 500 cases worldwide, 42 cases in Italy, with variable degrees of success. Despite symptomatic improvement in the majority of patients surviving the procedure,...

In this paper, a neural network based uniformity controller is developed for the linear chemical–mechanical planarization (CMP) process. The control law utilizes the metrology measurements of the wafer uniformity profile and tunes the pressures of different air-bearing zones on Lam linear CMP polishers. A feedforward neural network is used to self-learn the CMP process model and a direct invers...

This work briefly presents the basic theory, the development, and a primary demonstration of a devicelevel chemical-Mechanical Polishing (CMP) CAD module. By integrating the phenomenological material removing relation such as Preston’s equation, contact mechanics, finite element analysis, with a cellular automata environment, this CMP CAD aims to predict the rounding, dishing, and erosion effec...