Based on amplify-and-forward network coding (AFNC) protocol, the outage probability and ergodic capacity of two-way network coding opportunistic relaying (TWOR-AFNC) systems are investigated as well as the corresponding closed-form solutions. For the TWOR-AFNC systems, it is investigated under two scenarios, namely, the TWOR-AFNC systems without direct link (TWOR-AFNC-Nodir) and the TWOR-AFNC s...

In the Low Countries, interest in information retrieval, the discipline that is mainly concerned with identifying information in document or multimedia collections, has been modest but steady throughout the years. In 2000, this led to the first Dutch-Belgian Information Retrieval Workshop (DIR) at the University of Maastricht (the Netherlands). Two years later, the third edition of DIR shows th...

Hamburg (humannews) In der US-Serie „Lie to me“ erkennt Tim Roth, alias Dr. Carl Lightman, mit Hilfe der Wahrnehmungsforschung sofort ob jemand lügt. In der realen Welt geht Managementberaterin Cilly Holle noch einen Schritt weiter: Als Psycho-Physiognomik-Expertin erkennt sie auf den ersten Blick die Stärken und Schwächen ihres Gegenübers, sieht, welche Paare zusammenpassen, wem man wie am bes...

The overall objective of this study is to non-invasively image and assess tumor targeting and retention of directly labeled T-lymphocytes following their adoptive transfer in mice. T-lymphocytes obtained from draining lymph nodes of 4T1 (murine breast cancer cell) sensitized BALB/C mice were activated in-vitro with Bryostatin/Ionomycin for 18 hours, and were grown in the presence of Interleukin...

Purpose To perform lung image registration for reducing misregistration artifacts on three-dimensional (3D) temporal subtraction of chest computed tomography (CT) images, in order to enhance temporal changes in lung lesions and evaluate these changes after deformable image registration (DIR). Methods In 10 cases, mutual information (MI) lung mask affine mapping combined with cross-correlation...

In recent years one of the areas of interest in radiotherapy has been adaptive radiation therapy (ART), with the most efficient way of performing ART being the use of deformable image registration (DIR). In this paper we use the distances between points of interest (POIs) in the computed tomography (CT) and the cone beam computed tomography (CBCT) acquisition images and the inverse consistence ...

OBJECTIVE Determine the results of 1-year Developmental, Individual-Difference, Relationship-Based (DIR)/Floortime parent training in developmental stimulation of children with autistic spectrum disorder (ASD). MATERIAL AND METHOD Thirty-four, two to six years old children with ASD participated. Parents were encouraged to deliver 1:1 interaction according to their child's developmental level,...

The optimal choice of routing and wavelength assignment (RWA) for the working and protection path–pair of the newly generated demand request is often a complex problem in reliable wavelength-division-multiplexed (WDM) networks subject to dynamic traffic. The challenge is twofold: how to provide the required reliability level without over-reserving network resources and how to find a good soluti...

OBJECTIVE To analyze the maternal mortality in the ABC Region, comparing indicators from the Committee for the Study of Maternal Mortality in the Great ABC Region (CEMM) of the II Regional Health Center of Santo Andre (DIR II), and the State Data Analysis System Foundation (SEADE). METHODS This is a cross sectional study. The information was obtained from the database of CEMM DIR II - Santo A...

In a two-step strategy, an intraperitoneal (IP) injection of poly(ethylene glycol)-block-poly(ε-caprolactone) (PEG-b-PCL) micelles containing paclitaxel (PTX), cyclopamine (CYP), and gossypol (GSP) at 30, 30, and 30 mg/kg, respectively, debulked tumor tissues by 1.3-fold, based on loss of bioluminescence with <10% body weight change, and induced apoptosis in peritoneal tumors when used as neoad...