Although it is generally accepted that blood has never been safer than today, transfusion-associated side effects, particularly infective, still occur. Unlike screening strategies, pathogen reduction technologies offer a new approach to increase blood safety by actively/directly targeting possible, also emerging pathogens or donor leukocytes. Advanced technologies for cellular blood products li...

ABSTRACT: A phase picking algorithm has been developed for P-wave arrival detection and picking on a 3-component broadband seismogram. The algorithm is based on Wavelet Transform, Akaike Information Criteria (AIC) picker and voting mechanism. The mathematical functions have been used to cut up data into different frequency components and each component with a resolution matched to its scale is ...

A monolithically integrated mode-locked laser diode system is presented. Pairs of 7.6 ps pulses are generated at 1550 nm. An integrated Mach-Zehnder modulator pulse-picker allows electronically tunable repetition rates from 14 GHz to 219 MHz.

Proximal and semi-proximal spaces are defined with the help of a game played on uniform spaces. Proximal spaces are where the entourage-picker has a winning strategy, and semi-proximal spaces are where the opponent, the point-picker, does not have a winning strategy. The class of proximal spaces is closed under Σ-products and closed subspaces. In this paper it is shown that product of two semi-...