Magnetoresistance (MR) is the variation of a material’s resistivity under presence external magnetic fields. Reading heads in hard disk drives (HDDs) are most common applications MR sensors. Since discovery giant magnetoresistance (GMR) 1980s and application GMR reading 1990s, sensors lead to rapid developments HDDs’ storage capacity. Nowadays, employed storage, position sensing, current non-de...

This report investigated safety and dosing recommendations of intravenous caspofungin in hepatic insufficiency. In the single-dose study, 8 patients each with mild and moderate hepatic insufficiency received 70 mg of caspofungin. In the multiple-dose study, 8 patients with mild hepatic insufficiency and 13 healthy matched controls received 70 mg on day 1 and 50 mg daily on days 2 through 14. Ei...

BACKGROUND We report functional and structural brain indicators that may precede the onset of dementia in individuals with Down's syndrome (DS). METHODS Middle-aged adults with DS (n=19), a group known to be at high risk for dementia, were studied with (1) positron emission tomography (PET) to determine cerebral glucose metabolic rate (GMR), (2) structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to ...

Commercially available superparamagnetic nanospheres are commonly used in a wide range of biological applications, particularly in magnetically assisted separations. A new and potentially significant technology involves the use of these particles as labels in magnetoresistive assay applications. In these assays, magnetic bead labels are used like fluorescent labels except that the beads are exc...

Autonomous, flexible, and human–robot collaboration are the key features of next-generation robot. Such unstructured dynamic environments bring great challenges in online adaptive path planning. The robots have to avoid obstacles follow original task as much possible. A robust efficient planning method is required accordingly. based on Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM), Regression (GMR), Probabilist...

Learning from demonstration (LfD) is a practical method for transferring skill knowledge human demonstrator to robot. Several studies have shown the effectiveness of LfD in robotic grasping tasks improve success rate and accelerate development new tasks. A well-designed device can effectively represent motion transfer skills robots. In this paper, an improved gripper-like exoskeleton with data ...

The Galápagos Marine Reserve (GMR) has faced major governance challenges since its designation in 1998, largely due to the driving forces of immigration from the mainland; a heterogeneous population that has a mainland rather than an island identity; increasing demand for marine resources from global seafood markets; and the rapid growth of tourism. Until recently, the pressures related to thes...

The discovery of giant magnetoresistance (GMR) in magnetic multilayer films [1 -2 ] and granular solids [3 4] has triggered considerable interest in relating the spin-dependent transport phenomena from the viewpoint of both the underlying physics and their immediate application to magnetic storage and sensor technology. A number of the GMR structures have so far been studied, such as magnetic m...

The high-affinity human granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) receptor (GMR) consists of an alpha (GMRalpha) and a common beta (betac) subunit. The intracellular domain of betac has been extensively characterized and has been shown to be critical for the activation of both the JAK/STAT and MAP kinase pathways. The function of the intracellular domain of GMRalpha, however, is...