Although Hodgkin's disease is highly responsive to treatments that cause apoptosis, it remains resistant to the physiological mechanisms intended to cause cell death. Presumably, the Reed-Sternberg cell defies endogenous apoptosis, persists, accumulates, and manifests the malignant disorder seen clinically. The Reed-Sternberg cell expresses several members of the tumor necrosis factor receptor ...

The accordion reed is an example of a blown-closed free reed. Unlike most oscillating valves in wind musical instruments, self-sustained oscillations occur without acoustic coupling. Flow visualizations and measurements in water show that the flow can be supposed incompressible and potential. A model is developed and the solution is calculated in the time domain. The excitation force is found t...

To the Editor: On July 27, 2011, I attended the casing of the colors of Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, DC, and on August 27, the last patient was transferred from that closing facility to the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. The new, integrated facility became known as the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on September 15.1 As one who spent about o...

Reed is a widespread-growing, inexpensive, and readily available lignocellulosic material source in northeast China. The objective of this study is to evaluate the liquid hot water (LHW) pretreatment efficiency of reed based on the enzymatic digestibility and ethanol fermentability of water-insoluble solids (WISs) from reed after the LHW pretreatment. Several variables in the LHW pretreatment a...

Gopalan, Klivans, and Zuckerman proposed a listdecoding algorithm for Reed-Muller codes. Their algorithm works up to a given list-decoding radius. Dumer, Kabatiansky, and Tavernier improved the complexity of the algorithm for binary Reed-Muller codes by using the well-known Plotkin construction. In this study, we propose a list-decoding algorithm for non-binary Reed-Muller codes as a generaliza...

In previous work, the authors presented a generalized parametric model of a pressure controlled valve, allowing the user to design a continuum of reed configurations, including “blown open”, “blown closed” and the “swinging door”. Though the generalized reed model behaved as expected, the quality of the produced sound was somewhat limited, likely due to the dependence of reed oscillation on the...

In Reed-Solomon codes and all other maximum distance separable codes, there is an intrinsic relationship between the size of the symbols in a codeword and the length of the codeword. Increasing the number of symbols in a codeword to improve the efficiency of the coding system thus requires using a larger set of symbols. However, long Reed-Solomon codes are difficult to implement and many commun...

In this paper we present a modification of Reed-Solomon codes that beats the GuruwamiSudan 1− √ R decoding radius of Reed-Solomon codes at low rates R. The idea is to choose Reed-Solomon codes U and V with appropriate rates in a (U | U + V ) construction and to decode them with the Koetter-Vardy soft information decoder. We suggest to use a slightly more general version of these codes (but whic...

Interleaved Reed–Solomon codes are applied in numerous data processing, data transmission, and data storage systems. They are generated by interleaving several codewords of ordinary Reed–Solomon codes. Usually, these codewords are decoded independently by classical algebraic decoding methods. However, by collaborative algebraic decoding approaches, such interleaved schemes allow the correction ...

The enzymatic hydrolysis and fermentation of reed canary grass, harvested in the spring or autumn, and barley straw were studied. Steam pretreated materials were efficiently hydrolysed by commercial enzymes with a dosage of 10-20FPU/g d.m. Reed canary grass harvested in the spring was hydrolysed more efficiently than the autumn-harvested reed canary grass. Additional β-glucosidase improved the ...