RATIONALE The mechanism of functional restoration by stem cell therapy remains poorly understood. Novel manganese-enhanced MRI and bioluminescence reporter gene imaging were applied to follow myocardial viability and cell engraftment, respectively. Human-placenta-derived amniotic mesenchymal stem cells (AMCs) demonstrate unique immunoregulatory and precardiac properties. In this study, the rest...

the effects of essential oils (eos) of oregano and nutmeg with and without commercial emulsifier/stabilizer compound (e/s) on the microbial quality of ready-to-cook barbecued chicken were evaluated. barbecued chicken was traditionally prepared. 3 μl/g and 10 mg/g of eos and/or e/s were then added to the barbecued chicken, respectively. the samples were stored at 3°c for 144 h, 8 and 20ºc for 72...

We propose a neural network (NN)-based adaptive modulation and coding (AMC) for link adaptation in MIMO-OFDM systems. The AMC optimizes the best modulation and coding scheme (MCS) under a packet error rate (PER) constraint. In our approach, a NN with a multilayer perceptron (MLP) structure is applied for the AMC and its performance is compared with the k-nearest neighbor (k-NN) algorithm under ...

In a cooperative relay network, a relay node (R) facilitates data transmission to the destination node (D), when the latter is unable to decode the source node (S) data correctly. This paper considers such a system model and presents a cross-layer approach to jointly design adaptive modulation and coding (AMC) at the physical layer and cooperative truncated automatic repeat request (ARQ) protoc...

Disaster preparedness and disaster response should be a capability of all academic health centers. The authors explore the potential role and impact of academic medical centers (AMC)s in disaster response. The National Disaster Medical System and the evolution of disaster medical assistance teams (DMAT) are described, and the experience at one AMC with DMAT is reviewed. The recent deployment of...

Osmotic drug delivery mechanism is well known in the field of oral controlled release systems. The release of drug from the osmotic drug delivery devices is based on the phenomenon of osmosis. An useful technology developed for osmotic delivery of drug is asymmetric membrane capsule (AMC), which is an economic and effective drug delivery device as compared to other existing technique of osmotic...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To test the effects of an art-making class (AMC) on reducing anxiety and stress among family caregivers of patients with cancer. DESIGN A pretest and post-test quasi-experimental design. SETTING A residential care facility near tertiary treatment centers in the southeastern United States. SAMPLE The convenience sample of 69 family caregivers was aged 18-81 years (X = 48...

PURPOSE Arthrogryposis multiplex congenita (AMC) is a rare syndrome with multiple joint contractures. It is commonly believed that bilaterally dislocated hips associated with joint contractures should not be reduced, because movement is satisfactory, while open reduction leads to poor results. This report presents our experience with surgical management of bilateral dislocation of hips in child...

BACKGROUND There is conclusive evidence from observational data and three randomized controlled trials that circumcised men have a significantly lower risk of becoming infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The aim of this study was to systematically review economic evaluations on adult male circumcision (AMC) for prevention of heterosexual acquisition of HIV in men. METHODS AN...

Human neuroimaging studies indicate that the anterior midcingulate cortex (AMC) and the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) play important roles in the expression and extinction of fear, respectively. Electrophysiological rodent studies further indicate that oscillatory neuronal activity in homolog regions (i.e., prelimbic and infralimbic cortices) changes during fear expression and fear ext...