BACKGROUND A meta-analysis was conducted to assess the safety and efficacy of biodegradable polymer drug-eluting stents (BP-DESs). METHODS PubMed, Science Direct, China National Knowledge Infrastructure, and Chongqing VIP databases were searched for randomized controlled trials comparing the safety and efficacy of BP-DESs versus durable polymer drug-eluting stents (DP-DESs). Efficacy included...

By an integer relation algorithm, we mean a practical computational scheme that can recover the vector of integers ai, if it exists, or can produce bounds within which no integer relation exists. As we will see in the examples below, an integer relation algorithm can be used to recognize a computed constant in terms of a formula involving known constants, or to discover an underlying relation b...

The ubiquitin-proteasome pathway is the principal mechanism for the degradation of short-lived proteins in eukaryotic cells. Here we examine the possibility that ubiquitin-proteasome is involved in regulating the levels of Bcl-2, which is abundantly expressed in M-07e cells, a granulocyte/macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF)-dependent human leukaemic cell line. Apoptosis in M-07e cells...

In this paper we generalize the method of Wildanger for nding small solutions to unit equations to the case of S-unit equations. The method uses a minor generalization of the LLL based techniques used to reduce the bounds derived from transcendence theory, followed by an enumeration strategy based on the Fincke-Pohst algorithm. The method used reduces the computing time needed from MIPS years d...

Photoluminescent strips forming a Low Location Lighting (LLL) system are the primary method for marking escape routes on passenger ships. The LLL can be built as self-luminous (powered by electricity) or made series of photoluminescent materials, which glow and indicate route after loss basic emergency lighting. To ensure correct visual guidance, these must installed at specific locations in pa...

The credit on reduction theory goes back to the work of Lagrange, Gauss, Hermite, Korkin, Zolotarev, and Minkowski. Modern reduction theory is voluminous and includes the work of A. Lenstra, H. Lenstra and L. Lovasz who created the well known LLL algorithm, and many other researchers such as L. Babai and C. P. Schnorr who created significant new variants of basis reduction algorithms. In this p...

The reflectance of porous silicon carbide ~PSC! thin films on SiC substrates is measured in the infrared reststrahlen region by Fourier transform infrared reflectance spectroscopy and is compared to simulated spectra based on phenomenological and Bergman statistical effective-medium dielectric functions. The phenomenological models evaluated include the Bruggeman, cavityand sphere-Maxwell-Garne...

Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems are playing an important role in the recent wireless communication. The complexity of the different systems models challenge different researches to get a good complexity to performance balance. Lattices Reduction Techniques and Lenstra-Lenstra-Lovàsz (LLL) algorithm bring more resources to investigate and can contribute to the complexity reduction ...