Embedding a System on a Programmable Chip with in the constraint of available resources brings out ingenuity of a SoPC designer. The paper covers an efficient Soft processor based USB communication device driver implementation on FPGA using a 10% foot print so as to set aside the rest 90% of the logic resources of the programmable chip for other compute and control intensive tasks. Using a Soft...

Inadequate catheter securement is an underrecognized patient safety issue that contributes significantly to catheter-related complications, including dislodgment, occlusion, infiltration, and infection. Pooled data from prospective product trials at 83 hospitals compared tape to a standard peripheral intravenous (PIV) securement method with a PIV-specific catheter-stabilizing device (StatLock)....

Fig. S1 Layout of the D-DLD with peripheral vacuum pump and electronic connections. (a) The device is fabricated in PDMS and glass using replica molding. (b) Micrographs of the entrance channels and a side-wall. (c) A scale drawing of the separation device. A stream of particles injected into the device is continuously separated about the critical diameter, D c. Particles smaller than the criti...

background: multiple sclerosis (ms) is known to affect essentially the central nervous system; however, peripheral nerve involvement, as an additional cause of disability, has been recently noticed. objectives: this study was aimed to perform detailed electrodiagnostic assessments in ms patients to evaluate peripheral nervous system involvement. materials and methods: a total of eighty ms patie...

objective(s):biochemical markers are important for the timely diagnosis and follow-up of ischemic events. most of the markers have been previously studied in the context of cardiac ischemia. however, research on markers of non-cardiac events has been insufficient. therefore, we investigated the relationship between troponin and myoglobin which are commonly used markers of cardiac ischemia, in n...

introduction: neuroblastoma is the most common extracranial solid tumor in children, accounting for 8% to 10% of all childhood cancers. significantly, autologous transplantation appeared to have the largest impact on survival for the high risk subset of patients, such as those with n-myc amplified metastatic disease diagnosed after age 2 years. patients and methods: this study includes high ris...

vincristine (vcr) as a frequently used antimitotic agent which is commonly prescribed for wide spectrum of neoplasm, causes mixed sensorimotor neuropathy. several evidences show lithium could be a neuroprotective agent, therefore to assess whether a pretreatment and at subtherapeutic dose it could prevent the peripheral neuropathy produced by vcr, rats were treated with vcr 0.1mg/kg i.p. for 3 ...

peripheral blood stem cell transplantation (pbsct) is an effective treatment for hematological malignancies. mobilization of peripheral blood progenitor cells performs in different ways among transplantation centers. forceful mobilization schedules are comprised of growth factor alone, chemotherapy along with growth factor and also, a newly combination of novel agent such as plerixafor with any...

a common cause of peripheral nerve injury is trauma. the positive effect of antioxidants on the improvement of nerve regeneration has currently become a focus of attention. in this experiment, the effect of intraperitoneal administration of ubiquinone (coq10) on an acute experimentally sciatic nerve crush was studied in a rat model. forty-five male wistar rats, weighing between 160-180 g were u...