Abstract Introduction The hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) and sympathetic-adrenal-medullary (SAM) axes activate in response to stressors. Real-world exposure stressors often co-occurs with total sleep deprivation (TSD). SAM a single stressor appears unchanged by TSD, but salivary alpha-amylase (sAA) has shown that TSD blunts the repeated exposure. Using cortisol concentration (SCC), we inv...

In this paper, the design, fabrication and characterization of PMUTs for medical applications are discussed. Scandium (20% Sc/(Sc $+$ Al)) doped AlN is used as piezoelectric material. The process with a patterned layer developed. Sing...

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GENETIC DIVERSITY AND HISTO-BLOOD GROUP ANTIGEN 1 INTERACTIONS OF RHESUS ENTERIC CALICIVIRUSES 2 Tibor Farkas 1,2* , Robert W. Cross 4 , Edwin Hargitt III 1 , Nicholas W. Lerche 5 , Ardythe L. 3 Morrow 1,2 and Karol Sestak 3,4 4 5 Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center 1 , University of Cincinnati College of 6 Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio 2 , Tulane National Primate Research Center, Coving...

The paper introduces an approach to privacy enhancing technologies that sees privacy not merely as an individual right, but as a public good. This understanding of privacy has recently gained ground in the debate on appropriate legal protection for privacy in an online environment. The jurisprudential idea that privacy is a public good and prerequisite for a functioning democracy also entails t...