BACKGROUND Bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome (BOS) with small-airway pathology and obstructive pulmonary physiology may not be the only form of chronic lung allograft dysfunction (CLAD) after lung transplantation. Characteristics of a form of CLAD consisting of restrictive functional changes involving peripheral lung pathology were investigated. METHODS Patients who received bilateral lung tr...

OBJECTIVES Living-donor lobar lung transplantation (LDLLT) has been established as a life-saving procedure for critically ill patients who cannot wait for cadaveric lung transplantation. Chronic lung allograft dysfunction (CLAD) is the main cause of late morbidity and mortality in lung transplantation. Studies on CLAD in cadaveric lung transplantation have been extensively reported, but few rep...

Purpose Although many patients with cerebral large-artery disease (CLAD) show impaired cognitive performance, the risk factors remain unclear in this population. The objective of this study was to evaluate cognitive impairment and its risk factors in patients with CLAD. Methods We recruited non-demented patients with CLAD from our hospital. CLAD was defined as occlusion or stenosis of over 50...

Continuous loop averaging deconvolution (CLAD) is one of the proven methods for recovering transient auditory evoked potentials (AEPs) in rapid stimulation paradigms, which requires an elaborated stimulus sequence design to attenuate impacts from noise in data. The present study aimed to develop a new metric in gauging a CLAD sequence in terms of noise gain factor (NGF), which has been proposed...

Friction Surfacing Cladding (FSC) is a recently developed, solid-state process to deposit thin metallic clad layers on a substrate. The process employs a hollow rotating tool containing the clad material. The tool is moved along a predefined trajectory at a given distance above the substrate surface while the clad material is pressed out and deposited on the substrate surface beneath the tool. ...

Wave chaos is a concept which has already proved its practical usefulness in design of double-clad fibers for cladding-pumped fiber lasers and fiber amplifiers. In general, classically chaotic geometries will favor strong pump absorption and we address the extent of chaotic wave dynamics in typical air-clad geometries. While air-clad structures supporting sup-wavelength convex air-glass interfa...

We describe CLAD, an implemented advisor system in the domain of clinical medicine. CLAD assists a human physician in making decisions about diagnosing and treating patients. CLAD monitors the transcript of an ongoing dialog between the physician and a patient, builds and augments a mental model of the patient and suggests courses of action to the physician. CLAD can also explain its decisions ...

Progress in the design, fabrication and characterization of electrically injected photonic-crystal quantum-dot microcavity light sources is described. In the devices investigated in this study, the carriers are injected directly into the photonic crystal microcavity, avoiding the surface state recombination in the photonic crystal pattern. A novel and robust air-bridge contact technology is dem...

The feasibility and parameters optimization of AA5183 aluminum cladding on AISI 1018 steel by electro spark microwelding (ESM) and the corrosion resistance of the clad plate were investigated. The optimum conditions were found as 15 A, 10%, 800 Hz and 2500 rpm for P, D, F and R factors, respectively. Confirmation test under optimum conditions showed that the model can be effectively used to pre...

A fiber-based multimodal imaging system that combines multiphoton microscopy (MPM) with Fourier domain optical coherence microscopy (OCM) is reported. The system uses a fiber-based femtosecond laser, a fiber coupler, and a double-clad fiber (DCF) device. The fiber laser has a central wavelength of 1.04 μm and bandwidth of 29 nm. Longer excitation wavelength is used to increase penetration depth...