An evidence-based review of electrodiagnostic (EDX) techniques in the evaluation of peroneal neuropathy was conducted to determine whether these techniques are useful for diagnosis and prognostication in this disorder. A Medline search and a review of relevant sources were performed in 1999 and updated through July 2003 to identify articles describing the use of EDX in patients suspected to hav...

BODY: Gastric emptying scintigraphy (GES) using a radiolabeled solid-phase meal is currently considered the gold standard to detect gastroparesis. It is, however, performed in a variable manner at different institutions. A method to standardize gastric emptying using a low fat (EggBeaters) meal with imaging at 0, 1, 2 and 4 hours postprandially has been suggested (Tougas et al, Am J Gastro 2000...

This paper presents a detailed study on comparison of different remote monitoring systems. There are many systems for remote monitoring and control, designed as either commercial products or experimental research platforms. It is noticed that most of the research are carried out in categories such as Internet based Monitoring via Servers, GPRS modems, etc. There are different other approaches f...

The detection of reductions in effective population size (Ne) or census size (Nc) is essential for conservation. Recent developments allow wildlife researchers to obtain genetic material via non-invasive sampling techniques that may provide the large sample sizes necessary for precise estimates of Ne and Nc. Population genetic theory provides several methods to estimate Ne from allele frequency...

Indian twin drums mainly bayan and dayan (tabla) are the most important percussion instruments in India popularly used for keeping rhythm. It is a twin percussion/drum instrument of which the right hand drum is called dayan and the left hand drum is called bayan. Tabla strokes are commonly called as `bol', constitutes a series of syllables. In this study we have studied the timbre characteristi...

The identification of groups of characteristics with approximately equal frequencies of occurrence is of importance in several areas of information science. This case study describes the use of a genetic algorithm (GA) for the identification of such groups. Experiments with several text dictionaries show that the GA is able to generate groups with a high degree of equifrequency; however, the re...

The Time and Frequency Division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is developing a miniature laser-cooled Cs-fountain frequency standard. We anticipate that this device will be useful as a transportable reference for comparison of frequency standards at other laboratories. Additionally, it could be useful for measuring the gravitational clock shift at various locations...

Hand-held OCT systems that offer physicians greater freedom to access imaging sites of interest could be useful for many clinical applications. In this study, by incorporating the theoretical speckle model into the decorrelation function, we have explicitly correlated the crosscorrelation coefficient to the lateral displacement between adjacent A-scans. We used this model to develop and study a...

In recen t y ears re sea rch ers have ad d ressed them selves to th e c o n tra s t be tw een W h ite ’s an d B lack ’s view s o n h e a lth an d illness in S o u th e rn A frica (B a rk e r, 1973; C h e e th am an d G riffith s , 1982; G e lfan d 1977, 1980; G u m ed e, 1974, 1978; M a n g an y i, 1974; M e n k a za n a , 1979; M u n y a rad z i, 1975). In essence, it a p p e a rs th a t B lac...

A novel circuit switched swizzle network called XRAM is presented. XRAM uses an SRAM-based approach producing a compact footprint that scales well with network dimensions while supporting all permutations and multicasts. Capable of storing multiple shuffle configurations and aided by a novel sense-amp for robust bit-line evaluation, a 128×128 XRAM fabricated in 65nm achieves a bandwidth exceedi...