introduction: allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (hsct) has been reported to be a successful curative treatment in aml patients. myeloablative conditioning (mac) is used more frequent as a preparing regimen. this study attempts to compare the outcome of patients who has received mac and reduced- intensity conditioning (ric). methods: totally, 618 patients with aml underwent hsct...

extensive researches on wireless sensor networks (wsns) have been performed and many techniques have been developed for the data link (mac) layer. most of them assume single-channel mac protocols. in the usual dense deployment of the sensor networks, single-channel mac protocols may be deficient because of radio collisions and limited bandwidth. hence, using multiple channels can significantly ...

Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) is a wireless sensor technology used to connect small nodes with sensing abilities to collect necessary information. IEEE 802.15.4 is commonly adopted for WBAN because of its low duty cycle and low power operation. WBAN data is communicated in a superframe structure defined by IEEE 802.15.4 beacon enabled mode. Superframe structure predominantly based on beacon...

OBJECTIVE Glucose is an essential fuel in the energy metabolism and synthesis pathways of all mammalian cells. In lactating animals, glucose is the major precursor for lactose and is a substrate for the synthesis of milk proteins and fat in mammary secretory (alveolar) epithelial cells. However, clear utilization of glucose in mammary cells during lactogenesis is still unknown, due to the lack ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES EEG-derived bispectral index (BIS), has been indicated as a major substrate for measuring hypnotic effects of anesthetic drugs. However, there are only limited data on the use of EEG in anesthetized children. This study aimed at evaluating changes in BIS, SEF95%, relative delta band frequency amplitude (d%) and suppression rate (SR) in children, correlating these chang...

The radiometric BACTEC 460-TB methodology has filled an increased need in the screening of a wide range of antimicrobial agents against Mycobacterium avium (MAC) isolates on a patient-to-patient basis. In this context, a multicenter study involving eight test sites across France was performed to determine the MICs of 10 antimicrobial agents for MAC organisms. The aim of the investigation was to...