− Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) have been widely used in embedded systems to provide multi-point control. We use Asynchronous communication mechanisms (ACMs) to provide a means to enable ANN neurons to be activated only when necessary, so that systems' energy consumption can be greatly reduced.

After injury, inflammation, or degeneration, articular cartilage has limited self-repair ability. We aimed to explore the feasibility of repair of articular cartilage defects with tissue-engineered cartilage constructed by acellular cartilage matrices (ACMs) seeded with adipose-derived stem cells (ADSCs). The ADSCs were isolated from 3-month-old New Zealand albino rabbit by using collagenase an...

Practical examples of systems with heterogeneous timing requirements include the embedded real-time control and decisionmaking systems used in aerospace, automotive, and telecommunication applications. It is attractive to construct such systems as digital networks with inherent heterogeneous timing conditions. In these hets (short for heterogeneously timed nets), computational elements interact...

In Italy, use and production of asbestos asbestos-containing materials (ACMs) were banned in 1992, however, the risk exposure to still exists, because most ACMs are located industrial public buildings. A total 111 Italian buildings with friable non-friable surveyed; 500 air samples collected areas where contamination might have occurred. Airborne fiber concentration calculated from was averaged...

1 Abstract Data freshness properties of asynchronous communication mechanisms (ACMs) are related to the relative timing of reader and writer statements. When a hardware implementation of an ACM is tested at the highest operating speed, such relative timing is difficult to measure if the observing hardware is not constructed of faster technology than the ACM. Here an indirect method is proposed ...

INTRODUCTION Cell-seeded natural scaffolds derived from acellular matrices (ACMs) hold great promise for regenerating large soft-tissue organs. The ACM contains site-preferred structural and functional molecules, and ACM-derived degradation products play important roles in tissue remodeling. MRI assessment has demonstrated sensitivity to tissue microstructure and composition, but specificity re...

Modern society is living at a time of revolutionary changes in all areas human life. For example, the field industrial manufacturing has greatly influenced role beings during past 30 years. systems are phase transition, accordance with concept fourth revolution (Industry 4.0). A new paradigm based on principles Industry 4.0 presented by Smart Manufacturing Systems (SMS). basic building block SM...

Aerial continuum manipulation systems (ACMSs) were newly introduced by integrating a robot (CR) into an aerial vehicle to address few issues of conventional such as safety, dexterity, flexibility and compatibility with objects. Despite the earlier work on decoupled dynamic modeling ACMSs, their coupled still remains intact. Nonlinearity complexity CR make it difficult design ACMS model suitable...

6- mercaptopurine (6-mp) is widely used in clinic as an immunosuppressive for treatment of acute lymphocytic leukemia, crohn's disease, and ulcerative colitis with documented unpredictable hepatotoxicity. the potential molecular cytotoxic mechanisms of 6-mp against isolated rat hepatocytes were searched in this study using “accelerated cytotoxicity mechanism screening (acms)” techniques. t...

Image segmentation is a fundamental task in image analysis responsible for partitioning an image into multiple sub-regions based on a desired feature. Active contour models (ACMs) have been widely used as attractive image segmentation methods because they always can achieve sub-pixel accuracy, provide closed and smooth contours/surfaces and can also be treated as automatic segmentation while th...