We previously found an association between the recurrence and onset of Graves ̓thyrotoxicosis and increased thyrotropin (TSH) receptor antibody titers following attacks of allergic rhinitis [13]. The TSH receptor antibody of Graves ̓disease belongs to the immunoglobulin (Ig) G1 subclass [4]. Therefore, the present study was performed to examine the effect of allergen on the release of interleukin...

Case Material Nine patients with pruritus following stroke have been seen at Duke University Medical Center Rehabilitation Unit (table 1). Six were male and three female. Four were transferred from another facility and five had been in our hospital since occurrence of the stroke. During rehabilitation, from 3-6 weeks post stroke, these patients developed excoriations of the involved side. Their...

Fig. 6: The values for throughput and delay presented here are normalized to 100% of a single superframe. Based on its demand a player can react on the opponents behavior and adapt its scheduling of transmission opportunities to maximize its payoff .. Fig. 8: Only neighbouring stations are in reception range. Since station 1 and station 4 have only one neighbour, it is more likely for them to g...

We describe 2 patients with intracranial hemorrhage after ingestion of diet pills containing phenylpropanolamine (PPA) in combination with caffeine. The first patient had bilateral simultaneous intracerebral hemorrhages, and the second had a subarachnoid hemorrhage. PPA is widely used most often without prescription and causes intracranial hemorrhage more often than has been realized. The mecha...

As the demand for ever higher throughput short-range optical links is growing, research and industry has shown increased interest in multilevel modulation formats, such as the four leveled pulse amplitude modulation, referred to as 4-PAM. As on-off keying persists to be the choice for low latency applications, such as high performance computing, datacenter operators see 4-PAM as the next format...

In this letter, we consider the physical-layer security (PLS) in full-duplex (FD) multiuser multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) short-packet communications, where a base station (BS) transmits precoded signals for secure downlink multicast while receiving from uplink users. To quantify PLS performance worst-case scenario, possible maximum wiretapping capability of multi-antenna eavesdropper. ...