BACKGROUND There is a recognized need for a national unified registry to track presenting features, care, and outcomes for patients with acute myocardial infarction. To address this need, the American Heart Association's Get With the Guidelines-Coronary Artery Disease program joined the Acute Coronary Treatment and Intervention Outcomes Network (ACTION) Registry to create the National Cardiovas...

In this work we aim to exploit one of the most studied defect color centers in diamond , the negatively charged nitrogen vacancy (NV−) color center, a three level system which emits a single photon at a wavelength of 637nm providing a possible deterministic single photon emitter very useful for quantum computing applications. Moreover the possibility of placing aNV−in a photonic crystal cavity ...

The Software Engineering Laboratory has been monitoring software development at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center since 1976. This report describes the data collection activities of the Laboratory and some of the difficulties of obtaining reliable data. In addition, the application of this data collection process to a current prototyping experiment is reviewed.

To solve problems in detecting the origin of agricultural products, this paper brings about an embedded data-based terminal, applies middleware thinking, and provides reusable long-range two-way data exchange module between business equipment and data acquisition systems. The system is constructed by data collection node and data center nodes. Data collection nodes taking embedded data terminal...

Testing aerosol properties in MODIS (MOD04/MYD04) Collection 4 and 5 using airborne sunphotometer observations in INTEX-B/MILAGRO J. Redemann, Q. Zhang, J. Livingston, P. Russell, Y. Shinozuka, A. Clarke, R. Johnson, and R. Levy Bay Area Environmental Research Institute, Sonoma, CA, USA SRI International, Menlo Park, CA, USA NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA ORAU/ NASA Ames Rese...

We propose a novel source of non-classical light consisting of plasmonic aperture with single-crystal diamond containing a single Nitrogen-Vacancy (NV) color center. Theoretical calculations of optimal structures show that these devices can simultaneously enhance optical pumping by a factor of 7, spontaneous emission rates by Fp~50 (Purcell factor), and offer collection efficiencies up to 40%. ...

DONOR PLASMAPHERESIS USING AUTOMATED MEMBRANE DEVICES Shigeki Yokoyama, Retsuji Yamanaka, Manabu Oki and Takemitsu Hosoi Kyoto Red Cross Blood Center Automated plasmapheresis using four different membrane devices (NDP-100 and 200, Nipro; APC-2000, Asahi Medical; Autopheresis-C, Baxter) was carried out on 396 healthy volunteer donors. The purpose of this study was to verify donor safety, accepta...