OBJECTIVE Posttraumatic cerebral infarction (CI) is a well-known complication of traumatic brain injury (TBI). However, the causation and apportionment of trauma in patients with CI after TBI is not easy. There is a scoring method, so-called trauma apportionment score (TAS) for CI, consisted with the age, the interval, and the severity of the TBI. We evaluated the reliability of this score. M...

The molecular distinctions between mortality stages 1 (M1; senescence) and 2 (M2; crisis) of human replicative aging are ill defined. We demonstrate a qualitative difference between telomeric end associations at M1 and the end fusions that produce dicentric chromosomes and breakage-fusion cycles. Knockdown of ligase IV sufficient to completely inhibit radiation-induced dicentric chromosome form...

In this paper, we derive expressions for exact, approximate, and asymptotic symbol error rate (SER) of transmit antenna selection with maximal ratio combining (TAS/MRC) multiple input multiple output (MIMO) systems for several modulation schemes. We have assumed independent and identically distributed h ¡ m fading channels. We use a moment generating function (MGF) based approach to derive the ...

OBJECTIVES To quantify the changes seen in the endorectal magnetic resonance imaging (erMRI)-defined prostate volume, predominant tumor volume, and secondary tumor volume during neoadjuvant total androgen suppression (TAS). METHODS Between July 1997 and April 2001, 152 consecutive patients with clinical Stage T1b-T3cNXM0 prostate cancer were treated with 6 months of TAS and external beam radi...

1 Oceans and Atmosphere (CSIRO), Hobart, TAS, Australia, 2 Tasmanian School of Business and Economics, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia, 3 Centre for Marine Socioecology, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia, 4 Faculty of Agriculture, University of Pattimura, Ambon, Indonesia, 5 Indonesia Project, Arndt-Corden Department of Economics, Crawford School of Public Policy, Au...

TAS-103, a new anticancer drug, induces DNA cleavage by inhibiting the activities of topoisomerases I and II. We investigated the mechanism of TAS-103-induced apoptosis in human cell lines. Pulsed field gel electrophoresis revealed that in the leukemia cell line HL-60 and the H(2)O(2)-resistant subclone, HP100, TAS-103 induced DNA cleavage to form 1-2-Mb fragments at 1 h to a similar extent, in...

OBJECTIVE Type 1 diabetes is associated with a high risk of coronary heart disease (CHD), despite the absence of dyslipidemia. Oxidative modification may render LDLs more atherogenic. We aimed to assess antioxidant status in type 1 diabetes and its association with coronary artery calcification (CAC). RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Total antioxidant status (TAS) of serum was measured using the T...

Teaching Assistants (TAs) play an important role in supporting research-based instructional environments, yet the connection between TAs' pedagogical beliefs and instructional practices is not well understood. We build upon a broad foundation of research on the nature of pedagogical content knowledge to develop an analytic framework for characterizing how physics TAs both describe and enact the...

In this correspondence we presents the performance analysis of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) technique incorporating maximal-ratio combining with transmit antenna selection (MRC/TAS) in frequency-flat Rayleigh fading channels. The expression of probability density function (pdf) for MRC/TAS (Nt , 1; Nr) scheme has been derived. The probability of outage is examined first. Further by the...

IJSER © 2017 http://www.ijser.org Abstract—In this paper, we analyze the combined performance of joint transmit and receive antenna selection (JTRAS), transmit antenna selection/maximum ratio combining (TAS/MRC) and transmit antenna selection/receiver antenna selection (TAS/RAS) approach in the context of physical layer security (PLS) in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wiretap channels. W...