Matching filter (MF)-free digital multiplexed (DFM) single sideband (SSB) OFDM intensity modulation and direct detection (IMDD) dual-channel transmissions of 51.25Gbit/s over 25km SSMFs are experimentally demonstrated. It is shown that both transmission system impairments characteristic variations can only lead to <1dB performance degradations. Compared with the MF-free DFM-based double (DSB) t...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the performance of the National Health Service (NHS) Health Check in identifying people at high risk of having or developing type 2 diabetes. DESIGN Retrospective evaluation of the performance of the NHS Health Check diabetes filter (based on ethnicity, body mass index and blood pressure) in identifying people at risk for type 2 diabetes (glycated haemoglobin (HbA1c) ≥42...

Two inversion formulas for enumerating words in the free monoid by θ-adjacencies are applied in counting pairs of permutations by various statistics. The generating functions obtained involve refinements of bibasic Bessel functions. We further extend the results to finite sequences of permutations. ∗This work is partially supported by EC grant CHRX-CT93-0400 and PRC Maths-Info †Financial suppor...

In this paper we have proposed a highly tunable spectrum sliced photonic microwave band pass transversal filter for microwave and millimeterwave frequency applications. This filter configuration is based on two cascaded Fabry-Perot filters with different free spectral range and a broadband optical source. The high tunability of the filter is achieved by carefully choosing free spectral range of...

Safe domestic potable water supplies are urgently needed to reduce childhood diarrheal disease. In periurban neighborhoods in Cochabamba, Bolivia, we conducted a cluster randomized controlled trial to evaluate the efficacy of a household-level hollow fiber filter and/or behavior change communication (BCC) on water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) to reduce the diarrheal disease in children less ...

Ceramic water filters have been identified as one of the most promising and accessible technologies for treating water at the household level. In a six-month trial, water filters were distributed randomly to half of the 50 participating households in a rural community in Bolivia; the remaining households continued to use customary water handling practices and served as controls. In four rounds ...

The notion of union-soft filters of a CI-algebra is introduced, and related properties are investigated. Characterization of a union-soft filter is discussed, and conditions for a soft set to be a union-soft filter are provided. New union-soft filter from old one is established. Mathematics Subject Classification: 06F35, 03G25, 06D72

Károly Mirnics,1,2* Zeljka Korade,3* Dominique Arion,1 Orly Lazarov,4 Travis Unger,1 Melissa Macioce,1 Michael Sabatini,1,2 David Terrano,4 Katherine C. Douglass,1 Nina F. Schor,3 and Sangram S. Sisodia4 Departments of 1Psychiatry, 2Neurobiology, and 3Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15261, and 4Center for Molecular Neurobiology, University of Ch...

This paper presents TrAVis (Tracking Data Analysis and Visualization Tools), a Web-based system, implemented to assist the participants in the learning process in analyzing the tracking data of ComputerMediated Communication activities. While most of the existing systems in the same genre are exclusively dedicated to the teachers and only a few are accessible by students, TrAVis is objectively ...

Hedgehog (Hh) proteins signal by inhibiting the proteolytic processing of Ci/Gli family transcription factors and by increasing Ci/Gli-specific activity. When Hh is absent, phosphorylation of Ci/Gli triggers binding to SCF ubiquitin ligase complexes and consequent proteolysis. Here we show that multiple successively phosphorylated CK1 sites on Ci create an atypical extended binding site for the...