Heatwaves (HWs) are one of the “natural” hazards with the greatest impact worldwide in terms of mortality and economic losses, and their effects may be exacerbated in large urban areas. For these reasons, more detailed analyses of urban HW trends represent a priority that cannot be neglected. In this study, HW trends were investigated during the warmest period of the year (May–September) by usi...

Project-oriented problem-based learning (POPBL) is one instructional methodology that has been widely applied in many other Teaching and Learning (T&L) activities. POPBL incorporates the development of students’ personal skills and also promotes creativity in any given T&L environment. In this work, a POPBL that would be implemented in Introduction to Programming course taught at Universiti...

When designing interior lighting effects, it is desirable to compare a variety of lighting designs involving different lighting devices and directions of light. It is, however, time-consuming to generate images with many different lighting parameters, taking interreflection into account, because all luminances must be calculated and recalculated. This makes it difficult to design lighting effec...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Both endovascular and surgical options are available for treatment of unruptured cerebral aneurysms. We conducted a study to determine the costs versus Medicare reimbursement for hospitalization of these patients, which is important information for understanding the economic impact of these patients on hospitals. MATERIALS AND METHODS Using the NIS, we identified hospit...

We investigate iterative receive algorithms for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) transmission affected by clipping at the transmit power amplifier (PA). One algorithm aims at minimizing the Euclidean distance to the received sequence, while the other reconstructs the clipping noise. Both methods significantly reduce the BER compared to simple zero forcing, even for severe clipp...

BACKGROUND Unruptured saccular intracranial aneurysm (SIA) is associated with an increased prevalence of migraine, but it is unclear whether this is altered by clipping of the aneurysm. The aim of our study was to determine whether remission rate of migraine and other recurrent headaches was greater in patients with SIA after clipping than in controls. METHODS We prospectively studied 87 SIA ...

Peak to Average Power Ratio (PAPR) is one of most detrimental aspects in any wireless communication system using multicarrier modulation technique like OFDM, which cause power degradation and spectral spreading. Due to the simplest way for PAPR reduction, clipping technique has been proposed and seems to be promising for use in commercial system. In this paper, we mainly focus on Amplitude clip...

A 45-year-old woman presented with kissing aneurysms located at the junctions of the internal carotid artery and the duplicate anterior choroidal arteries manifesting as acute subarachnoid hemorrhage. The aneurysms were clipped during temporary occlusion of the internal carotid artery. Surgery for kissing aneurysms requires special consideration including analysis of the anatomical relationship...

Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing with Offset Quadrature Amplitude Modulation (OFDM/OQAM) signal has high peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) problem. It not only affects the distortion in High Power Amplifier (HPA) but also results bit error (BER) degradation. In this paper an improved algorithm based on Clipping and Compressed Sensing (CS) is proposed. The transmitter uses clipping to...

In this issue of JMB, Rajendar and Lucius report a study of themechanism of polypeptide translocation catalyzed by the Escherichia coli ClpA enzyme—the motor component of the ATP-dependent protease, ClpAP. ATP-dependent proteases play important roles in protein turnover and share a common architecture across organisms. ClpAP is composed of the hexameric AAA+ motor protein ClpA and the tetradeca...