BACKGROUND Luteolin (LUT), a kind of flavonoid which is extracted from a variety of diets, has been reported to convey protective effects of various diseases. Recent researches have suggested that LUT can carry out cardioprotective effects during ischemia/reperfusion (I/R). However, there have no reports on whether LUT can exert protective effects against myocardial I/R injury through the actio...

Many approaches have been proposed for monitoring the eutrophication of Case 2 waters using remote sensing data. Semi-analytical algorithms and spectrum matching are two major approaches for chlorophyll-a (Chla) retrieval. Semi-analytical algorithms provide indices correlated with phytoplankton characteristics, (e.g., maximum and minimum absorption peaks). Algorithms’ indices are correlated wit...

In this paper, we study the circuit performance issues of high-K gate dielectric MOSFETs using the Look-up Table (LUT) approach. The LUT approach is implemented in a public-domain circuit simulator SEQUEL. We observed an excellent match between LUT simulator and mixed mode simulations using MEDICI. This work clearly demonstrates the predictive power of the new simulator, as it enables evaluatio...

This extended abstract defines a class of architectures for pipeline reconfigurable FPGAs by parameterizing a generic model. This class of architectures is sufficiently general to allow exploration of the most important design trade-offs. The parameters include the word size and LUT size, the number of global busses and registers associated with each logic block, and the horizontal interconnect...

Several architectures have been reported in the literature for memory-based implementation of DSP algorithms involving orthogonal transforms and digital filters. A common way of implementing constant multiplication is by a series of shift and adds operations. If the multiplier is represented in Canonical Signed Digit (CSD) form, then the number of additions (or subtractions) used will be a mini...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the applicability and precision of a novel infusion-drainage device (IDD) for standardized filling paradigms in neuro-urology and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies of lower urinary tract (LUT) function/dysfunction. SUBJECTS/PATIENTS AND METHODS The IDD is based on electrohydrostatic actuation which was previously proven feasible in a prototype setup. T...

This paper presents the theoretical basis of the algorithm designed for the generation of leaf area index and diurnal course of its sunlit portion from NASA's Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC) onboard NOAA's Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR). The Look-up-Table (LUT) approach implemented in the MODIS operational LAI/FPAR algorithm is adopted. The LUT, which is the heart of the appr...

This brief demonstrates a new adaptive digital predistortion architecture particularly suited to mobile handset applications. The central idea is to build a lookup table (LUT) that directly captures the static compressive nonlinearity of the power amplifier (PA) and then insert this LUT into the feedback path of a ΔΣ modulator. The oversampled ΔΣ modulator automatically performs both the invers...