Good theoretical values for vital capacity (VCt) can be used to calculate a VC/VCt ratio which remains constant for a given individual subject throughout different growth periods. This longitudinal study on 27 boys was performed in order to determine whether a single equation was accurate throughout the growth of boys. The mean values of VC/VCt were also compared for the beginning and end of th...

—This paper presents a comparison between the outage capacity of MIMO channels predicted by the Kronecker and Müller models as a function of the number of scatterers, transmit and receive antennas. The Müller model is based on the single-scattered rays between arrays of transmit-and receive antennas, while the Kronecker model considers only double scattering. The channel capacity predictions by...

This paper considers the impact of the UMTS synchronisation channel (SCH) on bearer performance. The SCH is described, and it is shown that it has significantly different characteristics from other interference and noise sources. For this reason, it is important to understand whether it can be generally modelled in a simple way, e.g. by using its average received power. In reality, it is found ...

The index coding capacity is investigated through its structural properties. First, the capacity is characterized in three new multiletter expressions involving the clique number, Shannon capacity, and Lovász theta function of the confusion graph, the latter notion introduced by Alon, Hassidim, Lubetzky, Stav, and Weinstein. The main idea is that every confusion graph can be decomposed into a s...

Two radiochemical (Irosorb 59 and Res-O-Mat Fc), a mechanized (DSA 560) and several manual colorimetric procedures (test combination of Roche, Merck and Haury) for the determination of the total iron binding capacity were compared with the transferrin-binding capacity (immunoprecipitation). Whereas all methods show a satisfactory correlation with the transferrin concentration, most colorimetric...

Prior entanglement between sender and receiver, which exactly doubles the classical capacity of a noiseless quantum channel, can increase the classical capacity of some noisy quantum channels by an arbitrarily large constant factor depending on the channel, relative to the best known classical capacity achievable without entanglement. The enhancement factor is greatest for very noisy channels, ...

This letter proposes a limited feedback-based selfish linear precoding (SLP) strategy for downlink twouser MIMO systems. In the proposed strategy, each user selfishly chooses the other user’s precoding matrix which minimizes its capacity loss. The proposed SLP strategy has two advantages comparing with traditional linear precoding strategies. First, SLP improves the system capacity by resisting...

A direct proof of the relation between the one-shot classical capacity and the minimal output entropy for covariant quantum channels is suggested. The structure of covariant channels is described in some detail. A simple proof of a general inequality for entanglement-assisted classical capacity is given. 1. Let Φ be a quantum channel in a Hilbert space H of finite dimension-ality d, ¯ C (1) (Φ)...

1 Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, San Jose, CA. * Address correspondence to this author at: Santa Clara Valley Medical Center, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, 751 S. Bascom Ave, San Jose, CA 95128. E-mail [email protected]. Received October 1, 2014; accepted December 11, 2014. DOI: 10.1373/clinchem.2014.234229 © ...