In multimedia wireless networks, when a mobile host (MH) moves to a neighbor cell, it requests the base station (BS) to reserve the bandwidth for seamless handoff. The reservation scheme based on the fixed 2-tier cell structure was proposed to prevent the reservation requests from the MHs close to the BSs. In this reservation scheme, the BS requests the reservation only when the MH is outside o...

The technique of hydrogen-deuterium exchange coupled to mass spectrometry (HDX-MS) has been applied to a mesophilic (E. coli) dihydrofolate reductase under conditions that allow direct comparison to a thermophilic (B. stearothermophilus) ortholog, Ec-DHFR and Bs-DHFR, respectively. The analysis of hydrogen-deuterium exchange patterns within proteolytically derived peptides allows spatial resolu...

This study proposes a novel precoding scheme for multiuser multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) relay systems in the presence of imperfect channel state information (CSI). The base station (BS) and the MIMO relay station (RS) are both equipped with the same codebook of unitary matrices. According to each element of the codebook, we create a latent precoding matrix pair, namely a BS precoding m...

This letter investigates spatial correlation properties of radio-frequency massive multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) channels. The between channel vectors at the receive side is studied for interreceiver distances up to several wavelengths. an important property 5G wireless networks and its accurate prediction desirable in many applications. Measured simulated channels are compared using al...

Pluronic/bile salt/phospholipid mixed micelles (Pluronic/BS/PS-MM) drug carrier system for solubilization hydrophobic drugs was developed. A typical hydrophobic compound, pyrene, was selected as a representative hydrophobic compound to model the hydrophobic drugs. Five Pluronics, F68, F88, F98, F108, and F127 with different PPO chain length were studied. CMC data and solubilization capacities w...

Solid tumors with poorly perfused regions reveal some of the treatment limitations that restrict drug delivery and therapeutic efficacy. Acoustic droplet vaporization (ADV) has been applied to directly disrupt vessels and release nanodroplets, ADV-generated bubbles (ADV-Bs), and drugs into tumor tissue. In this study, we investigated the in vivo behavior of ADV-Bs stimulated by US, and evaluate...

Let Γ denote a D-bounded distance-regular graph, where D ≥ 3 is the diameter of Γ. For 0 ≤ s ≤ D − 3 and a weak-geodetically closed subgraph ∆ of Γ with diameter s, define a graph G(∆) whose vertex set is the collection of all weak-geodetically closed subgraphs of diameter s+2 containing ∆, and vertex Ω is adjacent to vertex Ω′ in G if and only if Ω∩Ω′ as a subgraph of Γ has diameter s+1. We sh...