In this study, two new duplex PCR methods based on the groEL gene were developed and investigated for the diagnosis of rickettsiae. The first duplex PCR assay amplified the 229-bp and the 366-bp DNAs of 6 strains including typhus group (TG) and spotted fever group (SFG) rickettsiae, and 5 scrub typhus group (STG) rickettsiae, respectively. The second duplex PCR assay amplified the 397-bp and th...

Device-to-device (D2D) pairs are allowed to reuse the spectrum of cellular users who are in a good quality channel state with underlaying cellular network. However, cellular users usually suffer a poor performance in term of achievable rate when they are in a cell edge or in deep fading. To solve this problem, a hybrid relay-aided D2D communication scheme with a two-antenna infrastructure and u...

Duplex kidney (DK) is the most common congenital abnormality of the urinary tract, with an incidence of around 0.82%1,2. Basis of duplex kidney formation by embryology is explained as development of two ureteral buds separately from a single mesonephric duct gives rise to a duplex kidney with complete ureteral duplication. On the other hand, bifurcation of a single ureteral bud proximal to the ...

G-quadruplexes and i-motifs are complementary examples of non-canonical nucleic acid substructure conformations. G-quadruplex thermodynamic stability has been extensively studied for a variety of base sequences, but the degree of duplex destabilization that adjacent quadruplex structure formation can cause has yet to be fully addressed. Stable in vivo formation of these alternative nucleic acid...

Hypokalemia FIGURE 3-16 Comparison of duplex ultrasound with arteriography. A total of 102 consecutive patients with both duplex ultrasound scanning of the renal arteries and renal arteriography were prospectively studied. All patients in this study had difficult-to-control hypertension, unexplained azotemia, or associated peripheral vascular disease, giving them a high pretest likelihood of re...

A demonstration of a real-time full-duplex wireless link is presented, in which a pair of full-duplex transceivers perform simultaneous transmission and reception on the same frequency channel. A full-duplex transceiver is composed of a custom-designed small-form-factor analog self-interference canceller, and a digital self-interference cancellation implementation is integrated with the Nationa...

Late complications following endovascular aneurysm repair indicate the need for long-term surveillance. Clinical trials involving endoluminal stent grafts have typically used computed tomography angiography as the main imaging modality for surveillance. However, computed tomography angiography exposes the patient to higher levels of ionizing radiation, nephrotoxic agents, and increased cost com...

The physical properties of the DNA oligomer d(CGCGCGTTTTCGCGCG) in solvents containing 4 M NaClO4 and 0.1 M NaCl were investigated by proton NMR, optical melting, and circular dichroism spectroscopy. Results of these investigations are as follows: (i) The DNA hexadecamer exists as a unimolecular hairpin in either high or low salt. (ii) In high salt the stem region of the hairpin is in the left-...

Small molecules that intercalate in DNA and RNA are powerful agents for controlling nucleic acid structural transitions. We recently demonstrated that coralyne, a small crescent-shaped molecule, can cause the complete and irreversible disproportionation of duplex poly(dA)*poly(dT) into triplex poly(dA)*poly(dT)*poly(dT) and a poly(dA) self-structure. Both DNA secondary structures that result fr...

Duplex services are multimedia services that requires good connectivity in both uplink and downlink such as VoIP, video conferencing and interactive gaming. A weak connection in either directionmay cause degradation of performances and dissatisfaction of user experience.Most researchers do not consider this issue and treat resource allocations in uplink and downlink independently. For this reas...