This study addresses the ill-conditioning problem of the memory polynomial (MP) model with application to the predistortion of highly non-linear power amplifiers with memory effects. A resource-efficient lattice-based MP structure built using the cascade of a MP generator and a lattice predictor is proposed to overcome the ill-conditioning of the MP’s data matrix. The proposed model performance...

Methylprednisolone pulse therapy (MPPT), as a public recognized therapy of spinal cord injury (SCI), is doubted recently, and the exact mechanism of MP on SCI is unclear. This study sought to investigate the exact effect of MP on SCI. We examined the effect of MP in a model of SCI in vivo and an LPS induced model in vitro. We found that administration of MP produced an increase in the Basso, Be...

Educational standards alignment, which matches similar or equivalent concepts of educational standards, is a necessary task for educational resource retrieval. In order to automate the alignment task, it is important to model the semantics of educational standards statements that are imperative mood sentences. In this paper, we present the MP (Materialization Pattern) model for representing the...

The effects of high-dose methylprednisolone (MP) on vasospasm following subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) were investigated. In a double hemorrhage canine model, administration of high-dose MP (10 mg/kg, every 12 hours) reduced angiographic narrowing of the basilar artery and prevented morphological changes in the arterial wall. In addition, increased platelet aggregation observed from days 4 to 7 ...

The well-known electro-mechanical analogy that equates current, voltage, resistance, inductance and capacitance to force, velocity, damping, spring constant and mass has a shortcoming in that mass can only be used to simulate a capacitor which has one terminal connected to ground. A new model that was previously proposed by the authors that combines a mass with a pulley (MP) is shown to simulat...

the well-known electro-mechanical analogy that equates current, voltage, resistance, inductance and capacitance to force, velocity, damping, spring constant and mass has a shortcoming in that mass can only be used to simulate a capacitor which has one terminal connected to ground. a new model that was previously proposed by the authors that combines a mass with a pulley (mp) is shown to simulat...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Poor homing efficiency is one of the major limitations of current stem cell therapy. Magnetic bionanoparticles (MPs) obtained from Magnetospirillum sp. AMB-1 have a lipid bilayer membrane and ferromagnetic properties. We evaluated a novel priming strategy using MPs to enhance the homing of transplanted progenitor cells to target tissue. MATERIALS AND METHODS Effects ...