The mechanism of radiation-induced delayed brain injuries remains poorly understood, and few treatment options are available. The aim of this study was to investigate whether temporal lobe necrosis can be reversed by anti-mycobacterium therapy (AMT). We conducted this prospective, controlled study in southern China. Ten patients with symptomatic delayed radiation injury were monitored during AM...

Alpha methyl tryosine (AMT), and inhibitor of norepinephrine (NOR) synthesis, was injected intraperitoneally (200 mg/kg) in Sprague Dawley rats, kept in a cold room, or at room temperature for 16 hours. Using formaldehyde induced NOR fluorescence, nerve counts were made on whole mounts of cerebral and femoral arterioles 14-300 micronm in diameter, utilizing a grid superimposed on the vessels. C...

This study describes a new noise suppression scheme for hearing aid applications based on the auditory masking threshold (AMT) in conjunction with a modified generalized minimummean square error estimator (GMMSE) for individual subjects with hearing loss. The representation of cochlear frequency resolution is achieved in terms of auditory filter equivalent rectangular bandwidths (ERBs). Estimat...

In 1994, IBM began to reengineer its global supply chain. It wanted to achieve quick responsiveness to customers with minimal inventory. To support this effort, we developed an extended-enterprise supply-chain analysis tool, the Asset Management Tool (AMT). AMT integrates graphical process modeling, analytical performance optimization, simulation, activity-based costing, and enterprise database...

Health monitoring of automated manual transmission (AMT) in modern vehicles can play a critical role to avoid its malfunctions and ensure vehicle functional safety. In order to meet this demand, this paper presents a model-based fault detection and identification (FDI) scheme for AMT. After developing the fault model of AMT, structural analysis (SA)-based fault detectability and isolability is ...

WordsEye is a system for converting from English text into three-dimensional graphical scenes that represent that text. At the core of WordsEye is the Scenario-Based Lexical Knowledge Resource (SBLR), a unified knowledge base and representational system for expressing lexical and real-world knowledge needed to depict scenes from text. This paper explores information collection methods for build...

Cellular cardiomyoplasty has emerged as a novel therapy to restore contractile function of injured failing myocardium. Human multipotent muscle derived stem cells (MDSC) can be a potential abundant, autologous cell source for cardiac repair. However, robust conditions for cardiomyocyte (CM) differentiation are not well established for this cell type. We have developed a new method for CM differ...

UNLABELLED Abnormal tryptophan metabolism catalyzed by indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase may play a prominent role in tumor immunoresistance in many tumor types, including lung tumors. The goal of this study was to evaluate the in vivo kinetics of alpha-(11)C-methyl-l-tryptophan (AMT), a PET tracer for tryptophan metabolism, in human lung tumors. METHODS Tracer transport and metabolic rates were ev...