a clinical and experimental approach to epilepsy

... aliquoted and stored at -70°C until analysis The concentrations of total protein in the brain extracts were measured by Bradford assay (Bio Rad Laboratories, Munich, Germany) The intracerebral protein ... performed in compliance with the guidelines of the Federation of European Laboratory Animal Science Association (FELASA) and approval was granted by the Institutional Animal Care Committee of the ... industrialized countries [1,2] The neuropathological sequelae of brain injury are mediated in large part by a profound host-mediated intracranial inflammatory response [3-5] The pro-inflammatory cytokines...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 22:20

... and face masks that can be manufactured The CDC and WHO are actively promulgating behavioral changes that can reduce the circulation of influenza [17] Further education and preparation of health ... care workers and first responders to deal with an influenza pandemic is critical Only a physician over 60 years of age was even in medical school when the last and mildest influenza pandemic took ... H and N antigens Given only a few months, and a worldwide capacity of only about 500 million doses of human vaccine using present methods, use of vaccine and antivirals must be rational and carefully...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:21

... barcode labels record standard information such as patient ID, event, sample type and aliquot number The samples are batch shipped and aliquots that are received are scanned at the data and sample ... Cite this article as: Nadkarni et al.: Leveraging a clinical research information system to assist biospecimen data and workflow management: a hybrid approach Journal of Clinical Bioinformatics 2011 ... Mesothelioma Virtual Bank: a standard based biospecimen and clinical data resource to enhance translational research BMC Cancer 2008, 8:236 Amin W, Singh H, Pople AK, Winters S, Dhir R, Parwani AV,...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 09:22

... used to compute a combined state estimate and error covariance matrix for each target, and to predict, forward to the next scan, the collection of states for each target based on a fixed transition ... Finally, the parameter is defined as Δ O = (Φ; Π) (8) The assignment vector is treated as missing data and the observation vector as incomplete data, and these together form a complete data set ... validation gate of size 28 × 28, and so forth It is obvious that with such a large validation gate and a large number of targets, the data association problem is very crucial and needs an efficient...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 19:20

... TDOA, RSS, and AOA measurements (A1 ) All measurement errors, namely, {nTOA,i }, {nTDOA,i }, {nRSS,i }, and {nAOA,i } are sufficiently small and are modeled as zero-mean Gaussian random variables ... the antenna height and antenna gain, and a is the propagation constant Note that the propagation parameter a can be obtained via finding the path loss slope by measurement [22] In free space, a ... propagation parameter a is known and has a constant value for all RSS measurements (A3 ) The numbers of BSs for location using the TOA, TDOA, RSS, and AOA measurements are at least 3, 4, 3, and 2, respectively...

Ngày tải lên: 22/06/2014, 23:20

... mobility and handovers With WLANs laptops, palmtops, possibly portable mp3 players and/ or videoterminals, are all linked together, either via a central access point in a star topology (with immediate ... development and validation of real time demonstrators for laboratory and over the air S-UMTS experiments; iv) design and development of large reflector antennas; v) design and prototyping of an advanced ... CDMA’ at 800 MHz was launched its PCS version at 1900 MHz was soon made available Packet access was embedded into the system, and a standard for fixed radio terminals to provide fixed wireless access...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 20:23

... the same as in a conventional matched filter narrowband receiver Actually, from (2.60) we see that the cascade of despreading and accumulation can be seen also as the computation of a correlation ... 1-13, a typical wireless transceiver combines a data pipe, which gradually transforms the bit serial data stream coming from the Analog to Digital Converter (ADC) into a set of complex data messages, ... by appropriate tools that allow the joint design and verification of heterogeneous hardware and software Particularly, owing to the exponential increase of both design gate counts and verification...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 20:23

... concurrently active channels is too low to serve a large users population like we have in a large metropolitan area, or a vast suburban area This also applies to conventional FDMA or TDMA radio networks ... filtering are digital, and the ‘sampler’ is just a decimator/interpolator that changes the clock rate of the digital signal The ADC conversion rate of r (t ) is, in fact, invariably faster than the ... correlation properties by Sarwate and Pursley [Sar80] and in the survey on spreading codes for DS-CDMA by Dinan and Jabbari [Din98]) Let us now compare, in terms of capacity, the spreading arrangements...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 20:23

... band pass limiting and amplitude control of the IF received signal prior to Analog to Digital Conversion (ADC), and a digital processing unit devoted to SNIR (Signal to Design of an All Digital ... with particular emphasis on the multi-rate CDMA demodulator and to the interference mitigation functionality 1.1 Multi-Rate CDMA Signal As already detailed in the previous Chapter, the signal at ... phase at the accumulator output can not have n pha nacc because of speed limitations in the access to the LUT, therefore only the n pha MSBs of the accumulator (with n pha nacc ) are read out to...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 20:23

... DS/SS signal Actually, both in narrowband and in SS modulations one has to determine the carrier frequency with an accuracy much smaller than the symbol rate to ensure good data detection Clearly ... and (which in the following will be also referred as CPRU and CPRU , respectively) can be related to the noise loop (as is bandwidth BL and to the loop damping factor When BLTs always the case) ... intervals Admittedly, this time is somewhat larger than expected, considering the Design of an All Digital CDMA Receiver 127 damping factor and loop bandwidth as above On the other hand, what we...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 20:23

... drift and indefinitely increase, thus causing in the long run saturation and failure of the detector To prevent this, it is mandatory to calculate the error signal ee (based on the quantized values ... enough to sufficiently ‘decorrelate’ the additional noise terms owing to the diverse degradation factors The SNR degradation is anyway smaller than dB in any tested configuration, and is particularly ... outcome of a thorough overall FP receiver simulation also including AFCU and CPRU In particular, the AFCU step size was set to AFCU 19 and the initial frequency error to As is apparent from...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 20:23

... technologies such as FPGA (field programmable gate array), gate array, standard cell and full custom layout are currently available From top to bottom, the integration capability, performance, non-recurrent ... output database was transferred via Electronic Database Interchange Format (EDIF) to the Altera MAX+Plus IITM tool where it was utilized as a starting point for the final pad assignment and fitting ... with FPGA+ASIC technology BER measurement and SNIR estimation, as well as housekeeping and initialization, are carried out by the DSP Figures 4-5 and 4-6 show the schematic and the appearance,...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 20:23

... Fully stackable vias and contacts; Thin gate oxide (35 Angstrom); Shallow Trench Isolation between active regions, improving transistor density and planarity; Salicided active areas and gates (to ... limited layout with non-critical placement and routing operations Table 5-9 Synthesis results Total area (RAM + standard cells) RAM area Standard cells number (without clock tree) Fault coverage Maximum ... symbols are built by adding to the standard correlator output a correction term obtained with the adaptive vector xe A further block implements the vector adaptation rule, and a SRAM stores the...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 20:23

... 220 Chapter the whole ASIC layout in GDSII format A final parasitic parameters extraction was performed to obtain a Standard Parasitic Format (SPF) file for additional post-layout timing analysis ... IF channel filtering via an appropriate SAW filter, and signal amplitude automatic control to regulate the total received power as well as a suitable level for the subsequent Analog to Digital ... transmit and receive clock speeds The available bit and chip rates of the CDMA signal are shown in Table 6-1 The parameters of the CDMA signal are passed to the FORTRAN program by means of a...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 20:23

... autocorrelation data 25 off-zero 48 partial 44 automatic carrier frequency control unit 82 automatic gain control 140 average case user location 60 AWG See also arbitrary waveform generator AWGN See also ... terrestrial network, and ii) acting as a gap-filler in poorly covered areas Thus, the design and lowcost implementation of dual-mode terminals operating on similar carrier frequencies appears a mandatory ... filter AC user location See also average case user location A- CDMA See also asynchronous code division multiple access AceS acquisition average time 108 parallel 105 serial 105 total time 107 ad...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 20:23

... between all the authors of this manuscript The 'A to G' approach to managing a MET call was subsequently developed to achieve these minimal standards Finally, the 'A to G' approach was adapted to ... period Approach to the management of a MET call An approach to the management of a MET call was developed with the acronym 'A to G' (Table in Additional file 1) The members of the MET are encouraged ... the management of MET calls and provides an educational framework for the management of acutely unwell ward patients Further evaluation and validation of the approach are required Key messages...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:21

... this approach are largely drawn from suggestions made by authors of the clause relational approach to text analysis such as McCarthy (1991) [50], McCarthy and Carter (1994) [19], Crombie (198 5a ... Clause relations and types of clause relations Learners are expected to grasp the concept of clause relations and types of clause relations to assist them in approaching their reading and writing ... Writing and reading tasks and activities are designed based on suggestions made by clause relational approach authors like McCarthy (1991) [50], and McCarthy & Carter (1994) [19] 6.4 Teaching...

Ngày tải lên: 24/06/2015, 08:16

Ngày tải lên: 26/09/2015, 09:47

... Approach By reviewing and comparing Product Approach, Process Approach and Genre Approach, weakness and strength of each approach are identified As Raimes (1983:11) mentions that all of the approaches ... questionnaire and some major findings have been found The current EFL writing approaches as Product Approach, Process Approach and Genre Approach were reviewed and their advantages and drawbacks ... language learning classroom and some genre-based teaching approaches have come into being However, there are strong similarities with product approaches and, in some ways, genre approaches can...

Ngày tải lên: 07/11/2012, 14:31

... of installation, labor, and capital equipment costs makes it obvious that plug -and- play connectivity offers a tremendous advantage Advantage: plug -and- play The plug -and- play approach to an FTTP ... They are capable of meeting higher performance standards and manufacturing improvements that result in lower insertion and return loss Page Hardened adapters are integrated into environmentally ... drop cables are factory-connectorized assemblies with hardened connectors on each end These cables are also pre-tested and certified at the factory to meet performance requirements Each hardened...

Ngày tải lên: 17/01/2014, 11:20