... Cancer as the theme of our third volume is therefore appropriate There is no intention of guiding the reader on the choice of therapy, nor is there any suggestion of preferences ofthe available ... 5:31 PM Preface to Volume The third volume ofthe Annals of Traditional Chinese Medicine carries the theme of Cancer Treatment Since the commencement of this book series, the Editorial Board has ... hardware of a computer, then TCM could represent the software It recognizes a correspondence between patterns of information that are independent ofthe carrier ofthe information For example, the...
... manifestations of gangrene from the time of onset till the time they visited hospital for care This is most likely due to the fact that majority of them presented within the first month of onset ofthe ... sought and obtained from the heads of each health facility used The heads ofthe hospitals were assured of confidentiality of their patients’ identity and only the data without their identity would ... loss of sensation and subsequent alteration ofthe physical structure ofthe foot or any part ofthe body affected The combination of tissue damage with increased susceptibility to infection in the...
... that of others indicate that early ligation ofthe adrenal vein is not always feasible because ofthe posterior entrance to the cava on the right and the medial entrance to the renal vein on the ... day after The pathological evaluation ofthe tumor confirmed the diagnosis of pheochromocytoma Urine catecholamines, metanephrines and VMA returned to normal on the 7th postoperative day The patient ... 50% of patients with MEN syndrome [10] Pheochromocytomas associated with MEN 2A are diagnosed concurrently with MTC in 35-73% ofthe cases and as the first manifestation of MEN 2A in 9-27% of them...
... population rather than the upstream population These particular other-half consumers report the highest degree of frustration with the Web of any population segment Although they drive much ofthe consumer-information ... about the needs, preferences and motivations ofthe WWW/Internet user, as there is a broad variety of (types of) users It is therefore important to find out which of these groups will be the most ... psychographic analysis ofthe WWW users They have used their own psychographic system (VALS 2) to explore the psychology of people's choices and behaviour on the WWW What makes the results of their research...
... by the General Statistics Office (GSO) The severity of ethnic minority poverty is confirmed by other poverty measures The poverty gap, representing the extent to which the consumption ofthe ... pattern of landlessness and seasonal migration among the Khmer population ofthe Mekong delta (IEM/ WB, 2006c) Their lack of land and perhaps their long absences from their place of formal residence ... that the actions ofthe SFEs may well influence the livelihoods of forest-dependent households in that region These data also provide a sharp contrast to the land ownership patterns in the northern...
... around the world look at the election of President Obama, as a great moment of positive change However, the 44th President ofthe USA, entered the White House, amidst the beginning ofthe worse ... crisis since the Great Depression ofthe 1930’s There are fundamental differences between the crash of 1929, and the crash of 2009 People own more, expect more, and the economies ofthe World are ... heavily, covering the salaries ofthe "Chicken Police who drove around catching and fining "offenders." Aside from many ofthe ludicrous jobs created, the dark sideof this failure was the need to...
... Superimposition ofthe nucleotide-binding region in the substrate complex (orange) and the inhibitor complex (olive) Theside chain ofthe catalytic Glu97 has different positions in the two complexes In the ... role as the catalytic base for the phosphoryl transfer reaction (Fig 1B) In the inhibitor complex, the phosphates ofthe feedback inhibitor repel the glutamate side chain A shift in the catalytic ... inwards the active site In the inhibitor complex, theside chain is repelled by the phosphates ofthe inhibitor With radiolabelled ATP and a fixed concentration (100 lm) of various nucleoside analogues,...
... Endometriosis: The treatment of endometriosis-related infertility is dependent on the age ofthe woman, the duration of infertility, the stage of endometriosis, the involvement of ovaries, tubes, ... receptor, form the steroid receptors (SRs) family, which is one of three members ofthe nuclear receptor (NR) superfamily of transcription factors Besides the SR family, other members ofthe NR superfamily, ... the development of ovarian endometriosis In addition, the theory has been extended to include the peritoneum because ofthe proliferative and differentiation potential ofthe peritoneal mesothelium...
... corresponds to the upper half part ofthe Z-plane, and therefore presents inductive loads On the same way, the bottom half ofthe Smith chart corresponds to the bottom half part ofthe Z-plane, ... needs proper biasing Usually the DC bias of one stage does not interfere with the bias of another stage, thus the output ofthe common source stage and the input ofthe following stage are separated ... as the total output noise power over the output noise due to the input source The total output noise is the sum ofthe original noise at the input (which was amplified) and the noise added by the...
... hence the name ofthe method On the other side, the difference between the number of finite poles and finite zeros is still one This means that the asymptotic decrease of gain is the same as in the ... on the parameters that influence the linearity ofthe signal path, the noise, and therefore the spurious-free dynamic range ofthe mixer Finally, some techniques to enhance the bandwidth ofthe ... the right sideof (16) and equating the derivative to zero, one obtains that the maximal value ofthe right side occurs at y obtained from the equation: y 4y 2 (17) The solution of...
... the dominant one since rota is in the range of MΩ and can be at least 105 times larger than rds, which is the range of tens of Ohms So the frequency stability ofthe regulator is a function of ... tens of Ohm to rds and 106 Ohm for rota, than the gain is greater than 40 [dB] The dominant pole will have a frequency in the range of tens of Hz and the unit frequency gain in the range of hundreds ... to evaluate the ideal geometric aspect of MNREF1 to guarantee the reference voltage of 200 [mV] By equating the drain current of both NMOS transistors ofthe composite topology, then: W I ...
... employed The distinction is closely related to thesideofthe antennas to be used relative to the wavelength When the antennas are very small compared to the wavelength, theeffectsofthe currents ... the shape and orientation ofthe locus ofthe extremity ofthe field vectors as a function of time In antenna engineering, the polarization properties of plane waves or waves that can be considered ... reached when the collectors are identical and out ofthe saturation condition; The matched transistors should be close to each other in order to minimize the impact ofthe thermal gradient The matched...
... relative humidity) ofthe ECAs A) Variation ofthe relative resistance ofthe printed resistors ofthe ECA #1; B) variation ofthe relative resistance ofthe printed resistors ofthe ECA #2 (Copyright ... are the major bottleneck for wider applications Currently, the cost of chip is still the major part ofthe overall cost of a tag, which contributes about 30% to 70% ofthe total cost of a tag The ... part is the sum ofthe materials cost including the antenna, substrate, and that for integrating them together Since the cost ofthe chip keeps dropping due to the technical development, the need...
... observe that the minimum turn-on power ofthe reader is consistent with the electrical resistivity ofthe ECA samples, i.e with the increment ofthe resistivity ofthe antenna, the reader needs ... Fig 13, the FT-IR spectrum ofthe dried film ofthe as-prepared water-borne PU is investigated The peaks at 2933 cm-1 and 2854 cm-1 confirm the existence ofthe –CH2- group, the 1698 cm-1 the carbonyl ... for the temperature-humidity testing (THT) (Fig 16) As shown in Fig 16, we can observe a trend of decrease ofthe electrical resistivity over the period of time The reasons ofthe decrement of the...
... 2005) The different types of RFID systems are distinguished by two major characteristics: the power source ofthe tag and the frequency of operation With regards to the power source ofthe tag, they ... have the same operating bandwidth and the return loss ofthe antenna on 5x5 AMC is also proper So the increase ofthe prototype size due to the use of 5x5 unit cells is not profitable from the ... independently of nearby objects On the contrary, these objects can ruin the radiation properties ofthe antenna to different extent In RFID systems, the material ofthe objects the tags are attached...
... attenuate the amplitude response ofthe filter to about 80dB The spectral responses ofthe difference signal before the LPF and the initial peak signal after the LPF, and the magnitude response ofthe ... building the peak signal through Eq (2), while only one basis function is used for the generation ofthe edge signal for the case ofthe FM0 signal [14] Therefore, the demodulation method ofthe Miller ... where Adc is the initial DC-offset value, e Bt and e jwd t represent the damping term and oscillation term ofthe DC-offset noise, respectively, and e j is the initial phase ofthe DCoffset noise...
... through the antenna The variation ofthe current antenna causes the variation ofthe voltage VTAP at the tap point (the junction between the antenna coil and the tuning RFID Readers for the HDX ... affect an output ofthe system, one has to look for the roots ofthe denominator ofthe transfer function from the driving input to that output and take the inverses ofthe real parts of those roots, ... be the time constant for a transient In the limit of weak coupling, the denominator is the product of two factors, one of them depending exclusively on the tag and the other depending only on the...
... advantage ofthe LPN problem is at most _ 1 (19) Then, let us discuss the proof ofthe PRNG When the authentication is successful, the secret keys ofthe PRNG cannot be recovered since the key ... stores the addresses ofthe 2nd level The 2nd level is a linear table composed ofthe remainding ( ) bits ofthe -bit pseudonym, that stores the addresses ofthe actual information Assuming that the ... adding the noise vector So it is useless to consider the PRNG in this situation When the authentication is unsuccessful, the secret key ofthe PRNG is not updated The possible search length of the...
... estimates the number of unread tags instead of number of tags to determine the frame size H Vogt’s algorithm shows poor performance when the number of tags becomes large because the variance ofthe ... slot durations in the read cycle is identical The delay for the transmitting ofthe RESPONSE packet is the definition ofthe slot duration As you see at Figure 13 (b) the size of RESPONSE packet ... respectively, show the concept and the architecture ofthe realized RFID reader The following paragraphs will refer to these figures Fig shows the setup ofthe system for directly measuring the backscattered...
... (represented by the RTCS resistance) has the most significant influence on the parameters ofthe whole electric circuit which is located on thesideof connectors ofthe tag's antenna loop The inductive ... tags The problem of determining the interrogation zone is related to two cases In the first of them, an assumption is made that the location ofthe n-tags group is determined, whereas in the second ... locations ofthe group of n-tags in a space around the RWD antenna are going to be analyzed The problem connected with the first case is realizable by the assumption that the process of determining the...