... 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 ... the effect of a herbal mixture on cancer Such approaches may be used forthe standardization of herbal extract activity An example is the comparison ofthe gene profile of PC-SPES with that of ... of Chinese medicine for cancer patients Readers will find his articles quite outof -the- norm as he stresses on holistic care and the importance of individualized therapy On the other hand, Prof...
... 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 be published for ... in the clin‐ ical 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 ... 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 ... Conclusions In the era of laparoscopy, approach to patients with pheochromocytoma is easier than in the past These patients should be further investigated for other neoplasias (such as thyroid carcinoma, ... 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...
... lot of bandwidth with their activities The major reason for this is the fact that for every individual search engine a whole bunch of such agents is gathering information The gathered information ... 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...
... progress in the formal titling of forestry land and: 73 percent of ethnic minorities who have forestry land have a land use certificate for all their forestry plots, with the allocation of forestry ... community-based forestry Forthe first time, it recognizes the forest userights of households, communities and other sectors as well as their ownership of plantation forest It provides a framework forthe ... percent of households in the Central Highlands have long-term use rights to forestry land These data reflect the continued importance ofthe SFEs in controlling the use of forestry land in the Central...
... 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 ... for their products, and deliberately cut profit margins in order to encourage the sale of these products They could work on the philosophy any business is better than no business, therefore offering...
... solely on the salvage pathway for synthesis of DNA precursors Thus, Uu-TK is a gateway forthe biosynthesis of dTTP, suggesting that Uu-TK is a good target for drug development Recently the 3D structures ... In the feedback inhibitor complexes of Uu-TK and hTK1, the lasso-like loop binds the thymidine moiety ofthe feedback inhibitor by hydrogen bonding by main-chain atoms [14] The structure ofthe ... substrate complex for any member ofthe TK1 family, we have now determined the first structure of a member ofthe TK1 family in complex with the substrate dT The possibilities for drug design have been...
... expressed in the chapters are these ofthe individual contributors and not necessarily those ofthe editors or publisher No responsibility is accepted forthe accuracy of information contained in the ... 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, ... At the end ofthe procedure, the bladder is filled to confirm that the closure is watertight and the bladder catheter is left in place for to 10 days to prevent fistula formation The removal of...
... 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, ... and therefore dissipates zero power The incident and the reflected voltage waves are ofthe same magnitude They are 180o out of phase at the load and they travel in opposite directions If the ... 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...
... 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 ... 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 ... where ZL is the output load connected to drain of M2, and this is assumed as pure resistor over the frequency of interest, for simplicity The load impedance ofthe cascode device, therefore, can...
... 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 ... shows the simulated currents for an input voltage variation of ±10% around to the ideal value of 2.2V The temperature was fixed in 37ºC The relative error between the mirror currents, at the ideal...
... plots ofthe pattern as a function of for some particular values of frequency, plus a few plots as a function of frequency for some particular values of θ will provide most ofthe useful information ... Either the longest identical pair of dipoles could be placed in the center ofthe slot and smallest identical pair close to the edges ofthe slot, or the smallest dipoles could be placed in the ... electromagnetic wave; it describes 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...
... 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 ... 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 for ... types of antenna to run their business Therefore, they only need to pay their attention on the manufacture cost of tag antenna, because ofthe huge amount of worldwide supply For RFID tag chip, there...
... 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 ... detect the tag (Fig 12) Therefore, using the same antenna design, we can adjust the content of silver filler in the ECA to cater to different requirement of read range As forthe real application of ... 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...
... 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 ... 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 ... AMC is also proper So the increase ofthe prototype size due to the use of 5x5 unit cells is not profitable from the performance point of view Taking this into account, the 5x4 AMC has been selected...
... building the peak signal through Eq (2), while only one basis function is used forthe generation ofthe edge signal forthe case ofthe FM0 signal [14] Therefore, the demodulation method ofthe Miller ... 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 ... versa, the second part ofthe tests is aimed at comparing the tags performance in another challenging step ofthe supply chain: the cases line Fig 18 shows the performance comparison, in terms of...
... transform theory, if one is interested in the time constants ofthe transients that affect an output ofthe system, one has to look forthe roots ofthe denominator ofthe transfer function from the ... 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 forthe HDX ... 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...
... PRNG, so the forward privacy should be preserved forthe LPN problem and PRNG at the same time Let us first analyse the forward privacy ofthe LPN problem The forward privacy proof ofthe LPN ... 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 ... 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...
... 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 ... according to the number of tags increase [Rom90] Therefore, to handle the poor performance of large number of tag identification EDFSA algorithm restricts the number of responding tags as much as the ... slot durations in the read cycle is identical The delay forthe transmitting ofthe RESPONSE packet is the definition ofthe slot duration As you see at Figure 13 (b) the size of RESPONSE packet...
... show the basic working principle ofthe analog baseband processing module The goal of this module is the signal conditioning forthe succeeding ADC module Figure 19(a) shows the output ofthe ... any direction of 3D space for a group of electronic tags The elements of algorithm of identification of interrogation zone for anticollision RFID system with the consideration ofthe energetic ... fulfilled, the practical use ofthe law of large numbers (Kalos & Whitlock, 2008) is the solution to this problem Forthe random variables xi and yi independently, the strong law of large numbers for the...