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Advent of Elkosin

Commentary: Advent of sibling designs.

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The advent of IEEE 802

IEEE 802.16 is a promising standard that is expected to solve the “last mile” Internet access issue in a metropolitan area. In IEEE 802.16, several TDMA-based scheduling schemes are designed to provide “collisionfree” transmission of control messages. In this paper, we investigate the performance of coordinated distributed scheduling in IEEE 802.16 Mesh Mode, under realistic non-quasi-interfere...

Advent of spin chemistry

In 1976, Atkins 1) wrote a short review entitled “Magnetic field effects” and described at its beginning “The study of the effect of magnetic fields on chemical reactions has long been a romping ground for charlatans”. Until then, so many papers had reported magnetic field effects (MFEs) on chemical and biological reactions. Almost all of such results, however, lacked reproducibility and/or the...

The Advent of Lifestyle Medicine

The fact that lifestyle is closely associated with the pathogenesis of chronic diseases has been known for more than three decades. Smoking may cause lung cancer, and a lifestyle of fast food consumption and little exercise can cause metabolic diseases. The importance of lifestyle changes in terms of a new medical paradigm to solve chronic diseases is becoming popular in modern times. Lifestyle...