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AB132. Nocturnal penile tumescence monitoring: what have we done and what should we do?

Objective: Erectile dysfunction (ED) is a complex disorder caused by multiple etiologies. It has been categorized into psychogenic, organic and mixed. Nocturnal penile tumescence (NPT) is critical to differentiate the organic or psychogenic and to evaluate penile erectile function. This report reviews all NPT measurements published, and presents the characteristics of each method. Methods: We r...

From Procedures to Objects: What Have We (Not) Done ?

Programming education has experienced a shift from imperative and procedural programming to object-orientation. This shift has been motivated by educators’ desire to please information technology industry and potential students; it is not motivated by psychology of programming nor by computer science education research—there are practically no results that would indicate that such a shift is de...

HDD Servo Control Technologies - What We Have Done and Where We Should Go -

Since 1986 when digital servo was introduced in mass production HDDs, various kinds of control theories have been applied to HDD servo system, and the performances had improved dramatically. A 3.5-inch HDD capacity, which was 251 MB in 1988, has 1,000,000 MB (1 TB) capacity in 2007. The Fast access (high quality motion control), very precise positioning (nanometer scale), and robustness against...

Gene therapy for cancer: what have we done and where are we going?

Gene-based therapies for cancer in clinical trials include strategies that involve augmentation of immunotherapeutic and chemotherapeutic approaches. These strategies include ex vivo and in vivo cytokine gene transfer, drug sensitization with genes for prodrug delivery, and the use of drug-resistance genes for bone marrow protection from high-dose chemotherapy. Inactivation of oncogene expressi...