Decoder Uses Fewer ICs

Efficient prenatal care: fewer visits, fewer sonograms.

In this issue of ecp, Evidence Matters focuses on obstetric care and how it might be done more efficiently. The goal of prenatal care is to ensure delivery of a healthy baby to a healthy mother. The standard regimen of care that most obstetric providers have been trained to use is intense—14 visits during a 40-week pregnancy and a myriad of screening tests. Many recommended aspects of prenatal ...

continuing educat ion for pharmacists Prebiot ics , Probiot ics , and Synbiot ics : Their Therapeutic Role

Objectives. At the completion of this activity, the participant will be able to: 1. define the terms prebiotic, probiotic, and synbiotic and the differences between these supplements; 2. recognize the mechanism of action of prebiotics, probiotics, and synbiotics in conferring benefit to patients; 3. demonstrate an understanding of conditions in which prebiotics, probiotics, and synbiotics have ...

Ics Congress Ics Congress Newsletter Melting Pot San Francisco

The San Francisco City Hall was open for all participants the whole evening. The building was fi rst open to public in 1915. Its dome, which owes much to Mansart‘s Baroque dome of Les Invalides, Paris, is the fi fth largest dome in the world. The City Hall was build by Arthur Brown Jr. who also designed San Francisco‘s War Memorial Opera House, Veterans Building, Temple Emanuel, Coit Tower and ...

Integrating MEMS and ICs

The majority of microelectromechanical system (MEMS) devices must be combined with integrated circuits (ICs) for operation in larger electronic systems. While MEMS transducers sense or control physical, optical or chemical quantities, ICs typically provide functionalities related to the signals of these transducers, such as analog-to-digital conversion, amplification, filtering and information ...

DISCRETES AND STANDARD ICs