BACKGROUND Ambulatory blood pressure monitoring (ABPM) is considered the gold standard for BP measurement, compared to clinic BP measurements (CBP), which are a less valid predictor of target organ damage and cardiovascular events. However, ABPM is considerably more expensive than CBP, leaving BP researchers with a difficult dilemma: Use the less efficient CBP measure, or bear the cost of the m...

An intelligent home is likely in the near future. An important ingredient in an intelligent environment such as a home is prediction – of the next low-level action, the next location, and the next high-level task that an inhabitant is likely to perform. In this paper we model inhabitant actions as states in a simple Markov model. We introduce an enhancement to this basic approach, the Taskbased...

Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) is an exclusively human pathogen that proliferates within phagosomes of host phagocytes. Host lipids are believed to provide the major carbon and energy sources for Mtb, with only limited availability of carbohydrates. There is an apparent paradox because five putative carbohydrate uptake permeases are present in Mtb, but there are essentially no host carbohydra...

In this work, the transfer matrix method (TMM) is employed to investigate optical properties of one-dimensional periodic and quasiperiodic photonic crystals containing nematic liquid crystal (NLC) layers. This structure expressed as (ABC)J(CBA)J made alternated layers isotropic dielectrics SiO2 (A), BGO (B) (C). The simulation study shows that proposed ternary configuration exhibits tunable def...

The Cell Superscalar framework (CellSs), from Barcelona Supercomputing Centre, offers a high-level portable programming model to port, parallelise and tune applications on Cell Broadband Engine. Via implementation of a Jacobi solver and a triple-matrix-multiply (TMM) kernel from a wavelet-based evaluation of Coulomb potentials in molecular systems, using the native programming API of the IBM So...

In neoplasia, telomere maintenance mechanisms (TMMs) can be prognostic and may direct therapy in the future. Two types of TMM, telomerase and recombination-based alternative lengthening of telomeres (ALT), result in four prognostic tumor groups when they occur individually, in combination, or in mutual absence. Correct designation of the TMM therefore requires an assessment of telomerase activi...

In this paper, an analytical method for vibrations analysis of offshore wind turbine towers with fixed monopile platform is presented. For this purpose, various and the most general models including CS, DS and AF models are used for modeling of wind turbine foundation and axial force is modeled as a variable force as well. The required equations for determination of wind turbine tower response ...

In this paper, we present the simulation results on the absorption modification in photonic crystal (PC) structures. For one-dimensional (1D) PC, using transfer matrix method (TMM), we obtained enhanced absorption in both defectfree and defect based PC structures. High absorption (>60%) and small bandwidth (< 0.1 λ0) at defect level were observed with optimal absorption layers of 10-15 for stru...

Accurate equilibrium properties of the ground and the three lowest excited states of the trimethylenemethane ~TMM! diradical are calculated by using the novel spin–flip electronic structure method. Changes in structures and vibrational frequencies upon excitation are analyzed. The bonding picture in different states of TMM is derived from wave function analysis and comparison of equilibrium str...