In this two-part paper, the DMT of cooperative multi-hop networks is examined. The focus is on single-source single-sink (ss-ss) multi-hop relay networks having slow-fading links and relays that potentially possess multiple antennas. In this first part, some basic results that help in determining the DMT of cooperative networks as well as in characterizing the two end-points of the DMT for arbi...

In addition to orthogonal and quasi-orthogonal space-time block codes (OSTBC, QSTBC), cyclic delay diversity (CDD) is a transmit diversity scheme that achieves full diversity gain of NnR, with N transmit antennas and nR receive antennas. The performance in terms of spatial multiplexing gain is quite limited, since all degrees of freedom are used to obtain diversity. Thus the gap between the div...

BACKGROUND Long-term persistence to treatment for chronic disease is difficult for patients to achieve, regardless of the disease or medication being used. The objective of this investigation was to examine treatment persistence with glatiramer acetate (GA) relative to available disease-modifying therapies (DMT) for multiple sclerosis (MS) over 12-, 24- and 36-month periods. METHODS Data from...

Abstract: Cyclic prefix based channel equalization employed in the Discrete Multitone (DMT) modulation offers the advantage of simplified implementation. However, this method has the disadvantage of amplifying channel noise for channels having deep nulls in the frequency response. The in-home power line channel is one such channel that has high noise content, in addition to deep frequency nulls...

There has been great interest in the design of DMT (discrete multitone) transceivers. An M -band DMT transceiver is called block based if the transmitter and the receiver consist of constant matrices. The commonly used DMT systems are mostly block based, e.g., the DFT based system used in transmission over digital subscriber lines. For an FIR channel of order L, it is known that redundancy of l...

The optimal separation conditions and online sample concentration for N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) and related compounds, including alpha-methyltryptamine (AMT), 5-methoxy-AMT (5-MeO-AMT), N,N-diethyltryptamine (DET), N,N-dipropyltryptamine (DPT), N,N-dibutyltryptamine (DBT), N,N-diisopropyltryptamine (DiPT), 5-methoxy-DMT (5-MeO-DMT), and 5-methoxy-N,N-DiPT (5-MeO-DiPT), using micellar EKC (ME...

We generated dose-response data for the endogenous and ultra-short-acting hallucinogen, N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT), in a cohort of experienced hallucinogen users, measuring multiple biological and psychological outcome measures. Subjective responses were quantified with a new rating scale, the HRS, which provided better resolution of dose effects than did the biological variables. A tolerance...

Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) and in particular Discrete Multitone (DMT) modulation has been proposed for the physical layer of wideband wireless local area networks. As an alternative, Filtered Multitone (FMT) modulation can be also considered, since it exhibits significantly lower spectral overlapping between adjacent subchannels, so providing higher transmission efficienc...

Tamoxifen, an antiestrogen used in the prevention and treatment of breast cancer, is extensively metabolized by cytochrome P450 enzymes. Its biotransformation to α-hydroxytamoxifen (α-OHT), which may be genotoxic, and to N-desmethyltamoxifen (N-DMT), which is partially hydroxylated to 4-hydroxy-N-DMT (endoxifen), a potent antiestrogen, is mediated by CYP3A enzymes. However, the potential contri...

Dansylated analogues of the potent and selective micro opioid peptide agonist [Dmt(1)]DALDA (H-Dmt-D-Arg-Phe-Lys-NH(2); Dmt = 2',6'-dimethyltyrosine) were prepared either by substitution of N(beta)-dansyl-alpha,beta-diaminopropionic acid or N(epsilon)-dansyllysine for Lys(4), or by attachment of a dansyl group to the C-terminal carboxamide function via a linker. All three analogues displayed hi...