Four Vita-Stat (VS) automatic, coin-operated, blood pressure measuring devices were evaluated for accuracy and precision. Under field conditions, 342 adults had two blood pressure measurements with both the VS device and with the Random-Zero (RZ) device. Two of the VS machines gave significantly higher systolic (SBP) and diastolic blood pressure (DBP) values, compared to the RZ values. The mean...

Coliphage lambda proteins Rz and Rz1 are the inner membrane and outer membrane subunits of the spanin complex-a heterotetramer that bridges the periplasm and is essential for the disruption of the outer membrane during phage lysis. Recent evidence suggests the spanin complex functions by fusing the inner and outer membrane. Here, we use a genetics approach to investigate and characterize determ...

We present a comprehensive treatment of optically preamplified direct detection receivers for non-return-to-zero (NRZ) and return-to-zero (RZ) on/off keying modulation, taking into account the influence of different (N)RZ optical pulse shapes, specified at the receiver input, and filter transfer functions; optical Fabry–Pérot filters (FPFs) and Bragg gratings as well as electrical fifth-order B...

INTRODUCTION Optical label switching (OLS) is a promising technique for enabling low-latency forwarding of high-speed optical packets in future packet-based WDM networks. An efficient and robust optical label swapping technique is necessary for practical implementation. Several labeling schemes, including bit-serial [1, 2], sub-carrier multiplexing (SCM) [3] and orthogonal modulation [4] scheme...

We analyze the bit error probability reduction for direct detection ON–OFF keying optical receivers using return-to-zero (RZ) coding instead of the nonreturn-to-zero (NRZ) format. For the same average optical power, RZ is shown to outperform NRZ, even when employing the same receiver bandwidth. Results are given for receivers whose noise variance is i) dominated by a signal-independent term (e....

Abstract Extra temporal lobe epilepsy (eTLE) may involve heterogenous widespread cerebral networks. We investigated the structural network of an eTLE cohort, at postulated epileptogenic zone later surgically removed, as a node; resection (RZ). hypothesised patients with abnormal connection to/from RZ, to have proportionally increased abnormalities based on topological proximity in addition poor...

Twenty-one open pollinated populations of peach rootstock seedlings were evaluated for their response to infection by the root lesion nematode, Pratylenchus penetrans, over a period of 98 days. Nematode-infected peach seedling populations were shorter in plant height and had less shoot weight but more dry root weight than nematode-free controls. Rootstock differences were demonstrated for nemat...

In this paper, we theoretically and experimentally demonstrated the residual chromatic dispersion (CD) monitoring of 100-Gbit/s carrier suppress return-to-zero differential quadrature phase shift keying (CS-RZ DQPSK) signals by evaluating the asymmetry ratio of delay tap asynchronous sampling. This scheme can easily differentiate the positive and negative residual CD of the fiber link. The reso...

In this paper, a fiber optic communication system has been employed using 10G/2.5G asymmetric XGPON architecture. In this system bidirectional optical fiber has been employed for upstream and downstream data transmission. The system performance has been investigated for non-return-to-zero (NRZ) and return-to-zero (RZ) data formats by varying the length of the fiber for co-existed GPON and XG-PO...