We examine the Medium Access Control sublayer of the IEEE 802.15.6 Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) standard, and propose minor modifications to the standard so that linear random network coding can be included to help improve energy efficiency and throughput of WBANs compatible with the standard. Both generation-based and sliding window approaches are possible, and a group-block acknowledgmen...

499 developing world, might help to encourage companies to spend resources on breakthrough innovation, rather than on minor modifications and lawyer fees. But whatever its implications for innovation, this much is clear: poor people around the world need better access to affordable drugs, and this decision will help to provide it. Disclosure forms provided by the author are available with the f...

This case report describes a laparoscopic sacral colpopexy using Mersilene mesh in a patient with complete vaginal vault prolapse. Mersilene mesh was placed as a hammock between the vaginal apex and the anterior surface of the sacrum, using intracorporeal needles and an extracorporeal knot tying technique. Minor modifications are made from the traditional abdominal approach, because the patient...

A description is given of the electronic readout system proposed by the CMS experiment for the microstrip tracker. It is an analogue system based on a front end chip development by RD20 and analogue optical links being developed by RD23. Both gas and silicon microstrips are read out by the same system with minor modifications to the front end chips to accommodate the different detector characte...

S19 previous guidelines. These guidelines are not particularly applicable to any specific treatment setting and may need minor modifications to suit the needs of patients in a specific setting. The recommendations are primarily meant for adult patients. The needs of children or the elderly with schizophrenia may be different. Finally, it is expected that recommendations made will have to be tai...

background: oral and maxillofacial pathology is one of the major courses in basic sciences relating dentistry to medicine and is the basis of learning many clinical sciences. since the periodic evaluation is important in identifying issues and solving them, in this study, students’ opinions were used to gather useful information for better planning in this course. the purpose of this study is t...

urethra in the cicatrix of the stump during the heallng process; and the freedom from inconvenience and distress which is apt to be caused afterwards by the dribbling of urine over the surface of the scrotum. This method has been adopted with various minor Modifications by different operators. Some divide the operation into two steps?first, establishing the perineal meatus, then removing the pe...

If we conceive of a Constraint Grammar as an ordered sequence of transformation rules of a particular kind – as reduction rules rather than replacement rules – the transformation-based learning method used to train Brill taggers can, with minor modifications, be used to train Constraint Grammar taggers as well. This paper makes a few observations based on this approach, and presents some initia...