Sensor networks and ad-hoc networks, which do not require a base station such as an access point, have a hidden node problem because nodes communicating at the same time cannot know each other's communication status. On other hand, in a wireless infrastructure network the access point manages the communication with the node using RTS (request to send) and CTS (clear to send). However, we cannot...

lymph node dissection is of prime importance for accurate staging of colorectal carcinomas. since a great number of small lymph nodes are missed in the traditional method, several fat clearing solutions have been introduced for easier detection of smaller lymph nodes. in this study we evaluated the efficacy of a new fat clearing solution so-called lymph node revealing solution (lnrs) in colecto...

background: the sentinel lymph node (sln) is defined as the first chain node in the lymphatic basin that receives primary lymphatic flow. if the sln is negative for metastatic disease, then other nodes are expected to be disease-free. sln techniques have been extensively applied in the staging and treatment of many tumors, including melanoma, breast and vulvar cancers. this study aims to evalua...

background: sentinel lymph node biopsy (slnb) has replaced axillary lymph node dissection (alnd) in early breast cancer patients as the first line surgical approach to axillary nodes. further dissection is performed only when sln is involved by tumor cells. however, in a significant proportion of patients, non-sentinel nodes are still not involved and axillary dissection has no additional thera...

This paper formulates the inverse power flow problem which is to infer nodal admittance matrix (hence network structure of system) from voltage and current phasors measured at a number buses. We show that can be uniquely identified sequence measurements corresponding different steady states when every node in system equipped with measurement device, Kron-reduced determined even if some nodes ar...

Learning how to estimate a connectional brain template (CBT) from population of multigraphs, where each graph (e.g., functional) quantifies particular relationship between pairs regions interest (ROIs), allows pin down the unique connectivity patterns shared across individuals. Specifically, CBT is viewed as an integral representation set highly heterogeneous graphs and ideally meeting centered...

Introduction: Recent studies showed that nitrergic system have specific modulatory effects on electrophysiological properties of atrioventricular (AV) node. The aim of this study was to determine the effects of nitric oxide (NO) on the electrophysiological properties of isolated rabbit AV node and to investigate the role of adrenergic and cholinergic receptors in the mechanism of its action...

Recently an incremental algorithm referred to as incremental extreme learning machine (I-ELM) was proposed by Huang et al. [G.-B. Huang, L. Chen, C.-K. Siew, Universal approximation using incremental constructive feedforward networks with random hidden nodes, IEEE Trans. Neural Networks 17(4) (2006) 879–892], which randomly generates hidden nodes and then analytically determines the output weig...

Abstract MAC address spoofing has plagued LAN communication for a long time. Many attacks use it as springboard to carry out subsequent attacks. The main reason this kind of attack is the exposure address. If source node can be hidden during frame forwarding, effectively prevented. This study proposes virtual switching (VMS) solution problem. VMS uses multi-address hopping technology make chang...

background: in this study we evaluated the prognostic impact of metastatic lymph node ratio (mlr) in patients with gastric cancer undergoing curative surgical resection. methods: a total of 121 patients with gastric adenocarcinoma undergoing curative r0 surgical resection in our institutions between 2003 and 2010 were included in this study.  mlr was classified into 3 groups as follows: mlr0; 0...