The asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) is a promising technique for broadband switching that is capable of supporting high-bit-rate multimedia services. Progress in all-optical parallel processing shows that photonics may be used in the future in full-functionality ATM switching nodes. All-optical switching fabrics and buffers have already been demonstrated. Fewer studies have been dedicated to A...

Chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting (CINV) is a serious adverse effect of chemotherapy that limits patients' physical, mental, and functional capabilities and may cause a delay or cessation of treatment. Antiemetic therapy can reduce the incidence of CINV. Research, using data from visits by patients receiving moderately (MEC) or highly emetogenic chemotherapy (HEC), identified that antiem...

OBJECTIVE We compared profiles of the numbers of circulating endothelial cells (CEC) and the apoptosis-inducing capacity of serum samples on human endothelial cells (hEC) in on-pump and off-pump coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) patients. METHODS Blood samples from 30 patients undergoing CABG (randomly assigned to two groups: 15 patients off-pump and 15 on-pump (cardiopulmonary bypass, C...

Spyridon Orestis Palermos This paper focuses on the hypothesis of the extended cognition (HEC), and in particular, on two interrelated objections to it, namely the coupling-constitution fallacy and the cognitive bloat worry. Briefly, if there is no principled way in which we can decide whether a (cognitive) process depends on extra-neural (or extra-organismic) factors in a causal, or constituti...

Molecular mobility has long been established to relate to textural properties and stability of polymer films and is therefore an important property to characterise to better understand pharmaceutical film formulations. The molecular mobility of solvent cast hydroxyethyl cellulose (HEC) films has been investigated by means of thermally stimulated current (TSC) below the temperature at which the ...

The bioavailability of the major fraction of a 14C-labeled Escherichia coli extract (OM-89) of high molecular mass > 30 kD (HEC) was investigated in rats after a single oral administration of a dose of 100 mg/kg b.w. The determination of radioactivity in blood and plasma showed that HEC was absorbed by the digestive tract, either in its original form or partly degraded. In plasma, the radioacti...

Towards the end of the 1980s, the issue of whether IS case research was rigorously conducted was first raised. Benbasat et al. (1987) and Lee (1989) formulated some key recommendations on how to conduct high quality case study research in our field. Since then, qualitative research, in general, and case research in particular, has evolved and grown considerably. For example, researchers from se...

Accumulating evidence has demonstrated that microRNAs (miRNAs) play critical roles in cancer initiation and development by functioning either as oncogenes or as tumor suppressors. The role of microRNA-449a (miR-449a) in endometrial cancer remains unclear. We examined the levels of miR-449a and miR-449b in benign endometrium, type I and type II endometrial cancer tissues by quantitative real-tim...

abstract one of the techniques that has been used in different areas of sciences, and probably would be able to simulate complicated process of rainfall-run off is artificial neural network (ann). the purpose of this research is to evaluate the applicability of ann in rainfall- run off simulation and the comparison of the results to those produced by hec-hms model in azam river basin of herat i...