BACKGROUND Spirometry as a non-invasive and inexpensive test is widely used for occupational health evaluations. Bronchodilator test is used for the assessment of airflow limitation and increase in forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1) or forced vital capacity (FVC) is considered as a positive response. This study was performed to assess the response of forced expiratory volume in 6 secon...

BACKGROUND The extremes of BMI are associated with an increased risk of miscarriage both in spontaneously conceived pregnancies and after fertility treatment. The aim of the present study was to study the effect of BMI on miscarriage rate (MR) in fresh IVF/ICSI, and in spontaneous and hormonally substituted frozen-thawed embryo (FET) cycles. METHODS Analysis was carried out on 3330 first preg...

New oligomers containing a pyrazine unit have been prepared: the bithienyl derivatives afforded p-type FET devices whereas the trifluoromethylphenyl derivatives showed n-type FET behavior.

Institute of Neuroscience and Medicine (INM-3,-4,-5), Forschungszentrum Juelich, Juelich, Germany Imaging results from subsequent measurements (preclinical 3T MR-BrainPET, HR+) are compared. O-(2-[F]fluoroethyl)-L-tyrosine (FET) may exhibit non-uniform tracer uptake in gliomas. The aim was to analyse and adapt the physical properties of the scanners and study variations of biological tumour vol...

In this study, we analyzed the total ionizing dose (TID) effect characteristics of p-type FinFET and Nanowire FET (NW-FET) according to structural aspect through comparison two devices. Similar n-type devices, NW-FETs are less affected than FinFETs by TID effect. For inverter circuit simulation, both n- p-types NW-FET were regarding The operation considering was verified using Berkeley short-ch...

Tatsuro Goda and Yuji Miyahara* Institute of Biomaterials and Bioengineering, Tokyo Medical and Dental University 2-3-10 Kanda-Surugadai, Chiyoda, Tokyo 101-0062, Japan *E-mail: [email protected] Phone: +81 3 5280 8095 Fax: +81 3 5280 8095 Abstract This article focuses on recent advances and developments of field effect transistor (FET) devices for detecting DNA recognition events such as ...

In this paper, design-oriented field effect transistor (FET) models are produced. For this purpose, FET modeling is put forward as a constrained, multiobjective optimization problem. Two novel methods for multiobjective optimization are employed: particle swarm optimization (PSO) uses the single-objective function, which gathers all of the objectives as aggregating functions; and the nondominat...

The effects of three different regimes of chest physiotherapy were compared in this cross-over study. Mucus clearance was monitored in nine clinically stable cystic fibrosis (CF) patients. The patients performed: 1) postural drainage with thoracic expansion exercises + forced expiration technique (FET) in the left decubitus position; 2) positive expiratory pressure (PEP)-mask breathing + FET; a...

UNLABELLED The objective of this study was to compare MRI response assessment with metabolic O-(2-(18)F-fluoroethyl)-L-tyrosine ((18)F-FET) PET response evaluation during antiangiogenic treatment in patients with recurrent high-grade glioma (rHGG). METHODS Eleven patients with rHGG were treated biweekly with bevacizumab-irinotecan. MR images and (18)F-FET PET scans were obtained at baseline a...