Networked cooperative personnel and multiple manned/unmanned vehicles play important roles in the Future Combat System (FCS), Future Force Warrior, Future Special Operations Forces (SOF), Land Warrior and Homeland Defense applications. Multi-sensor fusion based navigation and high bandwidth wireless communications are two of the key techniques for these applications. The navigation system is re...

Enterprise Integration Patterns are a collection of widely used patterns for integrating enterprise applications and business processes. These patterns informally represent typical design decisions for connecting enterprise applications. For the set of patterns collected by Hohpe and Woolf in “Enterprise Integration Patterns: Designing, Building, and Deploying Messaging Solutions” we presented ...

Optimal treatment of oncologic pain is a challenge to all professionals who deal with cancer and its complications. The management of upper abdominal pain is usually difficult and it is often refractory to conservative therapies. In this context, celiac plexus neurolysis (CPN) appears to be an important and indispensable tool because it alleviates pain, gives comfort to patients and is a safe p...

Abstract Background Common peroneal nerve (CPN) injury is one of the most common injuries in lower extremities and motor functional recovery injured was often unsatisfactory, mechanism which still controversial. The purpose this retrospective study to determine prognostic factors patients who underwent surgery for CPN provide a tool clinicians assess patients’ prognosis. Methods This cohort all...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study is to compare the efficacy of central (single) vs bilateral (2-injections) endoscopic ultrasound (EUS)-celiac plexus neurolysis (CPN) for palliation of patients with pain related to pancreatic cancer. MATERIALS AND METHODS Patients with unresectable pancreatic cancer were included. Central EUS CPN was used in the first group and bilateral EUS CPN in the s...

The obligate intracellular, gram-negative bacterium Chlamydophila pneumoniae (Cpn) has impact as a human pathogen. Little is known about changes in the Cpn transcriptome during its biphasic developmental cycle (the acute infection) and persistence. The latter stage has been linked to chronic diseases. To analyze Cpn CWL029 gene expression, we designed a pathogen-specific oligo microarray and op...