We show that a rectangular metallic waveguide loaded with metamaterial elements consisting of electric-field-coupled (ELC) resonators placed at the sidewalls can operate well below the cutoff frequency of the respective unloaded waveguide. For the example considered of a waveguide with square cross-section and original TE-mode cut-off frequency at 16.67 GHz (under no loading), a TE-mode passban...

Knockout mice lacking myostatin (Mstn), a negative regulator of the growth of skeletal muscle, develop significant increases in the relative mass of masticatory muscles as well as the ability to generate higher maximal muscle forces. Wild-type and Mstn-deficient mice were compared to investigate the postnatal influence of elevated masticatory loads due to increased jaw-adductor and bite forces ...

INTRODUCTION Changes in disease etiology in the past century highlight the need to examine environmental factors that influence the epidemic of chronic disease in modern society. For bone, fracture associated with osteoporosis can lead to severe morbidity or mortality and is increasing faster than demographic changes in the population. Bones meet competing demands both structurally and metaboli...

While Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) show high performance for problems with regular structures, they do not perform well for irregular tasks due to the mismatches between irregular problem structures and SIMD-like GPU architectures. In this paper, we introduce a new library, CUIRRE, for improving performance of irregular applications on GPUs. CUIRRE reduces the load imbalance of GPU threads ...

Fusidic acid (CEM-102), an orally bioavailable fusidane antibiotic with a unique mode of action, is under development for treatment of acute gram-positive bacterial skin and skin structure infections, including those caused by methicillin-susceptible and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and streptococci. A phase 2, adaptive design, randomized, double-blind, multiple-center study of 1...

Future wireless video transmission systems will consider orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) as the basic modulation technique due to its robustness and low complexity implementation in the presence of frequency-selective channels. Recently, adaptive bit loading techniques have been applied to OFDM showing good performance gains in cable transmission systems. In this paper a multi...