Abstract We revisit low frequency coherent Raman spectroscopy (LF-CRS) and present a unified theoretical background that provides consistent physical pictures of LF-CRS signal generation. Our general framework allows to compute the noise ratio in multitude possible LF-CRS, more generally CRS, experimental implementations both spectral time domain.

BACKGROUND Poor sleep has significant effects on health contributing to increased morbidity and mortality. The direct and indirect costs of sleep dysfunction total well in to the billions of dollars annually in the US. Chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) affects up to 16% of the US population and has been linked to poor sleep quality with up to three quarters of patients with CRS reporting poor sleep ...

Child restraint systems (CRS) are the leading technology in providing safety and restraint to child occupants in automotive vehicles. Their success at reducing injury in motor vehicle crashes hinges largely upon their proper installation as well as their interface with the vehicle seat. To this degree, it is immensely important that vehicle manufacturers have an accurate means of producing seat...

This paper investigates the dominant impact on the interference rejection combining (IRC) receiver due to the downlink reference signal (RS) based covariance matrix estimation scheme. When the transmission modes using the cell-specific RS (CRS) in LTE/LTE-Advanced are assumed, the property of the non-precoded CRS is different from that of the data signals. This difference poses two problems to ...

BACKGROUND Chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) is a societal burden and cause of morbidity in Canada; however, the prevalence of allergic sensitization in Canadian CRS patients has remained poorly characterized. OBJECTIVE In this study, we used skin prick test (SPT) and specific immunoglobulin E (sIgE) and G (sIgG) titers to regionally relevant allergen sources in order to determine whether allergic...

A total of 111 Ag-Ab x-ray crystal structures of large protein Ag epitopes and paratopes were analyzed to inform the process of eliciting or selecting functional and therapeutic Abs. These analyses illustrate that Ab contact residues (CR) are distributed in three prominent CR regions (CRR) on L and H chains that overlap but do not coincide with Ab CDR. The number of Ag and Ab CRs per structure ...

STUDY OBJECTIVES Although other specialties have examined the role of the chief resident (CR), the role and training of the emergency medicine (EM) CR has largely been undefined. METHODS A survey was mailed to all EM CRs and their respective program directors (PD) in 124 EM residency programs. The survey consisted of questions defining demographics, duties of the typical CR, and opinions rega...

BACKGROUND There is no consensus regarding the secondary cytoreduction surgery (CRS) in recurrent ovarian cancer patients. The present study aims to determine the value of secondary CRS and the eligible subgroup for this procedure. METHODS 96 platinum-sensitive recurrent ovarian cancer patients were recruited from Jiangsu Institute of Cancer Research between 1992 and 2011. Follow-up was condu...

introduction: disorders of the nose and paranasal sinuses are among the most common chronic illnesses. although considerable progress has been made in the medical and surgical control of these diseases, a large number of questions relating to the diagnosis, evaluation, and treatment of these conditions remain unanswered. the aim of the present study was to evaluate differences in the frequency ...

BACKGROUND Cytoreductive surgery (CRS) with hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) has become the treatment of choice for resectable peritoneal carcinomatosis (PC) and improved the survival of these patients. The situation changes if PC recurs and repeated CRS with HIPEC is considered. The patient selection and outcome of the repeated approach has not been well described. We analyzed...