Mobile Ad-hoc Network is capable of clearing lots of challenges involved in the real-world communication. They are used in emergency response schemes, military field operation, oil drilling and mining operations. Transmitting video over MANET is an active research area due to their potential wide spread applications. In the last decade, both mobile and multimedia communications have experienced...

Methods • Type of Study: prospective, analytical, longitudinal, and observational • Period: January 1-2011 / June 30-2014 (42 months) • Setting : Medical/Surgical ICU • Population: 2559 CIPs admitted consecutively to the ICU; sample: 484 CIPs with SS. • Exclusión criteria: CIPs < 16 y., major burn CIPs, incomplete clinical documentation, and voluntary discharge. • DRG AP-DRG 25.0 version (684 D...

A multidisciplinary approach to the management of breast cancer is the standard of care in developed health systems. We performed a systematic review to assess the extent and quality of evidence on whether multidisciplinary care (MDC), or related aspects of care contribute to clinical outcomes in breast cancer, and in particular whether these influence survival. Only two primary studies have lo...

Quaternary ammonium poly(2,6-dimethyl 1,4-phenylene oxide) (QAPPO) anion exchange membranes (AEMs) with topographically patterned surfaces were assessed in a microbial desalination cell (MDC) system. The MDC results with these QAPPO AEMs were benchmarked against a commercially available AEM. The MDC with the non-patterned QAPPO AEM (Q1) displayed the best desalination rate (a reduction of salin...

A fully quantum mechanical force field (QMFF) based on a modified “divide-and-conquer” (mDC) framework is applied to a series of molecular simulation applications, using a generalized Particle Mesh Ewald method extended to multipolar charge densities. Simulation results are presented for three example applications: liquid water, p-nitrophenylphosphate reactivity in solution, and crystalline N,N...

Dendritic cells (DC) have an instrumental role in the activation and function of both innate and adaptive immune responses. In humans, at least two distinct DC subsets have been characterized based on phenotypic markers: the myeloid DC (MDC) and the plasmacytoid DC (PDC). Both subsets are critical producers of cytokines (IL-12 for MDC and type I/II IFNs for PDC) and are functionally different. ...

Layered (LC) and multiple description coding (MDC) have been proposed as source coding techniques that are robust to channel errors for video transmission. LC and MDC have similar characteristics: they both generate multiple sub-bitstreams, and it is permissible to drop some portion of the data from the sub-bitstreams during transmission for both methods. However, they are different in the sens...

Although the transcription factors IRF-3 and IRF-7 are considered master regulators of type I interferon (IFN) induction and IFN stimulated gene (ISG) expression, Irf3(-/-)×Irf7(-/-) double knockout (DKO) myeloid dendritic cells (mDC) produce relatively normal levels of IFN-β after viral infection. We generated Irf3(-/-)×Irf5(-/-)×Irf7(-/-) triple knockout (TKO) mice to test whether IRF-5 was t...

We have known about the processes of methanogenesis and methanotrophy for over 100 years, since the days of Winogradsky, yet their contributions to the carbon cycle were deemed to be of negligible importance for the majority of that period. It is only in the last two decades that methane has been appreciated for its role in the global carbon cycle, and stable isotopes have come to the forefront...

Dendritic cell-tumor cell hybrids (heterokaryons) are under investigation as a means for tumor immunotherapy since they should express MHC class I molecules from both cell types and, thus, present tumor antigens within an immunogenic context. The aim of this work was, therefore, to evaluate, in vitro, the immunostimulatory potential of these heterokaryons. To generate the hybrids, mature dendri...