Stimulation of splenocytes from socially stressed mice [social disruption (SDR)] with Gram-negative bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) revealed a state of functional glucocorticoid (GC) resistance. LPS-stimulated splenocytes were less sensitive to the inhibitory effects of corticosterone. This study demonstrated that activation signals were required for the expression of splenic GC resistance. ...

Software Defined Radio (SDR) is a key enabling technology for mobile wireless Internet. SDR represents unique opportunity to provide Internet connectivity to handheld devices over a limitless range of communication standards. For SDR systems to realize their full potential, they must be reconfigurable through the dynamic deployment of SDR components. However, the current SDR Forum standard, Sof...

Software-defined radio (SDR) terminals are critical to enable concrete and consecutive inter-working between fourth generation wireless access systems or communication modes. The next generation of SDR terminals is intended to have heavy hardware resource requirements and switching between them will introduce dynamism in respect with timing and size of resource requests. On the longer term, SDR...

The influence of social disruption stress (SDR) on the susceptibility to endotoxic shock was investigated. SDR was found to increase the mortality of mice when they were challenged with the bacterial endotoxin lipopolysaccharide (LPS). Histological examination of SDR animals after LPS injection revealed widespread disseminated intravascular coagulation in the brain and lung, extensive meningiti...

PURPOSE To determine the biological effectiveness of single, fractionated and continuous low dose rate irradiation on the human colorectal cancer cell line CL187 in vitro and explore the cellular mechanisms. MATERIALS AND METHODS The CL187 cells were exposed to radiation of 6 MV X-ray at a high dose rate of 4Gy/min and 125I seed at a low dose rate of 2.77 cGy/h. Three groups were employed: si...

BACKGROUND Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is recognized as one of the major forces for bacterial genome evolution. Many clinically important bacteria may acquire virulence factors and antibiotic resistance through HGT. The comparative genomic analysis has become an important tool for identifying HGT in emerging pathogens. In this study, the Serine-Aspartate Repeat (Sdr) family has been compared...

Emerging global standards for high-speed data, like WiMAX, WiBro, HSDPA and EVDO, presently provide islands of coverage. Such standards require new capabilities from mobile devices. With the coexistence of independent standards, protocols and services it is essential to develop wireless platform that can seamlessly connect to any access networks supported by different standards. Here proposed s...

Digital Signal Processing (DSP) technology continues to transform radar systems and SDR systems. DSP technology has made it possible to improve dramatically the gains in radar sensitivity, range and image quality, as well as the gains in the SDR radio performance, data bandwidth and power efficiency. Next generation radars with SDR systems can leverage advancing DSP technology with advanced tec...

Spoken Document Retrieval (SDR) and Spoken Term Detection (STD) have been two of the most intensively investigated topics in spoken document processing research according to the establishment of the SDR and STD test collections by the Text REtrieval Conference (TREC) and NIST. Because Japanese spoken document processing researchers also requires such test collections for SDR and STD, we have es...

A real time, 2 Mbps to 150 Mbps portable SDR unit with MIMO and sensing capability which exposes all the PHY parameters to the higher layers will help advance experimental cognitive radio (CR), and wireless networking research. The current SDR implements a slight variant of the 802.11n draft specification, with the entire baseband implemented on a single Xilinx Virtex II 8000 device using comme...