UNLABELLED INTRODUCTION Potential health damage by environmental emission of tobacco smoke (environmental tobacco smoke, ETS) has been demonstrated convincingly in numerous studies. People, especially children, are still exposed to ETS in the small space of private cars. Although major amounts of toxic compounds from ETS are likely transported into the distal lung via particulate matter (PM)...

We report a comparative study of the MDCK, Vero, and MRC-5 cell lines in the isolation of the influenza A (IA) virus. We studied 746 samples in which 63 IA viruses were isolated. The MDCK line displayed 100% sensitivity, the Vero line displayed 71.4%, and the MRC-5 displayed 57.1%. The MDCK line showed a statistically significant difference with respect to the Vero line (P = 0.001) and the MRC-...

This review article provides doctors and dentists with an introduction to the clinical applications and significance of magnetic resonance cisternography (MRC) for the evaluation of neurovascular compression of the trigeminal nerve in patients with trigeminal neuralgia (TN). Specifically, the method and characteristics of MRC are first explained using the relevant MR sequences. Next, clinical a...

In this paper we proposed an analytical method which is used for 802.15.3a UWB channel to find out the effect of rake receiver finger with Maximal ratio combining (MRC) scheme. We used a mathematical model which is derived while considering the receiver is MRC rake receiver. In this receiver we assigned weights to rake receiver finger in such a way to maximize the signal to noise ratio (SNR). W...

The authors declare no competing financial interests. DNH and MRC designed research. DNH, CTP, and RK performed research. DNH, CTP, RGL, and MRC analyzed data. DNH, CTP, and MRC wrote the paper. Funding sources. This research was supported entirely by the Intramural Research Program of the NIH, National Institute on Aging. Correspondence should be addressed to: Dr. Mark R Cookson, Cell Biology ...

In this paper, we explore the problem of routing, modulation and spectrum assignment (RMSA) for advance reservation (AR) requests in elastic optical networks (EONs), with objective to further reduce blocking probability improve utilization. On one hand, propose a minimum resource consumption routing policy (MRC) leaving more free resources future requests. other introduce two-dimensional (2D) p...

In this paper, the performance of average level crossing rate (LCR) and average fade duration (AFD) of the output signal of the maximum ratio combining (MRC) and the selection combining (SC) with a dual-branch receiver was analyzed. We derived some of the expressions with average LCR and AFD for both MRC and SC schemes operating in the correlated fading channel. The channel model of the diversi...

The authors present a novel theoretical method to analyse the maximal ratio combining (MRC) receivers using BPSK and M-PSK modulation in spatially correlated Rayleigh fading channels, with perfect and imperfect channel knowledge, in terms of antenna array configuration and parameters of scatterer distributions. In this analysis closed form expressions for error probabilities of these modulation...

Acceptable temperature is very important for mine refuge chamber (MRC) to ensure the safety of occupants. A novel control scheme combining cold source storage with compressed air (MCA) was proposed MRCs. An experiment conducted explore characteristics controlling in a MRC via MCA. Effects several main factors such as initial surrounding rock (ISRT), ventilation (VT), rate (VR) and heat (HR) on ...

OBJECTIVE To determine the prognostic value of clinical assessment and motor evoked potentials for upper limb strength and functional recovery after acute stroke, and to establish the possible use of motor evoked potentials in rehabilitation. DESIGN A prospective study. SUBJECTS Fifty-two patients with hemiparesis were enrolled one month post-stroke; 38 patients concluded the study at 12 mo...