The play-the-winner (PW) rule is an important method in clinical trials where patients can be assigned to one of the two treatments. In the PW rule, the probability of the next patient to be assigned to a particular treatment only depends on the response of the current patient. In this paper, we consider a general kind of PW rule for multi-treatment adaptive designs, in which the probability th...

We demonstrate the piezoelectric effect on the responsivity of a metal-semiconductor-metal ZnO micro-/nanowire photodetector. The responsivity of the photodetector is respectively enhanced by 530%, 190%, 9%, and 15% upon 4.1 pW, 120.0 pW, 4.1 nW, and 180.4 nW UV light illumination onto the wire by introducing a -0.36% compressive strain in the wire, which effectively tuned the Schottky barrier ...

In a two-view setting, we are interested in finding the most likely camera poses T w 1 and T w 2 , both in the space SE(3) of 3D poses, and 3D points Pw j ∈R3, with j∈ 1..n, which we can do by minimizing the re-projection errors f (T w c ,P w; p) = ‖h(T w c ,Pw)− p‖Σ associated with each measurement p ∈ R2. Above, the measurement function h : SE(3)×R3→ R2 predicts the measurement p from the unk...

and to be power bounded (notation: T ∈ (PW)) if (1) holds for every polynomial of the special form p(ζ) = ζ where n is a positive integer. If T ∈ (PB) [resp., T ∈ (PW)], then there is a smallest number M ≥ 1 which satisfies (1) [resp., (1) restricted]. This number will be called the polynomial bound [resp., the power bound] of T and will be denoted by Mpb(T ) [resp., Mpw(T )]. (If T / ∈ (PB) [r...

We demonstrate a novel optoelectronic tweezer using light induced dielectrophoresis mechanism to optically trap and transport micro particles with optical power in the pW range. This device consists of two pattem-less surfaces: a bottom glass substrate coated with photoconductive material and a top transparent indium-tin-oxide (ITO) glass. To achieve optical trapping, we sandwich the liquid-imm...

Wireless Sensor Network MAC protocols usually employ periodic sleep and wakeup, achieving low dutycycle to save energy and to increase the lifetime of batterypowered sensor devices. Previously proposed PW-MAC (Predictive Wakeup MAC) protocol is based on asynchronous duty cycling. PW-MAC minimizes sensor node energy consumption by enabling senders to predict receiver′s wakeup times. However, PW-...

Graphene oxide (GO) nanosheets and polyoxometalate clusters, H(3)PW(12)O(40) (PW), were co-assembled into multilayer films via electrostatic layer-by-layer assembly. Under UV irradiation, a photoreduction reaction took place in the films which converted GO to reduced GO (rGO) due to the photocatalytic activity of PW clusters. By this means, uniform and large-area composite films based on rGO we...

Background: This study aimed to investigate the pedicle dimension and angulation in cervicothoracic junction (CTJ) using the findings of computed tomographic (CT) to help accurate insertion of pedicular screw. Methods: Forty three patients with high quality CT images of CTJ were evaluated. Pedicle width (PW), pedicle height (PH), pedicle axis length (PAL), transverse angle (TA) and sagittal ang...

Irrigation and fertilization technologies need to be adapted climate change provided as effectively efficiently possible. The current study proposed pocket fertigation, an innovative new idea in providing irrigation water by using a porous material the form of ring/disc inserted surrounding plant’s roots emitter equipped with “pocket”/bag for storing fertilizer. objective was evaluate functiona...

BACKGROUND Cardiovascular disease (CVD) has become the main cause of morbidity and mortality world-wide. OBJECTIVE In order to obtain the potential function of cardiovascular system information further, the parameters of the coupling relationship between Electrocardiogram (ECG) signal and Pulse Wave (PW) signal are proposed. METHODS In this paper, we detected the peaks of ECG and PW signal ...