BACKGROUND Translating a question into a query using patient characteristics, type of intervention, control, and outcome (PICO) should help answer therapeutic questions in PubMed searches. The authors performed a randomized crossover trial to determine whether the PICO format was useful for quick searches of PubMed. METHODS Twenty-two residents and specialists working at the Radboud Universit...

Manish Kalia, Sumit Garg, Rajeev Shorey IBM India Research Laboratory, Block 1, Indian Institute of Technology, Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110016, India. Email: [email protected], Phone: 91-11-6861100, Fax: 91-11-6861555 Abstract—In indoor pico-cellular wireless systems, such as Bluetooth1 , a pico-cell has a Master-Slave configuration. Bluetooth is a Centralized Master driven system that supports T...

The paradigm of evidence-based medicine (EBM) recommends that physicians formulate clinical questions in terms of the problem/population, intervention, comparison, and outcome. Together, these elements comprise a PICO frame. Although the framework was developed to facilitate formulation of clinical questions, the ability of PICO structures to represent physicians’ information needs has not been...

Current commercial pico-projector systems are mainly designed as a principal or secondary output for which very few systems have interaction capabilities. Recent research, however, has created pico-projection prototypes with user interfaces tailored to device or application uses. This paper explores different design possibilities for mobile and embedded pico-projectors and identifies how those ...

We have seen a rapid increase in mobile data traffic in cellular networks, especially in densely populated areas called “hotspots.” In order to deal with this trend, heterogeneous networks (HetNet) are attracting much attention as a method of effectively accommodating such traffic increases using the Long Term Evolution (LTE)-Advanced system in the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP). Thi...

The paradigm of evidence-based medicine (EBM) recommends that physicians formulate clinical questions in terms of the problem/population, intervention, comparison, and outcome. Together, these elements comprise a PICO frame. Although this framework was developed to facilitate the formulation of clinical queries, the ability of PICO structures to represent physicians' information needs has not b...

This Application Note describes the use of the RNA 6000 Pico LabChip kit for the quality control of small amounts of RNA using the Agilent 2100 bioanalyzer. The main advantages of the RNA 6000 Pico LabChip kit are its high sensitivity combined with its time saving experimental procedure. Here, we show experimental data that demonstrate the sensitivity of the RNA 6000 Pico LabChip kit by the ana...

Although the range expansion and inter-cell interference coordination (ICIC) have been shown to successfully enhance the capacity and load balancing in the heterogeneous network (HetNet), their impacts on the handover performance are not fully understood in existing studies. In this paper, a novel measurement-based approach is adopted to investigate these issues, where the real measured data of...

OBJECTIVE Recent developments of negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) systems have focused on making pumps smaller, lighter, and more portable. The recently introduced PICO system manages wound fluid through a highly breathable film within the dressing, thereby negating the need for a canister, which allows greater mobility and patient concordance. The aim of this study is to compare the biol...

This paper describes the design and development of pico-hydro generation system using consuming water distributed to houses. Water flow in the domestic pipes has kinetic energy that potential to generate electricity for energy storage purposes in addition to the routine activities such as laundry, cook and bathe. The inherent water pressure and flow inside the pipe from utility’s main tank that...