We demonstrate red-emitting silicon quantum dot (SiQD) phosphors as a low-cost and environment-friendly alternative to rare-earth element phosphors or CdSe quantum dots. After surface passivation, the SiQD-phosphors achieve high photoluminescence quantum yield = 51% with 365-nm excitation. The phosphors also have a peak photoluminescence wavelength at 630 nm and a full-width-at-half-maximum of ...

SUMMARY Binding of short antigenic peptides to Major histocompatibility complex (MHC) proteins is the first step in T-cell mediated immune response. To understand the structural principles governing MHC-specific peptide recognition and binding, we have developed the MHC-Peptide Interaction Database (MPID), containing sequence-structure-function information. MPID (version 1.2) contains curated x...

LTE-A technology incorporates Inter-Cell Interference Coordination (ICIC) methods in order to enhance performance and mitigate interference. These methods include frequency allocation techniques that allow neighboring cells and femtocells in heterogeneous networks, to coordinately share and reuse available spectral resources, in order to avoid performance degradation for interference suffering ...

XML documents are by design self-describing. In order to accomplish this, the XML data is highly verbose and very repetitious. Although techniques already exist to compress XML and text in general, most do not keep the data in a form that is useful to users. We present a technique that makes use of recurring structures within an XML document to compress the file in a way that can achieve better...

Book details Elsevier Butterworth Heinemann; 2005. ISBN 0-7506-8836X. 486 pages, blue and black layout with 27 illustrations Review "Concise Clinical Oncology" by Clive Peedell is physically portable and handy. Measuring only 188 × 127 mm, it is in the size of any typical medical handbooks available (Figure 1). This makes it a useful pocket-size book, allowing the reader to carry it around conv...