introduction: over the last decade, exposure to non-ionizing electromagnetic waves due to base station antenna has increased. this in vivo study was planned for evaluating the effects of whole-body exposure to 950 mhz field of gsm mobile phone system on rat dentate gyrus long-term potentiation. materials and methods: 24 naive male wistar rats (3 month old, 225|¡|25 g) were randomly divided in t...

T. G. Tsuei is with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Ta Hwa Institute of Technology, Hsinchu, Taiwan, ROC, Han-Chieh Chao is a foil professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering, National Dong Hwa University, Hualien, Taiwan, ROC and Chih-Hung Ying is currently with Chunghwa Telecommunication Laboratories as a associate researcher, Chung li, Taiwan, ROC. Ta Hwa Institute of Tec...

Gibbsian statistical mechanics (GSM) is the most widely used version of among working physicists. Yet a closer look at GSM reveals that it unclear what theory actually says and how bears on experimental practice. The root cause difficulties status averaging principle, proposition we observe in an experiment ensemble average phase function. We review different stances toward this eventually pres...

The standardization of the first releases of third-generation cellular systems was finalized in ETSI/3GPP Release 99. Two major systems in this standard are the universal mobile telecommunications system (UMTS) and the global system for mobile communication/enhanced data rates for global evolution (GSM/EDGE). UMTS has been tailored to offer thirdgeneration services—that is, high user data rates...

Glycine sarcosine methyltransferase (Gsm) and sarcosine dimethylglycine methyltransferase (Sdm) catalyze glycine betaine synthesis from glycine. Disruption of the M. xanthus gsmA (MXAN 7068) or sdmA (MXAN 3190) gene, encoding Gsm or Sdm homologue proteins, respectively, generated mutants that exhibited a longer lag period of growth and delayed spore germination under osmostress.

Genome-wide association studies are helping to dissect the etiology of complex diseases. Although case-control association tests are generally more powerful than family-based association tests, population stratification can lead to spurious disease-marker association or mask a true association. Several methods have been proposed to match cases and controls prior to genotyping, using family info...

Vegan protein-based diet has attracted increasing interest in the prevention of metabolic syndrome (MetS). Meanwhile, adiponectin has become a highly potential molecular target in the prevention of MetS. Our study will identify a potential vegan protein diet for the prevention of MetS using rat models. Thirty-six Wistar rats were randomly assigned into three groups and given diets containing on...

Business entities with lifecycles (BEL’s) (a.k.a. business artifacts) are used to model conceptual entities that are central to guiding the operations of a business, and whose content changes as they move through those operations. The recently introduced Guard-StageMilestone (GSM) meta-model for BEL lifecycles is declarative in nature, and allows concurrent execution of long-running (possibly h...

Technical advances in networks, embedded computing, and wireless communications are leading to the next generation of complex intelligent systems called CyberPhysical Systems (CPS). CPS promises to transform the way we interact with the physical world. Efficient and reliable operation of the CTCS-3 (Chinese Train Control System Level 3) is great protection of the national economy and public saf...

Business artifacts (BAs, or artifacts) are used to model conceptual entities that are central to guiding the operations of a business, and whose content changes as they move through those operations. The recently introduced Guard-Stage-Milestone (GSM) meta-model for artifact lifecycles is declarative in nature, and allows concurrent execution of long-running (possibly human-executed) activities...