Wireless sensor network has undergone tremendous development in the last one decade. The reduced size of the sensors coupled with enhanced capability made the dream of unobtrusive monitoring closer to reality. Sensors are cheaper and readily available in the market in these days. These sensors, when deployed on the human body, forms a Body Area Network (BAN) that can detect and forward various ...

Baicalin is one of the main bioactive flavone glucuronides derived as a medicinal herb from the dried roots of Scutellaria baicalensis Georgi, and it is widely used for the treatment of fever, inflammation, and other conditions. Due to baicalin's poor solubility in water, its absolute bioavailability after oral administration is only 2.2%. The objective of this study was to develop a novel baic...

There has been no research linking implementation of a public smoking ban and reduced incidence of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) among nonsmoking patients. An ex post facto matched control group study was conducted to determine whether there was a change in hospital admissions for AMI among nonsmoking patients after a public smoking ban was implemented in Monroe County compared with Delawar...

X -ray crystallography is one of the best tools to determine a molecule’s structure. But it’s not much use when your cherished compound is a greasy smear that resolutely fails to crystallize. In 2013, Makoto Fujita of the University of Tokyo unveiled a method that offered hope to researchers struggling with stubborn samples. It relies on a metal organic framework (MOF), a highly porous lattice ...

This note is a continuation to the paper [26]. We derive formula for non-Archimedean Monge-Ampère measures of big models. As applications, we positive intersection Mabuchi functional, and further reduces ( $$\textrm{Aut}(X, L)_0$$ )-uniform Yau-Tian-Donaldson conjecture polarized manifolds on existence approximate Zariski decompositions that satisfy some asymptotic vanishing condition. In an ap...

This paper analyzes the effects of a ban on smoking in public places upon firms and consumers. Analysis of survey data from public houses finds that the Scottish smoking ban (introduced in March 2006) reduced pub sales and harmed medium run profitability. An event study analysis of the stock market performance of pub-holding companies corroborates the negative effects of the smoking ban on firm...

Newcastle disease virus (NDV) can cause severe disease in chickens. Although NDV vaccines exist, there are frequent reports of outbreaks in vaccinated chickens. During 2009-2010, despite intense vaccination, NDV caused major outbreaks among commercial poultry farms in Indonesia. These outbreaks raised concern regarding the protective immunity of current vaccines against circulating virulent str...