Article history: Received 28 March 2013 Received in revised form 4 March 2014 Accepted 4 March 2014 Available online 15 March 2014 JEL classification: F41

Article history: Received 4 May 2013 Received in revised form 11 March 2014 Accepted 4 April 2014 Available online 18 April 2014

Article history: Received 31 July 2013 Received in revised form 4 February 2014 Accepted 4 April 2014 Available online 16 April 2014

Benjamin Bruhn,1,* Jan Valenta,2 Ilya Sychugov,1 Kazutaka Mitsuishi,3 and Jan Linnros1 1Materials Physics, School of ICT, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, SE-164 40 Kista, Sweden 2Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Department of Chemical Physics and Optics, Charles University, Ke Karlovu 3, 12116 Prague 2, Czech Republic 3High Voltage Electron Microscopy Station, National Institute for Mater...

One hundred and forty-four patients primarily receiving kidneys from cadaver donors between Jan., 1978 and Oct., 1989, were reviewed. The patients' ages ranged 14-53 with a mean +/- S.D. of 34.7 +/- 8.0 years old. There were 100 males and 44 females. Twenty kidneys were harvested from heart-beating donors and 124 from non-heart-beating donors. In harvest from non-heart-beating donors, we perfor...

Case report Brachial Plexus Injury (BPI) is an uncommon complication of median sternotomy capable of causing a permanent or transitory sensitivity and/or motor function impairment in the upper limbs. During a cardiac surgery through sternotomy, for the assessment of the thoracic cage configuration and the site of mediastinal structures, a broader surgical field may be required. If the sternal r...

Received Jan 2, 2014 Revised Mar 12, 2014 Accepted Mar 25, 2014 This paper proposes the single-switch bridgeless boost power factor correction (PFC) converter to achieve high efficiency in low cost. The proposed converter utilizes only one active switching device forPFC operation as well as expecting higher efficiency than typical boost PFC converters. On the other hand, the implementation cost...

Article history: Received 4 August 2014 Received in revised form 1 October 2014 Accepted 26 October 2014 Available online 30 October 2014 Editor: M. Doser

Article history: Received 30 April 2014 Received in revised form 23 October 2014 Accepted 28 October 2014 Available online 4 November 2014

Article history: Received 4 August 2014 Received in revised form 1 October 2014 Accepted 26 October 2014 Available online 30 October 2014 Editor: M. Doser