Materials and methods 193, consecutive patients, 101 males, mean age 72 years, underwent CEA in our Institution from September 2007 to December 2009. All operations were only performed by two surgeons and all patients were monitored with TCO during general anesthesia. TCO parameters were always registered in: base-line, anesthesia induction, carotid clamping and declamping, wake up and estubati...

We calculate the \tco{polarization}-controlled Rayleigh scattering response of twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) based on continuum electronic band model developed by Bistritzer and MacDonald while considering its refinements which address effects structural corrugation, doping-dependent Hartree interactions particle-hole asymmetry. The dominant wave vectors for process emanate from various regio...

Carrier-grade systems in today’s telecom market have high availability needs; however, current market conditions are forcing telecom equipment providers to look for lower-cost alternatives. In this paper, we discuss Advanced Telecom Computing Architecture (AdvancedTCA), Carrier-Grade Linux (CGL), and how these standards meet the requirements of carrier-grade equipment. We also describe how both...

The selection of the best suppliers is a key issue for many companies. Nevertheless, it is important to highlight that the most economical supplier may not be the one that has the lowest purchase price. The cheapest supplier is the one that represents the lowest cost to the company, after being considered various aspects of supplying, such as quality, reliability of deliveries, the history of s...

The problem of weakly correlated electrons on a square lattice is formulated in terms of one-loop renormalization group. Starting from the action for the entire Brillouin zone (and not with a low-energy effective action) we reduce successively the cutoff Λ about the Fermi surface and follow the renormalization of the coupling U as a function of three energy-momenta. We calculate the intrinsic s...

Prostate specific membrane antigen (PSMA) targeted microbubbles (MBs) were developed using bioorthogonal chemistry. Streptavidin-labeled MBs were treated with a biotinylated tetrazine (MBTz) and targeted to PSMA expressing cells using trans-cyclooctene (TCO)-functionalized anti-PSMA antibodies (TCO-anti-PSMA). The extent of MB binding to PSMA positive cells for two different targeting strategie...

In amorphous/crystalline silicon heterojunction solar cells, an inversion layer is present at the front interface. By combining numerical simulations and experiments, we examine the contribution of the inversion layer to lateral transport and assess whether this layer can be exploited to replace the front transparent conductive oxide (TCO) in devices. For this, heterojunction solar cells of dif...

Mercaptoacetyltriglycine forms complexes with (186/188)Re and (99m)Tc radionuclides that are useful in nuclear medicine because they are substrates of the renal anion transport system. However, the renal clearance of [MO(MAG(3))](2-)(MAG(3) = penta-anionic form of mercaptoacetyltriglycine, M = Re, Tc) complexes are less than ideal. Organic sulphonates are also transported by the renal anion tra...

Removing CO 2 from the air with chemicals (Direct Air Capture, DAC) requires a significant amount of energy. Here, we evaluate cost co-constructing solvent DAC process its energy system. We compare eight systems paired two alternative designs for liquid-solvent system capturing 1 MtCO /year, which roughly 240 to 300 megawatts steady power equivalent, 80% thermal and 20% electric. Two burn natur...