Decreasing the Internet power consumption is a challenging issue. Optical transport networks employing the wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) technique have been identified as energy efficient solutions to face this issue, considering the expected high increase of Internet traffic. The authors study the energy efficiency of a recently-proposed switching technique for transport networks, the...

BACKGROUND We have acquired dual-echo spin-echo (DE SE) MRI data of the rhesus monkey brain since 1994 as part of an ongoing study of normal aging. To analyze these legacy data for regional volume changes, we have created a reference label atlas for the Template Driven Segmentation (TDS) algorithm. METHODS The atlas was manually created from DE SE legacy MRI data of one behaviorally normal, y...

INTRODUCTION This study examined acceptance by staff and patients of a therapy dog (TD) in the emergency department (ED). METHODS Immediately after TD visits to a University Hospital ED, all available ED staff, patients, and their visitors were invited to complete a survey. RESULTS Of 125 "patient" and 105 staff responses, most were favorable. Ninety-three percent of patients and 95% of sta...

Petri nets have been recognized as a powerful, graphical, and mathematical tool and widely used to model flexible manufacturing systems (FMS). To solve the problem of deadlock prevention for timed Petri nets (TdPN), an effective deadlock prevention policy based on the transition priority is presented in this poster. By analyzing reachability graphs of TdPN, a new class of TdPN named TdS 3 PRC i...

BACKGROUND The presence and the prognostic significance of perigastric tumor deposits (TDs) in primary gastric cancer have not been extensively studied. The aim of this study was to evaluate the prognostic significance perigastric TDs in primary gastric cancer. METHODS From 2005 to 2010, 1250 patients underwent R0 gastrectomy at the Department of Gastric Surgery, Fujian Medical University Uni...

BACKGROUND Testicular dysgenesis syndrome (TDS) is a common disease that links testicular germ cell cancer, cryptorchidism and some cases of hypospadias and male infertility with impaired development of the testis. The incidence of these disorders has increased over the last few decades, and testicular cancer now affects 1% of the Danish and Norwegian male population. METHODS To identify gene...

Many industries generate phenolic wastewater of acidic nature. Neutralization with sodium hydroxide generates the phenolic wastewater with high TDS. Both phenol and ionic concentration of TDS are inhibitor to biological treatment processes. A study was carried out for biological treatment of phenolic wastewater with high total dissolved solid (TDS) concentration in moving bed biofilm reactor (M...

Capacitive deionization (CDI) represents a novel electrosorption process for the desalination of brackish water. The CDI working principle depends on the use of porous carbon materials as electrodes. CDI electrodes possess a charged surface that results in adsorption of salt ions by being charged in low voltage and it desorbing the salt ions by applying a reverse potential to the electrodes. CD...

The commonest reproductive disorders in human males at birth (cryptorchidism, hypospadias) or young adulthood (low sperm counts, testis germ cell cancer) may comprise a ‘testicular dysgenesis syndrome’ (TDS) resulting from fetal testis dysfunction. We and others have developed an animal model for TDS, involving in utero exposure of pregnant rats to di-n-butyl phthalate (DBP), which is a common ...

The commonest reproductive disorders in human males at birth (cryptorchidism, hypospadias) or young adulthood (low sperm counts, testis germ cell cancer) may comprise a ‘testicular dysgenesis syndrome’ (TDS) resulting from fetal testis dysfunction. We and others have developed an animal model for TDS, involving in utero exposure of pregnant rats to di-n-butyl phthalate (DBP), which is a common ...