Objective(s): Fibromyalgia (FM) is a central nervous system disorder characterized by widespread mechanical hyperalgesia due to unknown mechanisms. Several inflammatory mediators, such as interleukin-1 (IL-1), IL-6, IL-8, and tumor necrosis factor, are increased in the serum of FM patients. Although medications including pregabalin, duloxetine, and milnacipran are used...

This paper enables connectivity on everyday objects by transforming them into FM radio stations. To do this, we show for the first time that ambient FM radio signals can be used as a signal source for backscatter communication. Our design creates backscatter transmissions that can be decoded on any FM receiver including those in cars and smartphones. This enables us to achieve a previously infe...

BACKGROUND Contact pressure of UHMWPE acetabular cup has been shown to correlate with wear in total hip replacement (THR). The aim of the present study was to test the hypotheses that the cup geometry, abduction angle, thickness and clearance can modify the stresses in cemented polyethylene cups. METHODS Acetabular cups with different geometries (Link: IP and Lubinus eccentric) were tested cy...

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OBJECTIVES To explore differences in experiences of care reported in the Cancer Patient Experience Survey (CPES) between patients with cancer of unknown primary (CUP) and those with metastatic disease of known primary (non-CUP); to determine insights pertaining to the experiences of care for CUP respondents from free-text comments. DESIGN Two separate, but related, studies, involving secondar...

Frequently, a need exists to compute the postdetection (recovered data) signal-to-noise ratios (SNR) in a given frequency modulated (FM) or double frequency modulated (FM/FM) transmission link; alternately certain postdetection SNR requirements are established, and the link’s parameters must be correspondingly specified. In either case, relationships that clearly relate postdetection SNR to lin...

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