BACKGROUND Public health research on sedentary behavior (SB) in youth has heavily relied on accelerometers. However, it has been limited by the lack of consensus on the most accurate accelerometer cut-points as well as by unknown effects caused by accelerometer position (wrist vs. hip) and output (single axis vs. multiple axes). The present study systematically evaluates classification accuracy...

This paper addresses the space–time code design for Rayleigh-fading channels using continuous phase modulation (CPM). General code construction is desirable due to the nonlinearity and inherent memory in CPM signals which make hand design or computer search computationally impractical. Several sufficient conditions for full rank are identified for CPM signaling schemes and for linear representa...

This paper presents a simple and robust mechanism, called Change-Point Monitoring (CPM), to detect denial of service (DoS) attacks. The core of CPM is based on the inherent network protocol behaviors, and is an instance of the Sequential Change Point Detection. To make the detection mechanism insensitive to sites and traffic patterns, a non-parametric Cumulative Sum (CUSUM) method is applied, t...

Patients with recurrent laryngeal nerve (RLN) paresis demonstrate impaired function of laryngeal muscles and swallowing. The cricopharyngeus muscle (CPM) is a major component of the upper esophageal sphincter. It was hypothesized that the RLN innervates this muscle. A nerve branch leading from the RLN to the CPM was found in adult sheep by anatomic dissection. Electrical stimulation of the RLN ...

To develop a culture system for large-scale production of mature hepatocytes, liver progenitor cells (LPCs) with a high proliferation potential would be advantageous. We have found that carboxypeptidase M (CPM) is highly expressed in embryonic LPCs, hepatoblasts, while its expression is decreased along with hepatic maturation. Consistently, CPM expression was transiently induced during hepatic ...

This study proposes an analytical method (AM) for V-type consequent-pole permanent magnet (V-CPM) machines to quickly determine the suitable (PM) volume while reducing PM compared that of interior (V-IPM) machine. Special air-gap magnetic flux density modeling is adopted in AM, which consists 4 asymmetric regions under one and iron pole V-CPM. specific utilized V-CPM topology, has a different s...

Conditions are derived under which M -ary fullresponse CPM space-time codes will attain full spatial diversity. General code construction rules are desirable due to the nonlinearity and inherent memory of CPM signals which make manual design or computer search difficult. A linear decomposition of CPM signals is used to identify a rank criterion for M -ary full-response CPM that specifies the se...

BACKGROUND Young patients with breast cancer represent a unique cohort of patients who often have different treatment plans than older patients. We hypothesized that the rates of contralateral prophylactic mastectomy (CPM) were significantly higher and those of lumpectomy were significantly lower in young patients compared with older patients and that this trend persists when adjusting for pati...