1450 CLINICAL CHEMISTRY, Vol. 29, No. 7, 1983 (GHb), electrophoresis on agar gel has an advantage over the simple chromatographic methods in that it is unaffected by variations in temperature or minor variations in pH or ionic strength of the buffer. With commercially prepared plates, results correlate well with those by liquid chromatography. Commercially prepared plates are expensive so we ha...

BACKGROUND The surveillance of subjects at risk of pancreatic cancer is restricted to clinical research; the incidence of familial pancreatic cancer needs to be better established. Thus, we aimed to evaluate the frequency of familial pancreatic cancer in a population of hospitalized patients with pancreatic cancer. METHODS A retrospective study based on the hospital charts of patients dischar...

0140-3664/$ see front matter 2011 Elsevier B.V. A doi:10.1016/j.comcom.2011.11.007 ⇑ Corresponding author. Tel.: +98 2166166678. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (H. You (M.H. Yeganeh), [email protected] (N. Alin edu (A. Movaghar). Data aggregation is a very important method to conserve energy by eliminating the inherent redundancy of raw data in dense WSNs. Although structure...

Course management systems (CMSs) enable institutions to engage users efficiently, increase enrollment without major facilities investments, and serve geographically dispersed student markets on an ongoing basis. The full benefits of technology cannot be realized if faculty do not adopt the new technology and use it to achieve their instructional design objectives. From a faculty perspective, pe...

0140-3664/$ see front matter 2012 Elsevier B.V. A http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.comcom.2012.11.001 q This work was supported in part by the NSF Gr 126232 and the DTRA Grants HDTRA1-08-1-0016 and ⇑ Corresponding author. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (P.M. v (S.C. Borst), [email protected] (L. Ying). MaxWeight scheduling has gained enormous popularity as a powerful paradigm for achieving q...

0140-3664/$ see front matter 2008 Elsevier B.V. A doi:10.1016/j.comcom.2008.08.003 * Tel.: +1 9055259140. E-mail address: [email protected] In recent work, we have introduced MI-MAC (Multimedia Integration Multiple Access Control), a new access control protocol for wireless cellular networks. MI-MAC was shown to be a good candidate for next generation wireless cellular networks, due to its s...

The minimum mean squared error (MMSE) criterion is a popular criterion for devising best predictors. In case of linear predictors, it has the advantage that no further distributional assumptions need to be made, other then about the firstand second-order moments. In the spatial and Earth sciences, it is the best linear unbiased predictor (BLUP) that is used most often. Despite the fact that in ...

0140-3664/$ see front matter 2008 Elsevier B.V. A doi:10.1016/j.comcom.2008.07.017 * Tel.: +90 312 231 7400x2123; fax: +90 312 230 8 E-mail addresses: [email protected], suatoz In wireless sensor networks, compromised sensor nodes aim to distort the integrity of data by sending false data reports, injecting false data during data aggregation, and disrupting transmission of aggregated data...

0140-3664/$ see front matter 2008 Elsevier B.V. A doi:10.1016/j.comcom.2008.05.044 * Corresponding author. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (N. Be ensi.rnu.tn (A. Belghith). IP Multicast has been proposed in order to manage group communications over the Internet in a bandwidth efficient manner. Although such a proposition has been well studied, there are still some inherent problems ...