Serum creatine kinase, myoglobin, and percentage lymphocyte capping was determined in ten patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, 12 carriers (nine definite and three probable), 16 other female relatives, and eight normal controls. There was no detectable difference in lymphocyte capping ability between any of these clinical groups. Significant myoglobinaemia was present in all the affected ...

Sir, I read with interest the paper by Mollica et al.1 and should like to add the results of our prospective study for comparison with other Mediterranean countries on 37 HBsAg mothers who were found among 1002 pregnant women attending a maternity hospital. Although 3.7% of the mothers were positive for HBsAg, only in 0. 1 % of cord blood specimens was HBsAg demonstrable by counter electrophore...

For data detection in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems over mobile wireless channels, the inter-carrier interference (ICI) term arising from Doppler spread is correlated with the desired carrier term. In this paper, we carry out detailed analysis on the power correlation between the ICI and the desired signal term. Explicit closed-form expression for the covariance func...

A flow injection method is reported for the determination of ascorbic acid based on amperometric detection, using a cobalt(II) phthalocyanine (CoPc) modified graphite-epoxy electrode. The amperometric respons was evaluated with regard to pH, ionic strength of the electrolyte, flow rate of the carrier solution, injected sample volume and conditioning time of the electrode. The limit of detec...

The generation and detection of terahertz ~THz! radiation using ultrashort optical pulses has been intensively studied during the last decade. The pulse width of commercially available mode-locked Ti:sapphire lasers is approaching 10 fs. With such ultrashort pulses, a wider detection bandwidth is expected to be possible. Coherent detection of THz radiation based on a photoconductive ~PC! antenn...

Detection techniques based on the absence of any knowledge of the received carrier phase are referred to as non-coherent detection techniques. The optimum receiver under such a scenario is well known to be a structure that incorporates a form of square-law detection. This demodulation through M matched filters, where each one corresponds to the transmitted base band signals, the decision variab...

Coherent M-PSK reception in M-PSK receivers is achieved through use of two main PLLs (Phase Lock Loops): the carrier synchronization PLL (carrier PLL for short) and the symbol timing synchronization PLL (symbol PLL for short). An SNR (Signal-to-Noise Ratio) estimation module is also typically present in the receiver. In this paper we shall present an overview of contemporary coherent M-PSK rece...