BACKGROUND Carotid artery stenting (CAS) has recently emerged as a potential alternative to carotid endarterectomy. Cerebral embolization is the most devastating complication of CAS, and the echogenicity of carotid plaque has been indicated as one of the risk factors involved. This is the first study to analyze the role of a computer-assisted highly reproducible index of echogenicity, namely th...

(Extended Abstract) Later this year we shall see the release of the Third Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) specifications for WCDMA – the first third generation standard for mobile communications. This 3G system combines elements of both a radical departure and a timid evolution from the 2G system known as GSM. It is radically different from GSM in having a wide-band CDMA system for its ai...

In this paper, we address a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) communication system based on generalized spatial modulation (GSM) and dual-polarized (DP) antennas in sub-TeraHertz (sub-THz) bands to improve the Spectral Efficiency (SE) while reducing correlation effect space occupancy. Moreover, joint Maximum Likelihood (ML) detector Modified Ordered Block Minimum Mean-Squared Error (MOB-MMS...

Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) started to be developed by Europeans when the removal of many European trade barriers (encouraging business travel) intensified the need to provide “communications without boundaries”. In 1982, European Posts and Telecommunications Conference (CEPT) allocated two 25 MHz blocks of channels for a future Pan-European Cellular System. A special group wa...

In this article, we study the reliability of the GSM-R system against the electromagnetic (EM) disturbances present in its railway operating environment. We thus first present the results of electromagnetic environment characterization campaigns on board moving trains in EM conditions representative of those met during a train journey. Then, we describe a new experimental protocol that has been...

The business artifact (a.k.a. business entity) approach to modeling and implementing business operations and processes is based on a holistic marriage of data and process and enables a factoring of business operations based on key business-relevant conceptual entities. The recently introduced Guard-StageMilestone (GSM) artifact meta-model provides a hierarchical and declarative basis for specif...

Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) is one of the most commonly used cellular technologies in the world. One of the objectives in mobile communication systems is the security of the exchanged data. GSM employs many cryptographic algorithms for security like A5/1, A5/2 and A5/3. Even so, these algorithms do not provide sufficient level of security for protecting the confidentiality of ...

The GSM cellular system is one of the most popular 2G/2.5G/2.75G digital cellular telecommunications systems, which is widely used throughout the world. One of the most attractive features of GSM cellular system is handoff. It is the process of continuation of an active call when the mobile is moving from one cell to another without call termination. Usually, continuous service is achieved by p...

The GSM framework provides a methodology for the development of artifact-centric systems, an increasingly popular paradigm in service-oriented computing. In this paper we tackle the problem of verifying GSM programs in a multi-agent system setting. We provide an embedding from GSM into a suitable multi-agent systems semantics for reasoning about knowledge and time at the first-order level. Whil...

Introduction. The giant squid (Dosidicus gigas) is a species of great abundance and considered as potential resource to meet the demand for protein in Peru. Giant meal represents an alternative traditional proteins which can be used food fortification. Objective. To optimize extraction process identification soluble from (GSM). Materials methods. This study was conducted at Universidad Nacional...