The differentiation of bone-resorbing osteoclasts is induced by RANKL signaling, and leads to the activation of NF-κB via TRAF6 activation. TRAF family member-associated NF-κB activator (TANK) acts as a negative regulator of Toll-like receptors (TLRs) and B-cell receptor (BCR) signaling by inhibiting TRAF6 activation. Tank(-/-) mice spontaneously develop autoimmune glomerular nephritis in an IL...

Recently, space-time block coding has emerged as a promising spatial transmit diversity scheme, mainly due to its simple decoding complexity. As it was initially proposed, spacetime block coding was based on the assumption of flat multipath fading channel, where there is no intersymbol interference. In this paper, we investigate the performance of two different receiver proposals using space-ti...

Histogram Equalization is a contrast enhancement technique in the image processing which uses the histogram of image. However histogram equalization is not the best method for contrast enhancement because the mean brightness of the output image is significantly different from the input image. There are several extensions of histogram equalization has been proposed to overcome the brightness pre...

In this paper, Tomlinson-Harashima precoding, a nonlinear pre-equalization technique, is proposed for transmission over multiple-input/multiple-output channels. Instead of equalizing intersymbol interference (temporal equalization) here spatial equalization, i.e., equalization of multi-user interference is performed. If only a low-rate backward channel is available for communicating channel sta...

The paper addresses the blind equalization problem of spread spectrum modulations in the presence of fast time-variant frequency selective channels. The basic assumption of the paper is that the channel response exhibit fast changes. A second goal of the paper is to force the definition of a universal CDMA blind equalization scheme that is capable to perform for DSCDMA or Multi-Carrier CDMA sig...

In mammography, thick or dense breast regions persistently suffer from reduced contrast-to-noise ratio (CNR) because of degraded contrast from large scatter intensities and relatively high noise. Area x-ray beam equalization can improve image quality by increasing the x-ray exposure to under-penetrated regions without increasing the exposure to other breast regions. Optimal equalization paramet...

In this paper, the novel concept of combinedequalization is investigated for coded uplink MC-CDMA. For combined-equalization it is presumed that channel state information (CSI) is available at the transmitter (Tx) as well as at the receiver (Rx). As a result, combined-equalization achieves considerable performance improvements over preor post-equalization applied alone if the corresponding prea...

With the development of the mobile communication, the related technologies have gone through a rapid growing phase from 1G to 3G, until 4G. The technology evolution targets to improve the performance of overall system, and promote the related services and applications. In this paper, author makes analysis on Turbo equalization based on M-QAM modulation in OFDM system. Since Turbo equalization i...

â â â â â â  â  abstract â  outward-oriented economies seem to grow faster than inward-looking ones. does the literature on convergence have anything to say on this? in the dynamic heckscher-ohlin-samuelson model, with factor-price equalization, there is no convergence of incomes. this is because with identical preferences and return to capital, irrespective of initial levels the growth rates o...

Last years, Wavelet Packet Modulation (WPM) or Wavelet Packet Transform based Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (WPT-OFDM) have been introduced to wired and wireless communication fields as efficient Multicarrier Modulation (MCM) techniques. The wavelets have interesting features such as flexibility, compatibility and localization in both time and frequency domains with no need to use ...