PURPOSE To investigate whether pathophysiological differences exist among healthy controls (HC) and patients with slow and normal transit constipation (STC and NTC), we evaluated (1) gastrointestinal (GI) symptoms using validated questionnaires; (2) circulating concentrations of neurotensin, motilin, corticotrophin-releasing factor (CRF), and somatostatin; and (3) possible differences in freque...

BACKGROUND Goshajinkigan (GJG) is used for the treatment of several neurological symptoms. We investigated the efficacy of GJG and mecobalamin (B12) against neurotoxicity associated with docetaxel (DOC) in breast cancer patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS Sixty breast cancer patients were treated with DOC. Thirty-three patients (GJG group) received oral administration of 7.5 g/day GJG and 27 pati...

In this paper, we study estimation of potentially unstable linear dynamical systems when the observations are distributed over a network. We are interested in scenarios when the information exchange among the agents is restricted. In particular, we consider that each agent can exchange information with its neighbors only once per dynamical system evolution-step. Existing work with similar infor...

This paper proposes a two way L and S band Gysel power divider/combiner that uses line to ground resistors. Step by step methods to obtain a wide isolation and transmission bandwidth are presented. A design that uses five resistors is selected and optimized based on Quasi Newton method. Then the Defected Microstrip Structure (DMS) and Defected Ground Structure (DGS) is used to obtain better tra...

The web service DNATCO (dnatco.org) classifies local conformations of DNA molecules beyond their traditional sorting to A, B and Z DNA forms. DNATCO provides an interface to robust algorithms assigning conformation classes called NTC: to dinucleotides extracted from DNA-containing structures uploaded in PDB format version 3.1 or above. The assigned dinucleotide NTC: classes are further grouped ...

Nowadays, compact and reliable electronic devices including up-to-date ceramic micro-electro-mechanical systems require thick-film resistors with significantly reduced dimensions and stable and precise resistance values. For that reason, instead of standard laser trimming method, high voltage pulse trimming of thick-film resistors is being introduced. This method allows controlled and reliable ...

Several types of commercial 100resistors can be used with the cryogenic current comparator to maintain the resistance unit, derived from the quantized Hall effect (QHE), and to disseminate this unit to laboratory resistance standards. Up until now, the transport behavior of these resistors has not been investigated. Such an investigation is of importance for carrying out comparisons that are cl...

This paper proposes a Chinese Abacus Digital-to-Analog Converter (DAC) for high speed and low power applications like audio and video applications. This circuit of DAC uses resister strings to get a good analog output. The designed DAC uses the algorithm of abacus. Instead of using binary code, here we use abacus code to control the switches. So the complexity and the area will be reduced autom...

This paper describes a method to model the impedance of Haddad type resistor over frequency interval ranging from 10 200 MHz, hereafter defined as LF-RF range. To this end, novel standards, 1 kΩ and 100 Ω, have been designed manufactured with aim sharply identifying nodes that define impedance. Resistor modelling is divided into two main parts: first one, describing central coaxial core second ...