IJSER © 2017 http://www.ijser.org Abstract—In this paper, we analyze the combined performance of joint transmit and receive antenna selection (JTRAS), transmit antenna selection/maximum ratio combining (TAS/MRC) and transmit antenna selection/receiver antenna selection (TAS/RAS) approach in the context of physical layer security (PLS) in multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) wiretap channels. W...

Total antioxidant status (TAS), and the influence of treatment and correlation between TAS and parameters involved in metabolic syndrome (MS) in pediatric cancer survivors were evaluated. One hundred children and adolescents were studied. Twenty-five survivors received radiotherapy, 12 were obese or overweight.Additionally, we analyzed TAS in eight children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (AL...

UNLABELLED Low health literacy and alexithymia have separately been emphasized as barriers to patient-practitioner communication, but the association between the two concepts has not been explored. OBJECTIVE To test the hypothesis that low oral health literacy and alexithymia are associated. METHOD Adults (n=127) aged 21-80 years (56% women) participated in this cross-sectional study. Oral ...

CONTEXT Therapy assistants (TAs) are widely used in the delivery of therapy services in rural Western Australia (WA). Appropriate training for TAs is an essential part of their practice; however, to date most TAs are trained 'on-the-job', thus taxing the scarce resources of rural and remote allied health professionals (AHPs). There has been limited recognized training that is suitable to their ...

Results: TOS levels and OSI values were signifi cantly higher in nonsurvivors compared with those in survivors. However, there was no signifi cant diff erence in TAS levels between survivors and nonsurvivors. GCS and RTS showed negative correlations with TOS levels, but neither was signifi cantly related to OSI levels. Furthermore, GCS scores were negatively correlated with TAS levels, whereas ...

TAS-106, a RNA polymerase inhibitor, was studied in solid tumors with potential clinical benefit and reasonable tolerability. We conducted a multicenter, international phase II trial of TAS-106 in salvage metastatic or recurrent head and neck squamous cell cancer (HNSCC) and nasopharyngeal cancer (NPC) patients. TAS-106 monotherapy was given at 6.5 mg/m(2) over 24-h continuous infusion every 3 ...

BACKGROUND The construct validity of alexithymia and its assessment using the 20-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20) in Japan is unknown. Low reliability has been found for the third factor of the TAS-20 in some cultures, and the factor structure for psychosomatic disorder patients has not been adequately investigated. Although alexithymia most likely has certain developmental aspects, this...

OBJECTIVE Beta-thalassemia major is an autosomal recessive disease causing severe and hemolytic anemia, which begins about 2-6 months after birth. Iron overload, which arises from recurrent transfusion and ineffective erythropoiesis, can enhance oxidative stress in thalassemic patients. The aim of this study was to evaluate the serum total antioxidant capacity of patients with ß-Thalassemia maj...

TAS-102 is a novel oral nucleoside antitumor agent consisting of trifluridine and tipiracil hydrochloride at a molar ratio of 1:0.5. TAS-102 was approved in Japan in March 2014 for the treatment of patients with unresectable, advanced or recurrent colorectal cancer that is refractory to standard therapies. In the present study, enhancement of the therapeutic efficacy using a combination therapy...