Background: Asbestos-related diseases (ARD) are occupational hazards with high mortality rates. To identify asbestos exposure by previous occupation is the main issue for ARD compensation for workers. This study aimed to identify risk groups by applying standard classifications of industries and occupations to a national database of compensated ARD victims in Japan. Methods: We identified occup...

We propose a joint iterative transmit/receive (Tx/Rx) minimum mean square error (MMSE) frequency-domain equalization (FDE) and intersymbol interference cancellation (ISIC) suitable for single-carrier (SC) hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) with chase combining (CC). In the proposed scheme, a one-tap transmit MMSE-FDE and an iterative one-tap receive MMSE-FDE and ISIC are employed. Every tim...

a) Ecole polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Laboratoire de spectroscopie ultrarapide, ISIC, FSB-BSP, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland b) Ecole polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Laboratoire de chimie et biochimie computationnelles, ISIC, FSBBSP, CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland c) Paul Scherrer Institut, CH-5232 Villigen, Switzerland. d) Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Istituto Nazionale di Fisic...

BACKGROUND The availability of large complex data sets generated by high throughput technologies has enabled the recent proliferation of disease biomarker studies. However, a recurring problem in deriving biological information from large data sets is how to best incorporate expert knowledge into the biomarker selection process. OBJECTIVE To develop a generalizable framework that can incorpor...

BACKGROUND Job title or employment sector may be associated with Parkinson's disease (PD). METHODS In a case-control study, in four European centres, lifetime occupational histories were coded using modified International Standard Industrial Classification (ISIC) and Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT). We employed multiple logistic regression analyses adjusting for age, gender, smoking a...

あらまし 筆者らは以前,広帯域シングルキャリア(SC)信号伝送を対象とし,チャネル情報を送受信で用いて最 小平均自乗誤差(MMSE)規範に基づく 1 タップの周波数領域等化(FDE)を協調的に行うジョイント送信/受信 MMSE-FDEを提案した.最近,協調等化後に残留する符号間干渉(ISI)をキャンセルする繰り返し ISIキャンセル技 術(ISIC)を導入(ジョイント送信/受信 MMSE-FDE&ISIC)し,大幅な伝送特性の改善が可能であることを明らかにし てきた.また,ハイブリッド ARQ(HARQ)を用いる SC 伝送にジョイント送信/受信 MMSE-FDE を導入し,パケッ トの再送・合成を考慮した送受信 FDEを行うことでスループット特性を大幅に改善できることも明らかにしてきた. しかし以前の SC-HARQの検討では,繰り返し ISICの導入は行っていなかった.本報告では...

Inflows of foreign direct investment generate externalities that spill over to domestic firms and raise their productivity. This article examines the extent of spillover effects of foreign direct investment for firms in the highly disaggregated garment (ISIC 3221) and electronics industries (ISIC 3832) in Indonesia. Both are export-intensive industries, but differ greatly in technological sophi...

This article is a short overview of some recent research activity in the Laboratory of Inorganic Synthesis and Catalysis (LSCI) at EPFL-ISIC. It summarizes the work on Ni-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions of non-activated alkyl halides. It then describes and discusses the work on the bio-mimetic chemistry of [Fe]-hydrogenase.

This short paper reports the method and the evaluation results of Casio and Shinshu University joint team for the ISBI Challenge 2017 – Skin Lesion Analysis Towards Melanoma Detection – Part 3: Lesion Classification hosted by ISIC. Our online validation score was 0.958 with melanoma classifier AUC 0.924 and seborrheic keratosis classifier AUC 0.993.