In this paper, spatial modulation (SM) is introduced to layered division multiplexing (LDM) systems for enlarging the spectral efficiency over broadcasting transmission. Firstly, the SM aided LDM (SM-LDM) system is proposed, in which different layered services utilize SM for terrestrial broadcasting transmission with different power levels. Then a spectral efficiency (SE) analysis framework for...

We investigate a series of logics that allow to reason about agents’ actions, abilities, and their knowledge about actions and abilities. These logics include Pauly’s Coalition Logic CL, Alternating-time Temporal Logic ATL, the logic of ‘seeing-to-it-that’ (STIT), and epistemic extensions thereof. While complete axiomatizations of CL and ATL exist, only the fragment of the STIT language without...

Typically, in cardiomyoplasty (CMP) experimental studies, a new intervention is examined only after 3 months of latissimus dorsi muscle (LDM) training. We believe that this has been a major mistake. In our approach, we sequentially measured the effects of LDM stimulation in CMP. Our experimental results showed that the effects of LDM stimulation were variable, and that this variability was pres...

Lidamycin (LDM), a member of the enediyne antibiotic family, is presently undergoing phase I clinical trials in P.R. China. In this study, we investigated the mechanisms of LDM-induced cell cycle arrest in order to support its use in clinical cancer therapy. Using human colon carcinoma HT-29 cells, we observed that LDM induced G2 cell cycle arrest in a time- and dose-dependent manner. LDM-induc...

OnMars, a smooth, draping unit—the “latitude-dependant mantle” (LDM), believed to comprise meter thick layers of dust and ice—extends from the midlatitudes to the poles, covering at least 23% of the surface. We show that the LDM can be 30m deep on pole-facing crater walls, and by measuring the erosional and depositional volumes of small gullies that incise these LDM deposits, we show that it mu...

Prolonged, frequently administered low-dose metronomic chemotherapy (LDM) is being explored (pre)clinically as a promising antiangiogenic antitumor strategy. Although appealing because of a favorable side effect profile and mostly oral dosing, LDM involves new challenges different from conventional maximum tolerated dose chemotherapy. These include possible altered pharmacokinetic characteristi...

To evaluate the feasibility of implanting the internal mammary artery (IMA) in the latissimus dorsi muscle (LDM) during cardiomyoplasty to create a bipediculated muscle flap. Four dogs went under cardiomyoplasty with the right LDM. The IMA was dissected with the intercostal arteries branching from the IMA clipped except for the three most distal branches. The distal part of the IMA was tunneled...

This paper proposes a full-body layered deformable model (LDM) inspired by manually labeled silhouettes for automatic model-based gait recognition from part-level gait dynamics in monocular video sequences. The LDM is defined for the fronto-parallel gait with 22 parameters describing the human body part shapes (widths and lengths) and dynamics (positions and orientations). There are four layers...

Objective: The efficacy of cardiomyoplasty depends upon a complete wrapping of the heart with the latissimus dorsi muscle flap (LDM). This is not possible with extremely dilated hearts. The goal of our experimental study was to increase the length of the LDM neurovascular pedicle to obtain a maximal LDM surface area and, hence, to perform a complete cardiac wrap. Three techniques were used in v...

Cluster of differentiation (CD)133 is considered a molecular marker of cancer stem cells in hepatocellular carcinoma. In the present study, the effect of lidamycin (LDM) on CD133 expression in hepatocellular carcinoma (Huh7 cells) was evaluated and the potential molecular mechanism was investigated. Flow cytometry analysis, as well as sorting, sphere formation and western-blot assays, were perf...