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Biosensor techniques are based on biospecific interaction between the biological parts of biosensor with the analyte. In biosensor construction, antibodies are usually used for the detection of analytes such as microorganism, because of very strong and highly specific interaction. The disadvantages of this assay are a long time needed for antibody isolation and purification as well as difficult re

Twenty parents of boys (ages 2-14 years) hospitalized for hypospadias repair in a pediatric surgery department in Sweden, were interviewed concerning their experience when their child was hospitalized. A qualitative analysis of the interviews indicated that the most important issue to the parents was finding security at the hospital. Parents manifested one of three different strategies that enable

Motivated by applications in high-dimensional settings, we suggest a test of the hypothesis H-0 that two sampled distributions are identical. It is assumed that two independent datasets are drawn from the respective populations, which may be very general. In particular, the distributions may be multivariate or infinite-dimensional, in the latter case representing, for example, the distributions of

New basis sets of the atomic natural orbital (ANO) type have been developed for the first, second, and third row transition metal atoms. The ANOs have been obtained from the average density matrix of the ground and lowest excited states of the atom, the positive and negative ions, and the atom in an electric field. Scalar relativistic effects are included through the use of a Douglas-Kroll-Hess Ha

The optimisation of image quality vs. radiation dose is an important task in medical imaging. To obtain maximum validity of the optimisation, it must be based on clinical images. Images at different dose levels can then either be obtained by collecting patient images at the different dose levels sought to investigate-including additional exposures and permission from an ethical committee-or by man

Test scheduling and Test Access Mechanism (TAM)design are two important tasks in the development of a System-on-Chip (SOC)test solution.Previous test scheduling techniques assume a dedicated designed TAM which have the advantage of high exibility in the scheduling process. However,hardware verhead for implementing the TAM and additional routing is required of the TAMs.In this paper we propose a te

In marked contrast with the ideal error-free feedback assumption that is common in the literature, practical systems are likely to have severely bandwidth-limited, error-prone feedback channels. We consider the scenario where feedback from the receiver is used by the transmitter to select the best antenna, out of many available antennas, for data transmission. Feedback errors cause the transmitter

In this paper error bounds for truncated balanced linear time-varying systems in discrete time are obtained. The analysis is based on direct calculations with the time-varying observability and controllability Lyapunov inequalities. The obtained bounds in the induced l-script -norm generalize well-known error-bound formulas for time-invariant systems. The case of time-varying state-space dimension

The present study demonstrates the use of a simple and versatile melt-compounding route to prepare NaClO4-containing poly(ethylene oxide) PEO/clay nanocomposites combining excellent mechanical properties with a competitive level of the ionic conductivity. The nanostructure and the resulting thermal, mechanical and conductive properties of the salt-containing PEO/clay nanocomposites were found to b

We report on large-scale ah initio multiconfiguration Hartree-Fock calculations for the UV0.01 multiplet, 2s(2)2p(2)P(J)-2s2p(2 4) P-J', in N III. The resulting transition probabilities agree very well with recent semiempirical calculations, and the lifetimes for two of the three upper levels agree with experiments. The deviation for the third level is discussed. Comparisons made with the highest

Atrial fibrillation (AF), the most common atrial arrhythmia, has a complex aetiology and causes relevant morbidity and mortality due to different mechanisms, including but not limited to stroke, heart failure, and tachy- or bradyarrhythmia. Current therapeutic options (rate control, rhythm control, antithrombotic therapy, 'upstream therapy') only prevent a part of this burden of disease. Several n

While working on a check-list of the Swedish species of Hieracium L. sect. Hieracium and H. sect. Vulgata (Griseb.) Willk. & Lange (now available at www.nrm.se/fbo/chk/ttlista/welcome.htmi), I found that three of the names in current usage were illegitimate, two being later homonyms and one superfluous when published. In this paper avowed substitutes (replacement names) for these names are pro

The FFT processor is used for OFDM-based UWB wireless communication system. 64/128 points FFT is employed in the processor by using mixed-radix algorithm to meet the requirement of different UWB systems. The FFT processor, using the pipelined parallel structure, the register reusing architecture and the shift-add algorithm, can reach a device utilization of 100% and a 500MS/s throughput rate(FPGA

In this paper a wave splitting technique is applied to a homogeneous Timoshenko beam. The purpose is to obtain a diagonal equation in terms of the split fields. These fields are calculated in the time domain from an appropriate set of boundary conditions. The fields along the beam are represented as a time convolution of Green functions with the excitation. The Green functions do not depend on the

This thesis deals with flexibility in the design of real-time control systems. By dynamic resource scheduling it is possible to achieve on-line adaptability and increased control performance under resource constraints. The approach requires simulation tools for control and real-time systems co-design. One approach to achieve flexibility in the run-time scheduling of control tasks is feedback sched