We study the effects of non-sterilized intervention on a spot foreign exchange (forex) rate using a multi-period game-theoretical model which involves an unspeci?ed number of competitive traders, a ?nite number of strategic ...

We use data on Turkish immigrants in two European welfare states, Denmark and Germany, and data on Turks at home. Unlike in most studies of immigrant poverty, we thus control for the differences in immigrant composition. ...

Starting in late 1980's, Bill Timberlake and associates conducted a series of experiments on anticipatory contrast which showed that rats’ feeding decisions were regulated by the nutritive value of currently ingested and ...

News camera operators are among the first responders to crises, emergencies, and other human suffering. This study is an attempt in the literature to explore trauma exposure and coping in news camera operators who are ...

Design of nanogratings with graded heights is proposed for solar-cell applications. The designed structure gives rise to absorption enhancement in solar-cells by reducing the reflection losses and focusing the incoming ...

Aim There is little evidence to support choice of technique and configuration for stapled anastomoses after right hemicolectomy and ileocaecal resection. This study aimed to determine the relationship between stapling ...

Purpose: To evaluate the postoperative high-order aberration differences of femto-LASIK surgery in 6.5 and 7?mm optic zones. Patients and Methods: We retrospectively reviewed 80 eyes of 40 patients with myopia or myopia ...

Facile charge transport is desired for many applications of organic semiconductors (OSCs). To take advantage of high-throughput screening methodologies for the discovery of novel OSCs, parameters relevant to charge transport ...

Despite remarkable advancement in the past decades, heart-related defects are still prone to progress irreversibly and can eventually lead to heart failure. A personalized extracellular matrix-based bioartificial heart ...

OBJECTIVES:D-dimer is a fibrin degradation product, a small protein fragment present in the blood after a blood clot is degraded by fibrinolysis. The determination of D-dimer concentration may ...

Micro-Doppler signatures can be used not only to recognize different targets, such as vehicles, helicopters, animals, and people, but also to classify varying activities, e.g., walking, running, creeping, and crawling. For ...

In this paper, hierarchical modulation is used in conjunction with maximum-weight scheduling to achieve lower transmission delays. Via hierarchical modulation, the scheduled user has the option to transmit to two users ...

In this paper the broadcast relay channel, where the source communicates with multiple destinations with the help of a single relay is studied. Five different transmission protocols, direct transmission, multihop (MH), ...

Outage probability in an energy harvesting (EH) block-fading communication system is studied in the finitehorizon online setting. First, the offline version of the problem is considered, and formulated as a mixed integer ...

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are envisioned to be utilized in many application areas, such as critical infrastructure monitoring, and therefore, WSN nodes are potential targets for adversaries. Network lifetime is one ...

In communication systems, hierarchical modulation is used to increase system robustness and to send different information flows simultaneously. However, when used in cooperative communication systems, hierarchical modulation ...

Rectal lesions, benign or malignant, are one of the most encountered clinical entities in general surgery departments. Technological breakthroughs in local excision techniques have been occurring such as transanal endoscopic ...

Background/Aims: The aim of this study was to observe the relationship between the gene expression profiles of tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-alpha and endothelin (EDN)-1 and obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). Methods: A prospective, ...

What's already known? Prenatal diagnosis of lysosomal storage diseases is important to avoid high morbidity and mortality. What does this study add? Enzyme analysis may be alone used safely for the prenatal diagnosis of ...

Objective The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of relatively novel approach of application of polychromatic light waves on flap survival of experimental musculocutaneous flap model and to investigate efficacy ...