Percutaneous balloon pericardiotomy for patients with recurrent pericardial effusion: using a novel double-balloon technique with one long and one short balloon

Percutaneous balloon pericardiotomy is effective and less invasive for the treatment of recurrent pericardial effusion. This study suggests that the double-balloon method with 1 longer and 1 shorter balloon is the procedure of choice for percutaneous balloon pericardiotomy.     

Twofold Mur's first-order ABC in the FDTD method

In this paper, it is shown that the reflection error of Mur's first-order absorbing boundary condition (ABC) can be canceled effectively by applying the ABC twice to an electromagnetic (EM) field on two diagonally neighboring nodes on the x-t, y-t and t-t planes. Following this idea, we have developed a twofold Mur's first-order ABC (TMFABC), which is efficient to absorb both propagative and evanescent EM waves and very convenient for implementation to multilayered structures. TMFABC improves Mur's first-order ABC more effectively at lower frequencies. This is very important because most energy of a high-speed pulse is concentrated at lower frequencies     

Multicluster,mobile, multimedia radio network

A multi-cluster, multi-hop packet radio network architecture for wireless adaptive mobile information systems is presented. The proposed network supports multimedia traffic and relies on both time division and code division access schemes. This radio network is not supported by a wired infrastructure as conventional cellular systems are. Thus, it can be instantly deployed in areas with no infrastructure at all. By using a distributed clustering algorithm, nodes are organized into clusters. The clusterheads act as local coordinators to resolve channel scheduling, perform power measurement/control, maintain time division frame synchronization, and enhance the spatial reuse of time slots and codes. Moreover, to guarantee bandwidth for real time traffic, the architecture supports virtual circuits and allocates bandwidth to circuits at call setup time. The network is scalable to large numbers of nodes, and can handle mobility. Simulation experiments evaluate the performance of the proposed scheme in static and mobile environments.This work was supported by the U.S. Department of Justice/Federal Bureau of Investigation, ARPA/CSTO under Contract J-FBI-93-112 Computer Aided Design of High Performance Wireless Networked Systems.     

High-speed Modulation of InGaAs: Sb-GaAs-GaAsP quantum-well vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers with 1.27-/spl mu/m emission wavelength

1.27-/spl mu/m InGaAs: Sb-GaAs-GaAsP vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers (VCSELs) were grown by metal-organic chemical vapor deposition and exhibited excellent performance and temperature stability. The threshold current changes from 1.8 to 1.1 mA and the slope efficiency falls less than /spl sim/35% as the temperature raised from room temperature to 70/spl deg/C. With a bias current of only 5 mA, the 3-dB modulation frequency response was measured to be 8.36 GHz, which is appropriate for 10-Gb/s operation. The maximal bandwidth is measured to be 10.7 GHz with modulation current efficiency factor (MCEF) of /spl sim/5.25 GHz/(mA)/sup 1/2/. These VCSELs also demonstrate high-speed modulation up to 10 Gb/s from 25/spl deg/C to 70/spl deg/C.     

氧化锆增韧陶瓷的相变及相变增韧

本文阐述了氧化锆增韧陶瓷（ＺＴＣ）的相变增韧机理，并探讨了热处理工艺对ＺＴＣ的相变及显微组织的影响规律。     

Importance of the Arg-Gly-Asp triplet in human thrombin for maintenance of structure and function

Site-directed mutagenesis was employed to assess the importance of the Arg-Gly-Asp triplet that comprises residues 197 to 199 in the B-chain of thrombin. Properties of the R197E and the D199E variants were compared with those of zeta-thrombin and the inactive S205A variant wherein the active site Ser is replaced by Ala. Relative to zeta-thrombin, the R197E thrombin variant under the assay conditions used exhibits 26% activity toward a small chromogenic substrate, 13% activity in the activation of protein C in the presence of thrombomodulin, < 3% activity in processing fibrinogen, and 1% activity in inducing platelet activation. Thus, the substrate specificity of thrombin was altered by the R197-->E replacement. The D199E variant was essentially inactive. It exhibited only 0.02% of the activity of thrombin toward the chromogenic substrate and its reactivity toward the active site-directed alkylating agent D-Phe-Pro-Arg-CH2Cl was 10,000-fold lower than that of thrombin. Like the inactive S205A thrombin variant, the D199E variant antagonized the interactions of thrombin with hirudin and thrombomodulin, but was a less effective antagonist. The dependence of the antagonism of the thrombin-thrombomodulin interaction on the concentration of D199E thrombin variant provided evidence suggesting the presence of two or more domains in thrombin that independently interact with their counterparts in thrombomodulin. Although the S205A thrombin variant antagonized the action of thrombin on platelets no such activity could be demonstrated for the D199E variant in the concentration range studied (< 800 nm). Comparison of the circular dichroism spectra of zeta-thrombin, the D199E, R197E, and S205A variants indicated that subtle differences in conformation exist between the D199E variant and the other thrombins. These differences in conformation might well account for the altered behavior of the D199E variant with respect to its interactions toward thrombomodulin, hirudin, and platelets.     

Hg_（1－x）Cd_xTe的扫描光致发光研究

用傅里叶变换红外扫描光致发光方法研究了Ｈｇ１－ｘＣｄｘＴｅ体单晶样品，该方法可直接得到ＨｇＣｄＴｅ晶片组分的二维平面分布，并可得到辐射复合在复合机制中所占比重的平面分布，以及晶体中非平衡载流子寿命的分布     

特大型油罐整体一次性控爆拆除

本文介绍了特大型油罐整体一次性控制爆破拆除方案及其实施方法，这一方法与水压爆破拆除和常规钻孔爆破拆除方法相比，具有工效高，安全性好的突出优点。