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Single-User Performance of Uplink DS-CDMA using Relay-Assisted Diversity [PDF]
In a wireless system with distributed mobile users, several mobile users may cooperate with each other in order to achieve the transmit diversity. In this contribution we investigate the single-user performance of an uplink direct-sequence code-division ...
Lie-liang Yang +5 more
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This work is supported by COMPETE: POCI-01-0145-FEDER-007043 and FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnología within the projects UID/CEC/00319/2013 and Post-Doc scholarship SFRH/BPD/102696/2014 (Angelo Costa) This work is partially supported by the MINECO/FEDER TIN 2015-65515-C4-1-R.
Ângelo Costa +3 more
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Video assisted thoracic surgery for treatment of pneumothorax and lung resections: systematic review of randomised clinical trials [PDF]
<b>Objectives</b> To determine if video assisted thoracic surgery is associated with better clinical outcomes than thoracotomy for three common procedures: surgery for pneumothorax, minor resections, and lobectomy.
Sedrakyan, Artyom +7 more
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Context: Infertility is a condition whereby a married woman is unable to get pregnant despite having frequent, unprotected sex for at least a year. This has been an area of medicine in which health care practitioners had limited means to help their ...
Olaolorunpo Olorunfemi +4 more
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Sperm retrieval techniques for assisted reproduction
Different surgical methods such as PESA, MESA, TESA, TESE and micro-TESE have been developed to retrieve spermatozoa from either the epididymis or the testis according to the type of azoospermia, i.e., obstructive or non-obstructive.
Sandro C. Esteves +2 more
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Purpose. Numerous studies have described the presence of crosstalk between trophoblasts and macrophages and the critical role it plays in recurrent miscarriage (RM).
Jing Zhang, Yu Tao, Renfei Cai, Yao Wang
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An assistant expert system: assisting assistors in assisting taxpayers [PDF]
The US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) employs 5000 assistors to answer telephone inquiries from taxpayers. The author describes the design and development of an expert system, the Taxpayer Service Assistant (TSA), that helps assistors provide advice to taxpayers on tax law topics.
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Computer assisted knee replacement surgery : is the movement mainstream?
The first computer-assisted Total Knee Arthroplasty (TKA) was performed in 1997. The FDA approved computer assisted knee arthroplasty systems used in the early 2000s.
Deep, Kamal +3 more
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ABSTRACT Primary lung carcinomas and bronchial carcinoid tumors (BC) are very rare malignancies in childhood. While typical BC and mucoepidermoid carcinomas are mostly low‐grade, localized tumors with a more favorable prognosis than in adults, necessitating avoidance of overtreatment, adenocarcinomas of the lung are often diagnosed at advanced disease ...
Michael Abele +19 more
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