The thermal behavior of an arrayed‐waveguide grating made of a silica/polymer hybrid waveguide was examined. We experimentally confirmed that the hybrid waveguide is effective to decrease the temperature and polarization dependence of the center wavelength owing to the negative thermo‐optic coefficient of the refractive index and extremely low baking temperature of the polymer cladding. However, the detachment of the polymer cladding from the silica core, which took place either during a repeated heat cycle test or during long‐term storage in atmosphere, was a serious problem for practical use.

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Our data indicates that a distinct subset of MDS, demonstrating complement activation, has more severe cytopenias, which suggest complement activation contributes to the pathogenesis of autoimmune cytopenia in MDS.

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these days, distributed simulation system domain is growing increasingly in terms of data size and number of data transmission. Therefore, network control mechanism for data transmission in distributed system is required. For this, we replace transport layer of HLA-based distributed simulation system using Data Distribution Service (DDS) communication. In this paper, we pursue the network-controllable distributed simulation using DDS. We suggest HLA-DDS wrapper API which combines HLA APIs and DDS APIs and wraps them to be seen as one middleware API to users. HLA-DDS wrapper API consists of simulation service APIs from HLA and QoS-based network configuration APIs from DDS and some HLA-DDS data transformation APIs for interconnecting HLA data object and DDS data object. HLA-DDS wrapper is not only allow networkcontrollable distributed simulation systems but also preserve existing HLA-based distributed simulation system; because HLA-DDS wrapper API comply with HLA standard APIs.

1987 ACR criteria. Thirty-six (55.4%) of the 65 patient with seronegative RA failed to meet the 2010 classification criteria. In case of seropositive RA (n=343), 85 additional patients (24.8%) could be diagnosed as RA using new classification criteria. Conclusion. The new 2010 ACR/EULAR classification cri-teria enable physicians to diagnose more patients with early RA via the help of serology. However, the sensitivity for the diagnosis of seronegative RA is projected to decrease.

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