Vascular permeability—the essentials

Vascular permeability—the essentials

The vasculature, composed of vessels of different morphology and function, distributes blood to all tissues and maintains physiological tissue homeostasis. In pathologies, the vasculature is often affected by, and engaged in, the disease process. This may result in excessive formation of new, unstable, and hyperpermeable vessels with poor blood flow, which further promotes hypoxia and disease p...

Topic Essentials

An overview of TOPIC is provided, a knowledge-based text information system for the analysis of Germanlanguage texts. TOPIC supplies text condensates (summaries) on variable degrees of generality and makes available facts acquired from the texts. The presentation focuses on the major methodological principles underlying the design of TOPIC: a frame representation model that incorporates various...

PicoSAT Essentials

In this article we describe and evaluate optimized compact data structures for watching literals. Experiments with our SAT solver PicoSAT show that this low-level optimization not only saves memory, but also turns out to speed up the SAT solver considerably. We also discuss how to store proof traces compactly in memory and further unique features of PicoSAT including an aggressive restart sched...

Essentials of Clinical Supervision

Essentials of Dermatology