This paper presents a concrete experiment in assembling components from different “protocol-aware” component frameworks such as Java/Jini (Sun), Corba 3.0 (Object Management Group), Enterprise JavaBeans (Sun) and our own framework called CLF (Coordination Language Facility). We describe how the CLF coordinator can be used to negotiate and perform distributed transactions across several componen...

Web servers such as Apache and web proxies like Squid support event logging using a common log format. The logs produced using these de-facto standard formats are invaluable to system administrators for trouble-shooting a server and tool writers to craft tools that mine the log files and produce reports and trends. The Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) does not have a common log format, and as ...

Objective Cervical spondylotic myelopathy (CSM) is a degenerative disorder leading to progressive decline in spinal cord function. laminoplasty (CLP) and cervical laminectomy with fusion (CLF) are standard treatments for multilevel CSM. However, it still unclear whether one procedure over the other provides better outcomes. Here, we performed comprehensive review of published articles that comp...

AIM To investigate whether serum thymosin beta4 can provide diagnostic or prognostic information in liver failure patients caused by chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection. METHODS Serum thymosin beta4 levels were measured in 30 patients with acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF), 31 patients with chronic liver failure (CLF), 30 patients with compensated liver cirrhosis (CR) and 32 patient...

BACKGROUND Chocolate is rich in flavonoids that have been shown to be of benefit in disparate conditions including cardiovascular disease and cancer. The effect of polyphenol rich chocolate in subjects with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) has not been studied previously. METHODS We conducted a double blinded, randomised, clinical pilot crossover study comparing high cocoa liquor/polyphenol ric...

BACKGROUND Previous studies have confirmed that serum concentrations of actin-free Gc globulin (Af-Gc globulin) may provide prognostic information in patients withacute liver failure (ALF). However, until now the relation between plasma Af-Gc globulin levels and chronic or acute-on-chronic liver failure (CLF or ACLF) caused by HBV is unknown. METHODS Plasma Af-Gc globulin in 56 patients with ...

This paper proposes a dynamic controller structure and a systematic design procedure for stabilizing discrete-time hybrid systems. The proposed approach is based on the concept of control Lyapunov functions (CLFs), which, when available, can be used to design a stabilizing state-feedback control law. In general, the construction of a CLF for hybrid dynamical systems involving both continuous an...

Eukaryotic genomes are littered with transposable elements (TEs)—“selfish” genetic entities capable of increasing copy numbers through transposition to account for large fractions of the nuclear DNA. To minimize the mutagenic effects of transposition, host organisms have evolved various mechanisms to repress TE-encoded genes (TEGs) both transcriptionally through chromatin modifications and post...

In the title compound, C(13)H(9)ClF(3)N, the quinoline ring system makes a dihedral angle of 88.8 (2)° with the cyclo-propyl ring.

The properties of some types noncovalent interactions formed by triplet diphenylcarbene (DPC3) have been investigated means density functional theory (DFT) calculations and quantum atoms in molecule (QTAIM) studies. DPC3···LA (LA = AlF3, SiF4, PF5, SF2, ClF) complexes analyzed from their equilibrium geometries, binding energies, electron density. triel bond the DPC3···AlF3 complex exhibits a pa...