BACKGROUND Besides magnetic resonance imaging, dual energy X-ray absorptiometry (DXA) seems the most reliable tool to evaluate body composition and is often considered as the gold standard in clinical practice. Bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) could provide a simpler, portative, and less expensive alternative. Because the body composition assessment by BIA is device-dependent, the aim of ...

A huge number of application scenarios would greatly benefit from a group communication service in the Internet, but the existing IP Multicast solution still lacks global availability due to several technical and political issues [1]. As a consequence, Application-Layer Multicast (ALM) [2] arose as a promising solution to overcome this missing global multicast deployment. In ALM, forwarding fun...

http://dx.doi.org/10.3343/alm.2015.35.2.281 www.annlabmed.org 281 This erratum is being published to correct the printing error on pages 82 and 88 of the article entitled ‘Evaluation of the Impact of Automated Specimen Inoculation, Using Previ Isola, on the Quality of and Technical Time for Stool Cultures’ by Alexander Mischnik, Marlies Trampe, and Stefan Zimmermann in Ann Lab Med 2015;35:82-8,...

Asset Liability Management (ALM) in the next generation should maximize profits within this limitation. To avoid potential failures of the current ALM process, the following must be achieved: 1) realistic accounting by each transaction, 2) market rates and corporate credit rating scenario paths proceed with time, 3) evaluation along each scenario for at least several years at daily resolution. ...

The paper presents the syntax and semantics of an action language ALM. The language is used for representation of knowledge about dynamic systems. It extends action language AL by allowing definitions of new objects (actions and fluents) in terms of other, previously defined, objects. This, together with the modular structure of the new language leads to more elegant and concise representations...

Human parvovirus B19 infection is occasionally associated with acute lymphocytic myocarditis (ALM). Three infants with B19 virus-associated ALM were followed up clinically, histologically, and immunovirologically. Each infant had B19 virus DNA in the blood or B19 virus-specific IgM antibodies. Two infants with postnatal infection recovered after immunosuppressive therapy. The third infant with ...

Recently a number of application-layer multicast (ALM) protocols have been proposed as a promising alternative to deploying multicast services in the unicast-only Internet. Current ALM protocols work very well for low data-rate applications but can suffer from link-level load imbalance, and consequently link congestions, when applied to high data-rate applications. This work addresses this prob...

Introduction: Leiomyoma are benign mesenchymal tumors presenting as the most common uterine neoplasm. Atypical leiomyoma (ALM), a nomenclature given in WHO classification, is a leiomyoma variant showing histopathological features ranging between a benign leiomyoma and leiomyosarcoma (LMS). It is a rare smooth muscle neoplasm detected mostly on histological examination in myomectomy and hysterec...

In January 2007, a 74-year-old male was admitted to our hospital for treatment of an adenoma-like dysplastic lesion (ALM). He had a four-year history of ulcerative colitis. Endoscopic findings revealed that a protruded lesion with an approximate size of 3 cm at the splenic flexure was surrounded by pseudopolyps. Lifting of the tumor was poor despite injection of normal saline around it. Therefo...

Over the last few years, application-layer multicast (ALM) has emerged as a plausible solution for supporting group-oriented applications. However, ALM suffers from inefficiency due to its reliance on end hosts and potentially significant changes at both the server and client applications. In this paper, we propose an approach, PALM (Passive Application Layer Multicast), that removes the need f...