 Cloud computing is becoming increasingly widespread and sophisticated. A key feature of cloud computing is elasticity, which allows the provisioning and de-provisioning of computing resources on demand, via auto-scaling. Auto-scaling techniques are diverse, and involve various components at the infrastructure, platform and software levels. Auto-scaling also overlaps with other quality attribu...

AUTO–positive end-expiratory pressure (auto-PEEP) is well described in patients with expiratory airflow obstruction, including those who require one-lung ventilation. Unfortunately, detecting auto-PEEP with most anesthesia ventilators is difficult. We report an unusual presentation of auto-PEEP during one-lung ventilation in which a reliable method of confirming lung separation quickly directed...

In the past decade, the auto industries of developing countries have been transformed by trade and investment liberalisation policies and the global expansion of the auto industry. The protective instruments (tariffs, quantitative restrictions, investment controls, etc.) that once shielded most developing countries auto industries from international competition have been partially dismantled. H...

BACKGROUND Although human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs) have been tested in ischemic cardiomyopathy, few studies exist in chronic nonischemic dilated cardiomyopathy (NIDCM). OBJECTIVES The authors conducted a randomized comparison of safety and efficacy of autologous (auto) versus allogeneic (allo) bone marrow-derived hMSCs in NIDCM. METHODS Thirty-seven patients were randomized to either ...

We retrospectively analyzed infectious complications during tandem high-dose chemotherapy and autologous stem cell transplantation (HDCT/auto-SCT) in children and adolescents with high-risk or recurrent solid tumors. A total of 324 patients underwent their first HDCT/auto-SCT between October 2004 and September 2014, and 283 of them proceeded to their second HDCT/auto-SCT (a total of 607 HDCT/au...

Auto ownership is a critical mediating link in the connection between the built environment and travel behavior: the built environment presumably influences auto ownership, which in turn impacts travel behavior. However, the way in which individual elements of the built environment affect auto-ownership choices is far from understood. Further, residential self-selection may confound the interac...