OBJECTIVE Studies have linked vasomotor symptoms (VMS) to markers of cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk, yet few have considered clinical cardiovascular events. Data suggest that associations may depend upon the age that symptoms occur. We examined associations between VMS and cardiovascular events and endothelial function, considering age of symptom onset. METHODS The Women's Ischemia Syndrom...

OBJECTIVE This study aims to determine the efficacy and tolerability of omega-3 fatty acids in reducing vasomotor symptoms (VMS) frequency and bother in perimenopausal and postmenopausal women. METHODS This study was a 12-week, three-by-two factorial, randomized controlled trial. Eligible women were randomized to a double-blind comparison of omega-3 (n = 177) or placebo (n = 178) capsules, an...

One of the principal goals of Cloud Computing is the outsourcing of the hosting of data and applications, thus enabling a per-usage model of computation. Data and applications may be packaged in virtual machines (VM), which are themselves hosted by nodes, i.e., physical machines (PM). Several frameworks have been designed to manage VMs on pools of PMs; most of them, however, do not efficiently ...

VMSbase is an R package devised to manage, process and visualize information about fishing vessels activity (provided by the vessel monitoring system--VMS) and catches/landings (as reported in the logbooks). VMSbase is primarily conceived to be user-friendly; to this end, a suite of state-of-the-art analyses is accessible via a graphical interface. In addition, the package uses a database platf...

Objectives: The study used three-dimensional finite element analysis to evaluate the effects of total deformation and Von Mises stresses (VMS) different shaped non-carious cervical lesions (NCCLs) occluso-gingival dimensions (OGD) maxillary premolars when restored with restorative materials. Methods: Maxillary premolar was scanned utilizing 3D-laser scanning produce a 3D digital geometrical mod...

We advocate a novel approach to grid computing that is based on a combination of “classic” operating system level virtual machines (VMs) and middleware mechanisms to manage VMs in a distributed environment. The abstraction is that of dynamically instantiated and mobile VMs that are a combination of traditional OS processes (the VM monitors) and files (the VM state). We give qualitative argument...

Mode-seeking algorithms (e.g., mean-shift) constitute a class of powerful non-parametric clustering methods, but they are slow. We present VMS, a dual-tree based variational EM framework for mode-seeking that greatly accelerates performance. VMS has a number of pleasing properties: it generalizes across different mode-seeking algorithms, it does not have typical homoscedasticity constraints on ...

Current virtualization technologies enable hosting of a large number of Virtual Machines (VMs) on a common physical host. The hypervisor interconnects these VMs via Virtual Networks (VNs). These VNs underlie the same security requirements as physical networks. Network elements such as stateful firewalls contribute in enforcing this security. With the advent of stateful firewalls on the hypervis...

BACKGROUND Conservation of marine ecosystems will require a holistic understanding of fisheries with concurrent spatial patterns of biodiversity. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS Using data from the UK Government Vessel Monitoring System (VMS) deployed on UK-registered large fishing vessels we investigate patterns of fisheries activity on annual and seasonal scales. Analysis of VMS data shows t...

BACKGROUND There is no easy road map for venous malformations (VMs) of the head and neck according to which treatment modality can be chosen. The purpose of this study was to identify different types of VMs of the head and neck based on clinical, histopathology, MRI, and venography findings that help in specification of different treatment modalities. METHODS Sixty-nine patients with VMs of t...