BACKGROUND Bronchiolitis, the most common indication for hospitalization of young children, is associated with subsequent asthma. Blood eosinophilia is associated with increased severity of asthma, but it is unclear if eosinophilia is associated with severity of illness in bronchiolitis. We hypothesized that blood eosinophilia is associated with unfavorable short-term outcomes of bronchiolitis ...

This paper presents a block-based ciphering scheme that employs the 2D discretized chaotic Standard map (CSM) in three different operation modes. The employed modes include electronic codebook (ECB), output feedback (OFB) and cipher block chaining (CBC) In presented CSM with OFB CBC, initiation vector (IV) is as primary secret key. CBC has two merits. first merit ability of ECB, to encipher ima...

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The surgical option which should be reserved for patients with BRCA1/2 mutation and breast cancer diagnosis is still debated. Several aspects should be considered before the surgical decision-making: the risk of ipsilateral breast recurrence (IBR), the risk of contralateral breast cancer (CBC), the potential survival benefit of prophylactic mastectomy, and the possible risk factors that could e...

The generalized Zakharov–Shabat systems with complex-valued Cartan elements and the systems studied by Caudrey, Beals and Coifman (CBC systems) and their gauge equivalent are studies. This includes: the properties of fundamental analytical solutions (FAS) for the gauge-equivalent to CBC systems and the minimal set of scattering data; the description of the class of nonlinear evolutionary equati...

Fallbasiertes Planen kann durch die Integration von fallbasierten und generativen Techniken realisiert werden. Prodigy/Analogy (Carnegie Mellon University), CAPlan/CbC und PARIS (beide Universität Kaiserslautern) sind Beispiele für solche Systeme. Hierbei werden Planungsfälle aufbewahrt und ausgewählt, um die Suche, die ein generativer Problemlöser durchführt, zu steuern. Während Prodigy/Analog...

We present an update of the Pelican MAC function, called Pelican 2.0. Both versions have the Alred construction [5] and are based on Rijndael. they are a factor 2.5 more efficient than CBC-MAC with Rijndael, while providing a comparable claimed security level. The difference between Pelican 2.0 and the original version is that the initial value changes from the all-zero string to another consta...

In this paper, the authors discuss their experiences implementing, operating, and optimizing a content delivery network for Canada’s largest news website, that of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). The site receives over one million unique visitors per day. Although CBC uses the Akamai Aqua Platform (formerly EdgeSuite) as its content delivery network of choice, the lessons described ...