s June 9 turned into June 10, crowds kept surging toward the Hachiko area west of Shibuya station. Shibuya has long been a boisterous focal point for Tokyo youth, but this was something else. Japan had just won their Group H match against Russia, and Tokyo was celebrating as if the World Cup was theirs. The honking horns and chants drowned out the megaphones of the massively outnumbered police....

OBJECTIVE To investigate the stages of progression in drug involvement among adolescents and adults in Saudi Arabia. METHODS One hundred and one consecutive male patients (91 adults and 10 adolescents), with substance abuse or dependence according to DSM-IV criteria, admitted to Al-Amal Hospital in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, during July and August 2002 for treatment, were included in the study. Al...

Background. Perineural invasion (PNI) is an adverse prognostic histologic finding and increases the risk of local recurrence and metastasis. Objective. We aimed to determine if dual immunohistochemical (IHC) staining with S-100 and AE1/3 would increase the detection of PNI on nonmelanoma skin cancers (NMSCs). Methods. We collected 45 specimens of NMSCs in which there was clinical suspicion for ...

We present unequivocal evidence for a huge (≈ 80 × 100 × 100 Mpc 3) superstructure at redshift z = 0.27 in the 3-D distribution of radio galaxies from the TONS08 sample, confirming tentative evidence for such a structure from the 7C red-shift survey (7CRS). A second, newly discovered superstructure is also less securely found at redshift 0.35 (of dimensions ≈ 100 × 100 × 100 Mpc 3). We present ...

The oligomeric state and function of band 3, purified by sulfhydryl affinity chromatography in reduced Triton X-100, was investigated. Size exclusion high-performance liquid chromatography showed that a homogeneous population of band 3 dimers could be purified from whole erythrocyte membranes. The elution profile of band 3 purified from membranes that had been stripped of its cytoskeleton befor...

Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines (BLAS-3) 1] are building blocks to solve a lot of numerical problems (Cholesky factorization, Gram-Schmidt ortonormalization, LU decomposition,...). Their eecient implementation on a given parallel machine is a key issue for the maximal exploitation of the system's computational power. In this work we refer to a massively parallel processing SIMD machine (the AP...

100 Gigabit Ethernet over backplane is a subject of the current IEEE P802.3bj standardization effort. The 4 x 25 Gb/s design presents significant challenges to today's technology and several new methodologies were developed for the task. We explain the philosophy driving the design of the standard, present a summary of problems solved, and provide details on the most important methodologies. In...