BACKGROUND Increased somatostatin receptor (SSTR) expression in patients with undifferentiated nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) has been demonstrated with receptor autoradiography, (111) In-Octreotide scintigraphy, and (68) Ga-DOTA-TOC positron emission tomography (PET)/CT imaging. We sought to compare and correlate the uptake of fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) and DOTA-NOC in undifferentiated NPC to as...

With the growing complexity in consumer embedded products, new tendencies forecast heterogeneous Multi-Processor SystemsOn-Chip (MPSoCs) consisting of complex integrated components communicating with each other at very high-speed rates. Intercommunication requirements of MPSoCs made of hundreds of cores will not be feasible using a single shared bus or a hierarchy of buses due to their poor sca...

Multivariate statistical process monitoring techniques are applied to pilot-plant, cell culture data for the purpose of fault detection and diagnosis. Data from 23 batches, 20 normal operating conditions (NOC) and three abnormal, were available. A PCA model was constructed from 19 NOC batches, while the remaining NOC batch was used for model validation. Subsequently, the model was used to succe...

Portable electronic devices will be limited to available energy of existing battery chemistries for the foreseeable future. However, system-on-chips (SoCs) used in these devices are under a demand to offer more functionality and increased battery life. A difficult problem in SoC design is providing energy-efficient communication between its components while maintaining the required performance....

Modern Network-on-Chip (NoC) links consume a significant fraction of the total NoC power, e.g., one study has shown that they consume up to 60% of total power and that this fraction is apparently growing. We present two algorithms for power reduction in NoC links. We first present Parity Routing (PaR), a novel method to add redundant parity information to packets, while minimizing the number of...

Many-core processor architectures are becoming mainstream. With the many-core trend, Network-on-Chip (NoC) has become the de facto on-chip communication fabric, replacing traditional bus-based architectures. Targeting thousands of cores in near future many-core architectures, large-scale NoC designs need to be modeled and evaluated fast and accurately to understand their performance characteris...

Since 1998, the Therapeutic Products Directorate (TPD) has had a policy termed the Notice of Compliance with conditions (NOC/c) in order to allow earlier marketing of promising drugs for serious conditions before the drugs have definitively demonstrated clinical efficacy. Drugs approved under the NOC/c must undergo post-marketing trials to show clinical benefits. The reasons that some drugs rec...

Network-on-Chip (NoC) is proposed as a new scalable architecture to address the future design challenges of system-ona-chip (SoC). As current verification techniques for on-chip communication algorithms are typically complicated tasks including many hardware modules and software routines, verifying the algorithms themselves is almost impossible. Having the incentive for simplifying verification...

Today one of the most important challenges in HPC is the development of computers with a low power consumption. In this context, recently, new embedded many-core systems have emerged. One of them is Kalray. Unlike other many-core architectures, Kalray is not a co-processor (self-hosted). One interesting feature of the Kalray architecture is the Network on Chip (NoC) connection. Habitually, the ...