Mobile Cloud Computing enables the migration of services to edge Internet. Therefore, high performance computing clusters are widely deployed improve computational capabilities such environments. However, they prone failures and need analytical models predict their behavior in order deliver desired quality-of-service quality-of-experience mobile users. This article proposes a 3D model problem-s...

BACKGROUND: The aim of our study was to analyze diagnostic results, different treatment modalities, and the outcome of patients with breast abscesses treated at our institution in a multi-modality breast team, to determine whether minimally invasive treatments are successful. METHODS: 110 patients with mastitis and suspected breast abscesses at our institution between January 2000 and end of S...

OBJECTIVE To analyze characteristics, clinical evolution and surgical techniques of oroantral communication (OAC). STUDY DESIGN We included all patients operated at the University Central Hospital (Oviedo, Spain) between 1996 and 2007. The variables assessed were age, sex, medical history, OAC size, sinus disease, surgical technique, duration of hospitalization and post-surgical evolution. ...

OBJECTIVE To validate a quality of life scale, EuroQoL, on stroke patients. METHOD 67 patients were scored simultaneously for EuroQoL-5 Dimensions (EQ-5D), NIH Stroke Scale (NIHSS) and modified Barthel Index (mBI). Pearson test was used to correlate each scale. Additionally, 31 patients were examined by two independent evaluators on the same day through application of EQ-5D. Kappa statistics ...

We give a polynomial time, (1+ )-approximation algorithm for the traveling repairman problem (TRP) in the Euclidean plane, on weighted planar graphs, and on weighted trees. This improves on the known quasi-polynomial time approximation schemes for these problems. The algorithm is based on a simple technique that reduces the TRP to what we call the segmented TSP. Here, we are given numbers l1, ....

Recent research in queuing focuses more on the impacts of heavy-tailed service times, neglecting the fact that stochastic inter-arrival times are often heavy-tailed as well. We investigate the impacts of heavy-tailed gamma inter-arrival time distributions on the waiting-time distribution of a GI/G/2 queue, and simulate the tail properties of waiting-time distribution using real data.

Jianying Yang Department of Science, Yanshan University Qinhuangdao 066004, China E-mail: [email protected] Xianyun Meng Department of Science, Yanshan University Qinhuangdao 066004, China Weiyan Guo Acheng collage, Harbin Normal University Yanqin Guan Department of Science, Yanshan University Qinhuangdao 066004, China Taotao Wang Department of Science, Yanshan University Qinhuangdao 0660...

A 22-year-old man was hospitalized with a sternoclavicular joint (SCJ) dislocation caused by a traffic accident. Surgical reduction and fixation of the SCJ were performed using a T-plate. SCJ dislocation is rare, accounting for less than 1% of all dislocations, and is usually treated conservatively, although severe cases may require surgery. Surgery typically involves joint reduction and fixati...

Five out of 149 patients (3%) who received an intraorbital implant to prevent or treat the disfiguring symptoms associated with the postenucleation socket syndrome developed intraorbital conjunctival cysts. All five patients had received a secondary implant two 14 months previously. After excision of the cysts four patients required additional surgery for lack of conjunctiva and/or recurrent cy...