This paper discusses a statistical approach to static timing analysis. Delays of gates and wires are modeled by stochastic values instead of the triple best case, typical and worst case delay. This has the advantage of avoiding the overly pessimistic (optimistic) outcome of traditional worst (best) case calculations. The paper proposes a new scheme to perform the delay calculations with stochas...

Noise effects such as power supply and crosstalk noise can significantly impact the performance of deep submicrometer designs. Existing delay testing and timing analysis techniques cannot capture the effects of noise on the signal/cell delays. Therefore, these techniques cannot capture the worst case timing scenarios and the predicted circuit performance might not reflect the worst case circuit...

A graph G is said to be Hamiltonian-connected if there is a Hamiltonian path between every two distinct nodes of G. Let F denote the set of faulty nodes of G. Then, G is |F |-node Hamiltonianconnected if G−F is Hamiltonian-connected. We use K(d, t) to denote a WK-recursive network of level t, each of whose basic modules is a d-node complete graph. Compared with other networks, it is rather diff...

BACKGROUND Changes in central venous pressure (CVP) rather than absolute values may be used to guide fluid therapy in critically ill patients undergoing mechanical ventilation. We conducted a study comparing the changes in the CVP produced by an increase in PEEP and stroke volume variation (SVV) as indicators of fluid responsiveness. Fluid responsiveness was assessed by the changes in cardiac o...

A rod shaped, Gram-stain-negative, chemo-organotrophic, heterotrophic, strictly aerobic, non-gliding bacterium, designated strain PLR(T), was isolated from faeces of the mollusc Aplysia punctata (Mollusca, Gastropoda) that had been fed with green algae belonging to the genus Ulva. The novel strain was able to degrade ulvan, a polysaccharide extracted from green algae (Chlorophyta, Ulvophyceae)....

Platelet-lymphocyte ratio (PLR) is a hematological parameter which is investigated as a biomarker for prognosis in patients with breast cancer. Due to the controversial results from previous studies, we performed a meta-analysis. Databases of PubMed, Embase and Web of Science were searched to identify eligible studies. STATA version 12.0 was used for statistical analysis. Seven studies with 3,7...

This study was designed to explore the association between elevated platelet to lymphocyte ratio (PLR) and prognosis of patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) by meta-analysis. A total of 11 studies with 3,430 subjects were included and the combined hazard ratio (HR) and 95% confidence intervals (95% CI) were calculated. The data showed that elevated PLR predicted poor overall surviva...

BACKGROUND Recently, more and more studies investigated the association of inflammation parameters such as the Platelet Lymphocyte Ratio (PLR) and the prognosis of various cancers. However, the prognostic role of PLR in cancer remains controversial. METHODS We conducted a meta-analysis of published studies to evaluate the prognostic value of PLR in various cancers. In order to investigate the...

Multimedia applications in multihop wireless networks have great market potential. Multiple channels and multiple radios are commonly used for exploring multimedia transmissions in multihop wireless networks. Split transmission allows multiple channels attached to different radios simultaneously to be used, and so to achieve a fundamentally improved transmission capacity. The goal of this paper...

The Real-time Channel Administration Protocol (RCAP) provides control and administration services for the Tenet real-time protocol suite, a connection-oriented suite of network and transport layer protocols for realtime communication. RCAP performs per-channel reservation of network resources based on worst-case analysis to provide hard guarantees on delay, jitter, and packet loss bounds. It us...