Background and Purpose—The strategy of treatment of small unruptured intracranial aneurysms is complex because of their presumably low risk of rupture. A precise knowledge of the perioperative complications in this specific subgroup is mandatory. The purpose of this study was to compare the results of the endovascular treatment of aneurysms 3 mm and aneurysms 3 mm included in the Analysis of Tr...

Area based measures of deprivation are used for resource allocation and research. In both these uses there is continuing debate about the likely proportion of deprived people who would be missed if area based indices were used for interventions or targeting resources. This report uses the same source deprivation variables at area and individual levels to quantify the degree of deprivation heter...

This article focuses on computing in very small businesses (VSB). We have defined a business to be very small if it has less than 50 employees. They have been ignored in the mainstream MIS literature. However, given that small businesses constitute a significant portion of the U.S. economy and that computers are making widespread inroads into small businesses, a serious investigation is warrant...

Smart cards and embedded devices are well known for being low end platforms with limited resources and computing power. Thus they are not provided with embedded compilers which are said to be expensive and prefer using byte code interpreters rather than just in time or on the fly compilers. The following paper will challenge this idea and motivate the expected benefits of an embedded on the fly...

The ISO/IEC 29110 standard: Lifecycle profiles for Very Small Entities, provides several Process Reference Models applicable to the vast majority of very small entities (defined by the ISO as “an entity (enterprise, organization, department or project) having up to 25 people”) which do not develop critical software and share typical situational factors. An ISO/IEC 29110 pilot project has been e...

Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is a leading technique in medical diagnostic imaging. PET scanners are used to detect cancerous cells through the use of a positron emitting tracer that is ingested by the patient. The positron annihilates with an electron in the body producing a pair of 511keV gamma rays emitted in opposite directions. The gamma rays are sufficiently energetic to leave the pa...

Quantum fluctuations play a critical role in determining the steady-state and transient response of a laser when there is a small number of particles in the system. These fluctuations, and the fact that a lowest energy state of the system exists, can suppress lasing and enhance spontaneous emission around threshold. Dynamic switching between two characteristic system states can dominate the flu...