BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Stroke thrombolysis is highly time-critical, but data on long-term effects of small reductions in treatment delays have not been available. Our objective was to quantify patient lifetime benefits gained from faster treatment. METHODS Observational prospective data of consecutive stroke patients treated with intravenous thrombolysis in Australian and Finnish centers (199...

‎a new method for the defuzzification of fuzzy numbers is developed in this paper. it is well-known, defuzzification methods allow us to find aggregative crisp numbers or crisp set for fuzzy numbers. but different fuzzy numbers are often converted into one crisp number. in this case the loss of essential information is possible. it may result in inadequate final conclusions, for example, expert...

this paper deals with the problem of user-server assignment in online social network systems. online social network applications such as facebook, twitter, or instagram are built on an infrastructure of servers that enables them to communicate with each other. a key factor that determines the facility of communication between the users and the servers is the expected transmission time (ett). a ...

Key words: cyclosporin A; membranous glomerulo-normal. An echo-Doppler eliminated renal-vein thrombosis. Percutaneous renal biopsy showed a minimal-nephritis; minimal-change glomerulonephritis; nephro-tic syndrome; pure red cell aplasia;thymoma change glomerulonephritis: at light-microscopy all glomeruli appeared normal, there were a few epithelial alterations of the proximal tubules and modera...

etal malposition due to persistent hyperextension of the lumbar spine (hyperlordosis) has only very rarely been reported.1 A literature research (key words: hyperlordosis, hyperextension, lumbar spine, opisthotonus, and prenatal) revealed only 1 published case with prenatal diagnosis.2 We describe a case detected by routine prenatal screening, review the literature, and discuss possible etiolog...

An innate deficiency of the Internet is its susceptibility to IP spoofing. Whereas a router uses a forwarding table to determine where it should send a packet, previous research has found that a router can similarly employ an incoming table to verify where a packet should come from, thereby detecting IP spoofing. Based on a previous protocol for building incoming tables, SAVE, this paper introd...

This paper describes a comparative study of designing digital filter of long duration sequences. Here we have adopted the approach of block filtering scheme “overlap save method” and compare with the optimized linear convolution scheme for designing digital filter. We have implemented both methods in FPGA Spartan 3A starter kit, XC3S700A device. Implementing both algorithms in FPGA hardware pla...