Customers of cloud services choose the VMs profiles (SLAs) offered by the provider, and pay according to how long these VMs are utilized. Many works deal with how to decrease the cost of VM requests scheduling, but consider solely the charging models in the SLA. However, other characteristics in the SLA must be taken into account when choosing a VM to execute users’ applications (e.g. processin...

Spaceborne Interferometric SAR (InSAR) technology used in the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) and spaceborne lidar such as Shuttle Laser Altimeter-02 (SLA-02) are two promising technologies for providing global scale digital elevation models (DEMs). Each type of these systems has limitations that affect the accuracy or extent of coverage. These systems are complementary in developing DE...

Implementing and offering other than best effort services in large scale IP networks, such as Internet, has been and still is one of the biggest challenges for network operators, (internet) service providers (I)SPs and vendors on route towards multiservice IP networks and internet. Service Level Agreements (SLAs) play an important role from providers ́ and the customers ́ business point of view w...

Factors that contribute to interspeci®c variation in photosynthetic nitrogen-use eciency (PNUE, the ratio of CO2 assimilation rate to leaf organic nitrogen content) were investigated, comparing ten dicotyledonous species that di€er inherently in speci®c leaf area (SLA, leaf area:leaf dry mass). Plants were grown hydroponically in controlled environment cabinets at two irradiances (200 and 1000...

introduction: the purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of 6w power carbon dioxide laser (co2) on the biologic compatibility of the sandblasting with large grit and acid etching (sla) titanium discs through studying of the sarcoma osteogenic (saos-2) human osteoblast-like cells viability. methods: sterilized titanium discs were used together with saos-2 human osteoblast-like cells...

Universal Grammar (UG) proposed by Chomsky (1986) has gained a large popularity in linguistics study. The paper firstly illustrates the background and major contents of UG and second language acquisition (SLA). Then it addresses the three hypotheses of UG in SLA, which center on whether adult language learners have access to the principles and parameters of UG in constructing the grammar of a s...

His Master's thesis was about neuronal injury and astrogliosis. This case study reports a rare variation of the superior laryngeal artery (SLA), which is the principal arterial supply of the larynx. The knowledge of the arterial variations is essential for the surgeons to prevent blood loss and postoperative complications. During routine dissection of an adult male cadaver, a rare arterial vari...

Implants trigger an inflammatory response, which is important for osseointegration. Here we studied neutrophil extracellular trap (NET) release of human neutrophils in response to sandblasted large-grit acid etched (SLA) implants using fluorescent, confocal laser scanning and scanning electron microscopy. Our studies demonstrate that human neutrophils rapidly adhered to SLA surfaces, which trig...