UNLABELLED Sincalide-stimulated cholescintigraphy is performed to quantify gallbladder contraction and emptying. However, different infusion methods are used for this study. Our purpose was to determine the infusion method with the least variability (smallest coefficient of variation [CV]) for calculation of the gallbladder ejection fraction (GBEF) in healthy subjects and to establish normal va...

We propose to strengthen user-selected passwords against statistical-guessing attacks by allowing users of Internetscale systems to choose any password they want—so long as it’s not already too popular with other users. We create an oracle to identify undesirably popular passwords using an existing data structure known as a count-min sketch, which we populate with existing users’ passwords and ...

As we, all know that in every field it is very important to have quality of services. In the field of Real-time, applications like ATM and Wi-Fi are few examples. Some metrics for quality of services are Cost, Flexibility, Reliability and Efficiency. In this paper, we deal with quality of services in relation to admission control of the packets. In admission control, it should concentrate on sc...

The max-min fairness is one of the most widely used fairness concepts for resource sharing in communication networks. This paper describes some results related to it.

Skewness plays a very important role in task scheduling. It measures the degree of asymmetry in a data set. Moreover, the data set may be positively skewed or negatively skewed. The quartile coefficient of skewness lies in between -1 to 1. If the quartile coefficient is in between -1 to 0, then the data set is negatively skewed. Otherwise, it is positively skewed. Min-Min and Max-Min heuristic ...

The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the pattern of change in muscular glycogen content in response to high-frequency electrical stimulation (HFES). Muscle biopsies were taken from the vastus lateralis muscle of 7 healthy young men before, 15 min after, and 30 min after electrical stimulation delivered at a 50-Hz frequency (15 s on, 45 s off) at an intensity of 100 mA. The glycogen ...

We examined whether sustained changes in baroreceptor loading status during prolonged postexercise recovery can alter the metaboreceptors' influence on heat loss. Thirteen young males performed a 1-min isometric handgrip exercise (IHG) at 60% maximal voluntary contraction followed by 2 min of forearm ischemia (to activate metaboreceptors) before and 15, 30, 45, and 60 min after a 15-min intense...

Renal impairment is a common complication of multiple myeloma. Chronic renal failure is classified according to glomerular filtration rate as estimated by the MDRD (modification of diet in renal disease) formula, while RIFLE (risk, injury, failure, loss and end-stage renal disease) and AKIN (acute renal injury network) criteria may be used for the definition of the severity of acute renal injur...

Leg problems and resulting mortality can exceed 1% per week in turkey toms starting at approximately 15 wk of age. Dietary supplementation of organic trace minerals (MIN) and 25-hydroxycholecalciferol (HyD) may improve performance, decrease incidence of leg abnormalities, and increase bone strength. Nicholas 85X700 toms were assigned to 4 treatments consisting of a factorial arrangement of 2 co...