BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to determine the optimal monochromatic spectral CT pulmonary angiography (sCTPA) levels to obtain the highest image quality and diagnostic confidence for pulmonary embolism detection. METHODS The Institutional Review Board of the Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine approved this study, and written informed consent was obtained from all partici...

Virtualized network slicing allows a multitude of logical networks to be created on common substrate infrastructure support diverse services. A virtualized slice is combination multiple virtual functions, which run machines (VMs) as software applications by virtualization techniques. As the performance slices hinges normal running VMs, detecting and analyzing anomalies in VMs are critical. Base...

Hosting a multi-tier application using an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) cloud requires deploying components of the application stack across virtual machines (VMs) to provide the application’s infrastructure while considering factors such as scalability, fault tolerance, performance and deployment costs (# of VMs). This paper presents results from an empirical study which investigates impli...

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We explore the potential of using data from Australia’s northern prawn fishery (NPF) vessel monitoring system(s) (VMS) to examine trawl track, trawling intensity, and stock depletion due to trawling. We simulate VMS data by subsampling global positioning system (GPS) fixes from the NPF fishing vessels at different polling intervals to examine their accuracy in describing trawl tracks. The resul...

As part of monitoring, control and surveillance marine fisheries, a logbook monitoring vessel system (VMS) were introduced for multi-day fishing. The present study investigates the possibility using VMS data to validate records fishing locations vessels. from 1,424 multiday vessels fitted with VMS, which was operated May 2017 April 2018. During period, there 17,626 trips 66,717 occasions. In tr...

On a 60mph section of road that included 40kph school zone, speed detection devices were installed prior to, immediately after, and further away from variable message signage (VMS) displaying anti-speeding messages. Speed data (>250,000 vehicle movements) collected continuously to VMS installation (week1), during display (week2), post-display (week3). reductions associated with deployment week1...

EDITORIAL Searching for effective, nonhormonal treatments for vasomotor symptoms: is there a needle in the haystack? H ot flashes and night sweatsValso known as vaso-motor symptoms (VMS)Vare considered the hallmark of the menopausal transition. The prevalence rate of these symptoms has been reported to be between 60% and 85% in women during this period, although 10% to 20% of women may remained...

Cloud computing is becoming popular day by day, due to high performance. Computing resources are available anywhere at any time with ‘pay as you go’ model. Virtualization is playing an important role to provide cloud services to the end users via internet. Virtualization is the emulation of physical machine. Number of Virtual Machines (VM) can be created from physical machines and can be provid...