Vehicular cloud computing (VCC) system coordinates the vehicular cloud (consisting of vehicles’ computing resources) and the remote cloud properly to provide in-time services to users. Although pervious works had established the models for resource allocation in the VCC system based on semiMarkov decision processes (SMDP), few of them discussed heterogeneity of vehicles and influences of roadsi...

PURPOSE To investigate the relationship between retinal light sensitivity measured with standard automated perimetry (SAP) and retardation of the peripapillary retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) measured with the GDx VCC (Laser Diagnostic Technologies, Inc., San Diego, CA). METHODS Forty-seven healthy subjects and 101 patients with glaucoma were examined with SAP and with the commercially avail...

PURPOSE To compare the structure-function relationship between peripapillary retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) retardation, measured with scanning laser polarimetry (SLP) with both enhanced and variable corneal compensation (ECC [enhanced corneal compensation] and VCC [variable corneal compensation], respectively; features of the GDx Nerve Fiber Analyzer; Carl Zeiss Meditec, Inc., Dublin, CA), a...

Vibrio cholerae cytolysin/hemolysin (VCC) is a 65 kDa β-pore-forming toxin causing lysis and death of eukaryotic cells. Apart from the core cytolysin domain, VCC has two lectin domains with β-trefoil and β-prism folds. The β-prism domain binds to cell surface carbohydrate receptors; the role of the β-trefoil domain is unknown. Here, we show that the pro-VCC mutant without the β-trefoil domain f...

AIM To investigate the potential advantage of an enhanced corneal compensation algorithm (ECC) compared with variable corneal compensation (VCC) in the analysis of scanning laser polarimetric (SLP) images with atypical retardation pattern (ARP). METHODS SLP-VCC images with ARP (typical scan score (TSS) <80) of one eye of each of 27 glaucoma patients and 19 healthy subjects were compared with ...

Chain code is fundamental for many applications in image analysis and pattern recognition, because it reduces the amount of stored data and preserves the maintenance of data. The most famous chain code which applied in many applications is Freeman chain code. One of the other kinds of chain code is the Vertex Chain Code (VCC).The VCC proposed by Bribiesca and it has some preferences such as sta...

HIV-1 particles assemble and bud from the plasma membrane of infected T lymphocytes. Infected macrophages, in contrast, accumulate particles within an apparent intracellular compartment known as the virus-containing compartment or VCC. Many aspects of the formation and function of the VCC remain unclear. Here we demonstrate that VCC formation does not actually require infection of the macrophag...

AIMS To determine and compare the accuracy and reproducibility of GDx variable cornea compensation (VCC) scanning laser polarimetry (SLP) with VCC, Heidelberg retina tomograph (HRT) I confocal scanning laser ophthalmoscopy (CSLO), and clinical assessment of stereoscopic optic nerve head (ONH) photographs for diagnosing glaucoma. METHODS One eye each of 40 healthy subjects, 48 glaucoma patient...

The theory and first implementation of a vibrational coupled cluster (VCC) method for calculations of the vibrational structure of molecules is presented. Different methods for introducing approximate VCC methods are discussed including truncation according to a maximum number of simultaneous mode excitations as well as an interaction space order concept is introduced. The theory is tested on c...

AIM To compare the results of scanning laser polarimetry (GDx) with variable corneal compensation (VCC) and enhanced corneal compensation (ECC) when applied to myopic glaucomatous eyes. METHODS Forty glaucoma eyes with moderate myopia (between -3 and -6 D) and 35 glaucoma eyes with high myopia (-8 D or greater) were enrolled in this study. GDx VCC, GDx ECC and standard automated perimetry (SA...