THE Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) recognizes that research and development of new techniques and therapies is vital for the continued success of interventional radiology and medicine as a whole. Dissemination of knowledge of groundbreaking information to potential researchers in interventional radiology is clearly a critical part of this process. Consequently, in 2005, the SIR Opera...

Vaccination has proven to be an invaluable means of preventing infectious diseases by reducing both incidence of disease and mortality. However, vaccines have not been effectively developed for many diseases including HIV-1, hepatitis C virus (HCV), tuberculosis and malaria, among others. The emergence of new technologies with a growing understanding of host-pathogen interactions and immunity m...

Emerging non-volatile memory (NVM) technologies, such as PCRAM and STT-RAM, are getting mature in recent years. These emerging NVM technologies have demonstrated great potentials to be the candidates for future computer memory architecture design. It is important for SoC designers and computer architects to understand the benefits and limitations of such emerging memory technologies, to improve...