Aim of the study is to evaluate the correlation between dental caries and salivary flow, pH and buffering capacity in young adult South Indian population. According to DMFT scores eighty subjects between 20 to 30 years of age were divided into four groups. Saliva samples collected were estimated for salivary flow, pH and buffering capacity and the data was statistically analysed. The pH, flow r...

The current best-effort Internet does not guarantee the bandwidth availability between a receiver and a sender, and so renders any quality-of-service (QoS) control difficult, if not impossible. This paper proposes a novel predictive buffering algorithm for streaming video not from one, but from multiple senders to a receiver over the best-effort Internet. In particular, the predictive buffering...

Increased calcium buffering in basal forebrain neurons during aging. J. Neurophysiol. 80: 350-364, 1998. Alterations of neuronal calcium (Ca2+) homeostasis are thought to underlie many age-related changes in the nervous system. Basal forebrain neurons are susceptible to changes associated with aging and to related dysfunctions such as Alzheimer's disease. It recently was shown that neurons from...

Modern switches and routers often use dynamic RAM (DRAM) in order to provide large buffer storage space. However, the effective bandwidth of DRAM is frequently a limiting factor in the design of high-speed switches and routers. The focus of this paper is to introduce a packet-buffering architecture called the parallel packet buffering (PPB), which increases the effective memory bandwidth signif...

ad hoc networks are multi-hop wireless networks without a pre-installed infrastructure. such networks are widely used in military applications and in emergency situations as they permit the establishment of a communication network at very short notice with a very low cost. video is very sensitive for packet loss and wireless ad-hoc networks are error prone due to node mobility and weak links. h...

one of the most important items for better file system performance is efficient buffering of disk blocks in main memory. efficient buffering helps to reduce the widespeed gap between main memory and hard disks. in this buffering system, the block replacement policy is one of the most important design decisions that determines which disk block should be replaced when the buffer is full. to overc...