PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of and relationship between hypomineralized second primary molars (HSPM) and hypomineralized primary canines (HPC) with molar-incisor hypomineralization (MIH) in 1,963 schoolchildren. METHODS The European Academy of Paediatric Dentistry (EAPD) criterion was used for scoring HSPM/HPC and MIH. Only children with four permanent fir...

High-Performance Computing (HPC) and the ability to process large amounts of data are of paramount importance for UK business and economy as outlined by Rt Hon David Willetts MP at the HPC and Big Data conference in February 2014. However there is a shortage of skills and available training in HPC to prepare and expand the workforce for the HPC and Big Data research and development. Currently, ...

Since deployment, our HPC environment has supported a 13x increase in compute demand, with a 10x increase in stability. In addition, tapeout time was reduced from 25 days for the first 65-nm process technologybased microprocessor in a non-HPC compute evironment to 10 days for the first 45-nm process technology-based microprocessor in an HPC-enabled envirnoment. The success of the HPC environmen...

We examined whether repeated reactivations of a context memory would prevent the typical amnesic effects of post-training damage to the hippocampus (HPC). Rats were given a single contextual fear-conditioning session followed by 10 reactivations, involving a brief return to the conditioning context (no shock). Subsequently, the rats received sham or complete lesions of the HPC. When tested for ...

BACKGROUND Solitary Fibrous Tumours (SFT) and haemangiopericytomas (HPC) are rare meningeal tumours that have to be distinguished from meningiomas and more rarely from synovial sarcomas. We recently found that ALDH1A1 was overexpressed in SFT and HPC as compared to soft tissue sarcomas. Using whole-genome DNA microarrays, we defined the gene expression profiles of 16 SFT/HPC (9 HPC and 7 SFT). ...

The complexity of high-performance computing (HPC) workflows is an important issue in the provision HPC cloud services most national supercomputing centers. This problem especially critical because it affects resource scalability, management efficiency, and convenience use. To solve this problem, while exploiting advantage bare-metal-level high performance, container-based solutions have been d...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Hypoxia preconditioning (HPC), rapid or delayed, has been reported to induce neuroprotection against subsequent severe stress. Because delta-opioid receptor (DOR) plays an important role in delayed HPC-induced neuroprotection against severe hypoxic injury, we asked whether DOR is also involved in the rapid HPC-induced neuroprotection. METHODS Cultured rat cortical neuro...

Autophagy disruption leads to neuronal damage in hypoxic-ischemic brain injury. Rab7, a member of the Rab GTPase superfamily, has a unique role in the regulation of autophagy. Hypoxic preconditioning (HPC) provides neuroprotection against transient global cerebral ischemia (tGCI). However, the underlying mechanisms remain poorly understood. Thus, the current study explored the potential molecul...

Intracranial hemangiopericytoma (HPC) is a rare brain tumor with aggressive biologic behavior associated with high recurrence rate and often with extracranial metastasis. The most common sites of extracranial metastasis of the intracranial HPC are the long bones, lung, liver and abdominal cavity in the order of frequencies. Extracranial metastases usually occur long after the initial diagnosis ...

This paper compares three most common job management systems and their workings with Sun HPC ClusterTools 3.1. Various aspects such as installation, customization, scheduling and resource control issues are discussed. The three chosen systems are: Load Sharing Facility (LSF), Portable Batch System (PBS) and COmputing in DIstributed Networked Environment (CODINE)/ Global Resource Director (GRD)....