Real-time applications such as Voice over IP, audio and video streaming require Quality of Service (QoS). Such applications are being executed over the public Internet. Since today’s Internet largely supports best effort traffic, QoS routing in the best effort environment is required to support real-time applications. Some QoS routing use source routing and others use flooding of some QoS attib...

AIMS Although dipyridamole is a widely used pharmacological stress agent, the direct effects on myocardium are not entirely known. Diabetic cardiomyopathy can be investigated by 2D-strain echocardiography. The aim of this study was to assess myocardial functional reserve after dipyridamole infusion using speckle-tracking echocardiography. METHODS Seventy-five patients referred for dipyridamol...

an oil and gas well cementing in gachsaran formation, where sustained annular pressure has been reported in many wells, presents a big challenge in maroon field. the main challenges are preventing gas migration and achieving zonal isolation using a competent cement sealant system which is able to withstand downhole stresses and high temperatures during production cycles. unlike conventional cem...

INTRODUCTION Botulinum neurotoxin (BtNtx) treatment for hemifacial spasm (HFS) prior to microvascular decompression (MVD) is hypothesized to be a factor in the variability of intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring (IONM) during this procedure. METHODS We analyzed 282 MVDs performed at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center between January 1, 2000 and December 31, 2007. We retrospec...

Optotune has developed an Electroactive Polymer Actuator-based solution to move a diffuser and drastically reduce the speckle contrast of Laser beams: the LSR-5-17 (Laser Speckle Reducer). With its integrated miniaturized electronics for HV generation and motion control, the LSR-5-17 provides a compact 27 x 21 x 6mm solution with a simple 5V micro USB interface for power supply. A miniaturized ...

Biomedical named entity recognition (NER) is a challenging problem. In this paper, we show that mining techniques, such as sequential pattern mining and sequential rule mining, can be useful to tackle this problem but present some limitations. We demonstrate and analyse these limitations and introduce a new kind of pattern called LSR pattern that offers an excellent trade-off between the high p...

uniaxial compressive strength (ucs) and elastic properties of rocks play a major and vital role for the design of any engineering structure. the specimen diameter size is one of the main factors that influencing on ucs, elasticity modulus and poisson’s ratio (e and υ). here, an attempt has been made to investigate the effect of specimen diameter size on ucs, e and υ. moreover, we studied the co...

The Wisconsin H-Alpha Mapper (WHAM) Northern Sky Survey is revealing that many intermediate-velocity (|v LSR | ≤ 100 km s −1) neutral clouds and complexes have an associated ionized component. We present the first map of the Hα emission from an intermediate-or high-velocity structure: Complex K. This large, high-latitude feature stretches from ℓ ≈ 10 • to 70 • , b ≈ +30 • to +70 • and peaks in ...

This study assessed the accuracy of the technical absorbent (TA) method for measuring local sweat rate (LSR) relative to the well-established ventilated capsule (VC) method during steady-state and nonsteady-state sweating using large and small sample surface areas on the forearm and midback. Forty participants (38 males and two females) cycled at 60% peak oxygen consumption for 75 min in either...

We examine local strong rationality (LSR) in multivariate models with both forward-looking expectations and predetermined variables. Given hypothetical common knowledge restrictions that the dynamics will be close to those of a specified minimal state variable solution, we obtain eductive stability conditions for the solution to be LSR. In the saddlepoint stable case the saddle-path solution is...