Today, the use of anycast address is quite limited. One of the reasons is that there is no routing protocol providing a global anycasting service. In this paper we design and implement a new anycast routing protocol called PIA-SM (Protocol Independent Anycast – Sparse Mode). We focus on PIM-SM (Protocol Independent Multicast – Sparse Mode), which is one of multicast routing protocols available ...

TATA-Box polymorphism in the uridine diphosphate glucuronosyl transferase gene in Portuguese patients with clinical diagnosis of Gilbert Syndrome Elisio Costa, 1 Emflia Vieira, 2 Ermelinda Santos-Silva,3 Jose Barbot, 1 Rosario dos Santos2 1 Servi~o de Hematologia. Hospital de Crian~as Maria Pia. Porta; 2Unidade de Genetica Molecular do Institute de Genetica Medica Doutor Jacinto de Magalhaes. P...

The pulse inversion averaging (PIA) method is introduced to the shadowgraph imaging system to visualize the second-harmonic component of the ultrasonic field. The principle of the PIA method is summarized and the method is customized for observing an second-harmonic ultrasonic field. An experiment of a shadowgraph with PIA using a 1-MHz concave focused transducer is conducted to evaluate the sy...

A principal goal of the Project Integration Architecture (PIA) is to facilitate the meaningful inter-application transfer of application-value-added information. Such exchanging applications may be largely unrelated to each other except through their applicability to an overall project; however, the PIA effort recognizes as fundamental the need to make such applications cooperate despite wide d...

fusion in STEMI patients and carries a high risk of complications, including increased rates of adverse remodeling, heart failure and death.16–23 Interestingly, previous studies have shown a reduction “in vivo” of the MVO rate in patients experiencing PIA.24–26 Of note, although it is already known that cardiovascular risk factors (CRFs) may limit the protective effects of IP in human models,27...

We examined the antiallodynic interaction between gabapentin and adenosine A1 receptor agonist, N(6)-(2-phenylisopropyl)-adenosine R-(-)isomer (R-PIA), in a rat model of nerve ligation injury. Rats were prepared with ligation of left L5-6 spinal nerves and intrathecal catheter implantation for drug administration. Mechanical allodynia was measured by applying von Frey filaments. Gabapentin and ...

ISTI-CNR (National Research Council), Area della Ricerca del C.N.R., Via Moruzzi 1, I-56124 Pisa, Italy [email protected], [email protected] Department of Communications, Computer and Systems Science (DIST) University of Genova, Via Opera Pia 13, 16145 Genova, Italy [email protected] CNIT (Italian National Consortium for Telecommunications) – University of Genova Research U...

The dorsolateral pontine inhibitory area (PIA) and medial medullary reticular formation (MMRF) have been found to mediate the muscle atonia of REM sleep. Our previous studies have shown that acetylcholine (ACh) microinjection in the PIA and in the nucleus paramedianus of the medial medulla produces muscle atonia. Glutamate microinjection in both PIA and nucleus magnocellularis (NMC) of the medi...

Progressive-iteration approximation (PIA) is a new data fitting technique developed recently for blending curves and surfaces. Taking the given data points as the initial control points, PIA constructs a series of fitting curves (surfaces) by adjusting the control points iteratively, while the limit curve (surface) interpolates the data points. More importantly, progressive-iteration approximat...