growth stages and in bio¢lms Mina Tabak, Keren Scher, Efrat Hartog, Ute Romling, Karl R. Matthews, Michael L. Chikindas & Sima Yaron Department of Biotechnology and Food Engineering, Technion, Haifa, Israel; Microbiology and Tumorbiology Center, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; and Department of Food Science, Cook College, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ,...

This paper provides an overview of an implementation of Differentiated Services interior and boundary nodes as described in the SIMA model. The operation of the network nodes was verified with a series of measurements in a simple networking environment. These measurements also give some idea about the level of Quality of Service this kind of mechanism is able to provide.

Vaclav Vetvicka a,∗, Bohuslav Dvorak b, Jana Vetvickova a, Jan Richter c, Jiri Krizan c, Petr Sima c, Jean-Claude Yvin d a University of Louisville, Department of Pathology, Louisville, KY 40202, United States b University of Arizona, Department of Pediatrics, Tucson, AZ 85724, United States c Institute of Microbiology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic d Laboratories Goemar, Sa...

BACKGROUND Prior observational studies have suggested better outcomes in patients who receive bilateral internal mammary arteries (BIMA) during coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) compared with patients who receive a single internal mammary artery (SIMA). The aim of this study was to analyze the association between BIMA use and long-term survival in patients who underwent primary isolated CA...

Different Views on the Political Geography of the Empire in the 11th Century: Debates over Military Affairs between Wang Anshi and Sima Guang Chang Woei Ong The National University of Singapore “Emphasize the civil, de‐emphasize the military” (zhongwen qingwu重文輕武) has almost become a set phrase used to explain why the Song was not the powerful Han or Tang. According to a popular perception, th...

Erzurum Kongresi, Türk Milli Mücadelesi’nin ilk ve en önemli kongrelerinden biridir. Kongre; Mondros Mütarekesi’nden sonra Anadolu’nun kimi bölgelerinin işgale uğraması, ise Ermenistan Pontus devleti kurma planlarının parçası haline gelmesi üzerine bu bölgelerde yaşayan Müslüman halkının, girişimlere karşı çıkmak üzere kurdukları cemiyetlerin girişimiyle gerçekleşmiştir. Merkezi Trabzon’da olan...

BackgroundThe purpose of this study was to evaluate postoperative outcomes with the use bilateral internal mammary artery (BIMA) conduits in obese patients.MethodsBetween January 2003 and December 2018, 8109 patients underwent isolated coronary bypass grafting, including 7218 (89%) treated single (SIMA) 891 (11%) BIMA grafts. Patients were divided into 3 groups according preoperative body mass ...

Sima Samar had just graduated from the Kabul University School of Medicine, in 1982, when the Soviet invasion forced her to flee to central Afghanistan. "I began seeing patients immediately, but I often had to run to my book to identify symptoms and treatments, and then I had to find out whether the necessary medicine was even available. I saw women die every day because of incomplete abortion ...