Inter scalene block: Revisiting old technique

Revisiting Cache Block Superloading

Technological advances and increasingly complex and dynamic application behavior argue for revisiting mechanisms that adapt logical cache block size to application characteristics. This approach to bridging the processor/memory performance gap has been studied before, but mostly via trace-driven simulation, looking only at L1 caches. Given changes in hardware/software technology, we revisit the...

Spermatic Cord Anesthesia Block: An Old Technique Re-imaged

Spermatic cord anesthesia block (SCAB) is a useful technique for providing anesthesia to males with scrotal pain. This technique has been described and published in the urology and anesthesia literature for more than 40 years. Initially described as a blind injection, anesthesia of the spermatic cord provides pain control to the scrotal contents. The technique can easily be performed under ultr...

Inter-Block Permuted Turbo Codes

The structure and size of the interleaver used in a turbo code critically affect the distance spectrum and the covariance property of a component decoder’s information input and soft output. This paper introduces a new class of interleavers, the inter-block permutation (IBP) interleavers, that can be build on any existing “good” block-wise interleaver by simply adding an IBP stage. The IBP inte...

Revisiting bounded context block-sorting transformations

The Burrows-Wheeler Transform (bwt) produces a permutation of a string X, denoted X∗, by sorting the n cyclic rotations of X into full lexicographical order, and taking the last column of the resulting n× n matrix to be X∗. The transformation is reversible in O(n) time. In this paper, we consider an alteration to the process, called k-bwt, where rotations are only sorted to a depth k. We propos...

Revisiting "A time to be old".