Cloud computing provides scalable computing and storage resources over the Internet. These scalable resources can be dynamically organized as many virtual machines (VMs) to run user applications based on a pay-per-use basis. The required resources of a VM are sliced from a physical machine (PM) in the cloud computing system. A PMmay hold one or more VMs. When a cloud provider would like to crea...

Venous malformations (VMs) are among the most common slow-flow vascular malformations characterized by irregular venous channels, luminal thrombi, and phleboliths. To systematically manifest the disorganized vascular structures in sporadic VMs, we initially evaluated histopathological characteristics, perivascular cell coverage, adhesion molecules expression and vascular ultrastructures. Then, ...

Virtual machines (VMs) are the main scheduling and management objects of cloud computing platform. Currently, it is short of an efficient scheduling strategy for virtual machines’ motion (VMotion) to guarantee their QoS and avoid the ‘rolling snowball effect’ of whole cloud platform with high resource occupation rate. In this paper, we present our VMotion scheduling strategy based on the analys...

Physiological evidence has indicated that central respiratory chemosensitivity may be ascribed to neurons located at the ventral medullary surface (VMS); however, in recent years, multiple sites have been proposed. Because c-Fos immunoreactivity is presumed to identify primary cells as well as second- and third-order cells that are activated by a particular stimulus, we hypothesized that activa...

OBJECTIVES To develop clinical criteria that permit clinical distinction between inherited glomuvenous malformation (GVM), known as glomangioma, and inherited cutaneomucosal venous malformation and to test these criteria on sporadic lesions. DESIGN Clinical data were compiled for 1685 patients with inherited or sporadic cutaneous venous anomalies. Based on a cohort of patients with a mutation...

Although dietary supplement use is believed to improve health status, the efficacy and safety of its use remains controversial. This study aimed to investigate the contribution of consumption of vitamin and mineral supplements (VMS) to the total micronutrient intake. Study participants (n = 586) were selected from the ongoing prospective cohort study of the Korean population, and baseline infor...

Intravenous sodium cyanide (NaCN) administration lowers ventral medullary surface (VMS) activity in anesthetized cats. Sleep states modify spontaneous and blood pressure-evoked VMS activity and may alter VMS responses to chemoreceptor input. We studied VMS activation during peripheral chemoreceptor stimulation by intravenous NaCN using optical procedures in six cats instrumented for recording s...

We introduce RS-vector machines (RS-VMs) as a canonical form of vector machines. They are based on vector operations called repeat and stretch. Repeat enlarges a vector (a1 , a2 , ..., am) to (a1 , a2 , ..., am , a1 , a2, ..., am) and stretch enlarges (a1, a2, ..., am) to (a1, a1, a2, a2, ..., am, am), when the expansion factor d(m)=2. It is shown that we can change the power of RS-VMs dependin...

PURPOSE The purpose of our study was to describe the morphological features of gastrointestinal vascular malformations (VM) and of hemangiolymphangiomas (HLA) and to establish correlations with clinical characteristics. Significant findings: Fifteen VMs and 12 HLAs that were encountered over a period of 22 years, were retrospectively analyzed. The VMs often involved the colon, small intestine, ...

Hypervisors and Operating Systems support vertical elasticity techniques such as memory ballooning to dynamically assign the memory of Virtual Machines (VMs). However, current Cloud Management Platforms (CMPs), such as OpenNebula or OpenStack, do not currently support dynamic vertical elasticity. This paper describes a system that integrates with the CMP to provide automatic vertical elasticity...