Network functions (e.g., firewalls, load balancers, etc.) are traditionally provided by proprietary hardware appliances. These hardware-appliances can be hardwired back to back to form a service chain, which provide services to application layer programs. So, hardware-based functions cannot be provisioned on demand since they are embedded in the network topology making creation, insertion, modi...

OBJECT The objective of this systematic review was to answer the following question: What is the optimal treatment strategy for CSF shunt infection in pediatric patients with hydrocephalus? METHODS The US National Library of Medicine and the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews were queried using MeSH headings and key words relevant to the objective of this systematic review. Abstracts wer...

Removal of metal implants is a common procedure that is performed for a variety of indications. However, problems such as a buried screw head may occasionally arise and render hardware removal difficult or even impossible. The problem is further compounded when the initial screw was inserted percutaneously or via a minimally-invasive (MIS) technique. In the present paper, we introduce a novel, ...

We present an approach to view-dependent triangle mesh simplification based on vertex removal, which focuses on allowing the execution of a large number of operations in parallel. The individual vertex removal operations are designed to be applied without any need for communication or synchronisation between operations, thus allowing an efficient implementation on modern GPUs to reduce the comp...

Background: There is an information gap in literature regarding postoperative outcome of total knee arthroplasty (TKA)in patients with hardware in-situ from the previous knee surgery. The present study aims to evaluate impact of retainedhardware on short-term outcome of TKA patients.Methods: Perioperative radiographs of patients who had undergone TKA between 2007 and 2012 were reviewedand patie...

Corrupted Image and video signals due to impulse noise during the process of signal acquisition and transmission can be corrected. In this paper the effective removal of impulse noise using EODT with pipelined architecture and its VLSI implementation is presented. Proposed technique uses the denoising techniques such as Edge oriented Denoising technique (EODT) which uses 7 stage pipelined ADC f...

A measurement system is described for acoustic absorption of automotive carpets and materials using the cepstrum technique. The system is based on prior work by Bolton [1] with modern software and hardware implementation. Time-domain averaging, minimumphase signal generation, late echo removal, and low-frequency data synthesis are implemented using commonly-available commercial hardware and sof...