In colorectal carcinoma, poorly differentiated clusters (PDCs) are a poor prognostic indicator and show morphological continuity and behavioral similarities to micropapillary patterns (MPPs) as well as tumor buds (TBs). Epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT) and inhibition of cancer-stromal interactions may contribute to the development of PDCs. To clarify the biological nature of PDCs, we exa...

Prevalence and genetic relatedness were determined for third-generation cephalosporin-resistant Escherichia coli (3GC-R-Ec) detected in Swiss beef, veal, pork, and poultry retail meat. Samples from meat-packing plants (MPPs) processing 70% of the slaughtered animals in Switzerland were purchased at different intervals between April and June 2013 and analyzed. Sixty-nine 3GC-R-Ec isolates were o...

This paper reports the results of a two year field monitoring exercise intended to investigate the pollution abatement capabilities of a novel system which offers an alternative to the, now well established, pervious pavement system as a source control device for stormwater management. The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of a live installation of a macro-pervious pavement s...

The membrane-permeable peptides (MPP) such as undecapeptides TAT (YGRKKRRQRRR) and CTP (YGRRARRRRRR) have been receiving much attention for delivering various kinds of low membrane-permeability materials in vitro and in vivo. We have successfully used MPP in carrying various proteins through blood-brain barrier (BBB) in treatment of many kinds of nervous diseases. However, people always concent...

Despite the emergence of high speed LANs, the communication performance available to applications on workstation clusters still falls short of that available on MPPs. A new generation of eecient messaging layers is needed to take advantage of the hardware performance and to deliver it to the application level. Communication software is the key element in bridging the communication performance g...

Ultra-broadband sound absorption with periodic gradient impedance matching is of great concern in the research acoustic materials. This study investigates composite metamaterials comprising micro-perforated plates (MPPs) and subsequent Fabry–Pérot(FP) channels. Based on theory, ultra-broadband has been realized through a design 36 channels whose thickness only 50 mm. Also, average coefficient 8...

In the packet classification, the route and resources allocated to a packet are determined by the destination address as well as other header fields of the packet such as source/destination address, TCP and UDP port numbers. It has been demonstrated that performing packet classification on a potentially large number of fields is difficult and has poor worst-case performance. In this work, we pr...

Processing-In-Memory (PIM) systems avoid the von-Neumann bottleneck in conventional machines by integrating high-density DRAM and CMOS logic on the same chip. Parallel systems based on this technology are expected to provide higher scalability, adaptability, robustness, fault tolerance, and lower power consumption than current MPPs or commodity clusters. Most current PIM-related research deals ...

Communications co-processors (CCPs) have become commonplace in modern MPPs and networks of workstations. These co-processors provide dedicated hardware support for fast communication. In this paper we study how to exploit the capabilities of CCPs for executing user level message handlers. We show, in the context of Active Messages and Split-C, that we can move message handling code to the co-pr...

1 Parasitology Lab, Section for Microbiology, Immunology, and Parasitology, Department of Food Safety and Infection Biology, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Adamstuen-Campus, Oslo, Norway, 2 Department of Virology, Parasitology and Immunology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, 3 Emerging Pathogens Institute and Department of Animal Sciences, University of ...