Cytomegalovirus (CMV) is the most common cause of congenital infection worldwide. Urine viral culture is the standard for CMV diagnosis in neonates and infants. The objectives of this study were to compare the performance of serial paired rapid shell vial cultures (SVC) and routine viral cultures (RVC), and to determine the optimal number of cultures needed to detect positive cases. From 2001 t...

The Joint Video Team (JVT) of the ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group (VCEG) and the ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group (MPEG) has standardized a scalable video coding (SVC) extension of the H.264/AVC standard. Thanks to SVC, it is possible to partially transmit or decode a video bitstream resulting in various video qualities (spatial, temporal or reduced delity). Within our lab, the aim is to d...

PATHOPHYSIOLOGY The superior vena cava (SVC) is a short large-diameter vein (about 7 cm long) that carries deoxygenated blood from the upper half of the body to the heart’s right atrium (Figure 1). The SVC is located in the anterior right superior mediastinum, surrounded by the sternum, ribs, vertebral bodies, and aorta (Nunnelee, 2007). When the SVC is compressed, blood flows through the colla...

class ff node { protected: virtual bool push(void∗ data) { return qout−>push(data); } virtual bool pop(void∗∗ data) { return qin−>pop(data); } public: virtual void∗ svc(void ∗ task) = 0; virtual int svc init () { return 0; }; virtual void svc end() {} ... private: SPSC∗ qin; SPSC∗ qout; }; Arbitrary streaming networks layer implements the ff_node, i.e. the building block of networks and serves ...

In this paper, the performance of the emerging MPEG-4 SVC CODEC is evaluated. In the first part, a brief introduction on the subject of quality assessment and the development of the MPEG-4 SVC CODEC is given. After that, the used test methodologies are described in detail, followed by an explanation of the actual test scenarios. The main part of this work concentrates on the performance analysi...

The development of the more increasing power electronics allows the use of FACTS devices to manage and improve either the flow of power or the stability of the power system. One type of FACTS device studied is the SVC. In this study, optimization of SVC is used to determine the most appropriate location and rating in order to obtain the optimum power transfer. Optimization methods used in this ...

Trigeminal primary afferent fibers have small receptive fields and discrete submodalities, but second order trigeminal neurons often display larger receptive fields with complex, multimodal responses. Moreover, while most large caliber afferents terminate exclusively in the principal trigeminal nucleus, and pars caudalis (sVc) of the spinal trigeminal nucleus receives almost exclusively small c...

We present Selector-based View Composition (SVC), a new programming style for web application development. Using SVC, a developer defines a web page as a series of transformations on an initial state. Each transformation consists of a selector (used to select parts of the page) and an action (used to modify content matched by the selector). SVC applies these transformations on either the client...

Scalable Video Coding (SVC) is the scalable extension of H.264/AVC which extends spatial, temporal and quality scalability on the H.264 video stream. In this thesis, a fast priority index (PID) assignment algorithm is first developed for the MGS (Medium Grain Scalability) packets in SVC. We formulate the index assignment problem as the quantization of the rate-distortion (R-D) slopes of MGS pac...