The erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) is still a widely used parameter for acute phase inflammation. Recently, new methods based on direct undiluted measurement of ESR in a standard EDTA tube have been developed. We evaluated the analytic performance of one of these new methods, the Ves-Matic Cube 200 (Diesse Diagnostica Senese, Siena, Italy), and compared it with several established Westerg...

Two econometric issues arise in the estimation of complete systems of producer or consumer demands when many non-negativity constraints are binding for a large share of observations, as frequently occurs with micro-level data. The rst is computational. The econometric model is essentially an endogenous switching regimes model which requires the evaluation of multivariate probability integrals. ...

The performance of shared memory applications on Distributed Shared Memory (DSM) depends to a great part on the existence of efficient synchronization mechanisms and relaxed consistency models with a small management overhead. Using some of the core features of SCI, remote memory access and atomic transactions, highly efficient solutions for these areas have been developed and implemented withi...

In this paper, we consider techniques for disseminating dynamic data—such as stock prices and real-time weather information—from sources to a set of repositories. We focus on the problem of maintaining coherency of dynamic data items in a network of cooperating repositories. We show that cooperation among repositories— where each repository pushes updates of data items to other repositories—hel...

Web Cube is a server side programming model for building interactive web applications. Compared to typical server side approaches used nowadays, Web Cube offers better abstraction mechanism and built-in safety. It imposes a more logical organization of its components. As a direct result of this applications become inherently secure and development is less error prone. Web Cube is based on Seuss...

This paper evaluates the security level of the River Keyak against the cube-like attack. River Keyak is the only lightweight scheme of the Keccak-permutation-based Authenticated Encryption Cipher Keyak, which is one of the 16 survivors of the 3rd round CAESAR competition. Dinur et al. gave the sevenround cube-like attack on Lake Keyak (1600-bit) using the divide-and-conquer method at EUROCRYPT ...

Abstract A sharp cube textured Ni overlayer on Cu substrates has been developed for the manufacturing of long-length RABiTS-based coated conductor tapes. Using a low-cost, non-vacuum and easily scalable technique of electroplating, smooth, crack-free and continuous Ni overlayers were deposited on cube textured Cu substrates without any intermediate layers. In addition, sharp cube textured Sm-do...

Scatter-free phosphors promise to suppress the scattering loss of conventional micro-size powder phosphors in white phosphor-converted light-emitting diodes (pc-LEDs). Large micro-size cube phosphors (~100 μm) are newly designed and prepared as scatter-free phosphors, combining the two scatter-free conditions of particles based on Mie's scattering theory; the grain size or grain boundary was sm...