We present a method for providing response-time guarantees for multimedia traffic in Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) networks. The method extends our ResponseTime Analysis (RTA) for ATM networks to better capture the behaviour of MPEG-type multimedia traffic. RTA is intended for admission control of hard real-time traffic, i.e., it determines if a new connection can be admitted without violati...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to demonstrate the incidence rates and predictive factors of superior mediastinal lymph node (SMLN) metastasis in PTC (papillary thyroid carcinoma) patients. METHODS A prospective observational study was performed between January 2009 and January 2011. PTC patients who had tumors with a maximal diameter greater than 1 cm and clinically negative SMLNs w...

We study the set of incompressible strings for various resource bounded versions of Kolmogorov complexity. The resource bounded versions of Kolmogorov complexity we study are: polynomial time CD complexity deened by Sipser, the nondeterministic variant due to Buhrman and Fortnow, and the polynomial space bounded Kolmogorov complexity, CS introduced by Hartmanis. For all of these measures we dee...

The aim of this study was to elucidate the depression-nicotine dependence link by evaluating which specific depressive symptoms are uniquely associated with nicotine dependence in psychiatric outpatients. Participants were assessed using structured clinical interviews which yielded psychiatric diagnoses and clinical ratings on a wide variety of depressive symptoms. Depressive symptoms were comp...

AIM We examined disease profiles of patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2D) at four different public health facilities in Malaysia to determine which site would be the most suitable for early and intensive diabetes care against diabetes-related complications. METHODS This study analysed 57,780 T2D patients in the Adult Diabetes Control and Management registry database in the year 2009. T...

The scaling of the monomer and island densities, island-size distribution ISD , and capture-number distribution CND as a function of the fraction of occupied sites coverage and ratio Dh /F of the monomer hopping rate Dh to the per site monomer creation rate F are studied for the case of irreversible nucleation and growth of fractal islands in three dimensions d=3 . We note that our model is a t...

Objective: To critically evaluate the Quality Management System (QMS) for Clinical Nutrition (CN) in Jiangsu. Monitor its performance quality assessment as well human resource management from nutrition aspect. Investigate appliance and development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) medical control. Materials Methods: The study source this research was all staffs 70 Department (CND) tertiary hospit...

Carbon nanodots (CNDs) were synthesized by the microplasma method using a glucose solution as precursor. The photoluminescence of CNDs before and after UV irradiation was studied. spectral kinetic properties studied MicroTime 200 confocal scanning luminescence microscope. It experimentally demonstrated that short component (tau 1 ) refers to C=O bonds on CND surface. A significant decrease in i...