background: medical image interpolation is recently introduced as a helpful tool to obtain further information via initial available images taken by tomography systems. this information may be useful for better diagnosis of possible lesions or better tumor delineation at radiation treatment. to do this, deformable image registration algorithms are mainly utilized to perform image interpolation ...

Background: There has been conflicting data on whether Nursing Magnet Hospitals (NMH) provide better care. Methods: NMH in the Southwest USA (Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Nevada, and New Mexico) were compared to hospitals not designated as NMH using the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) hospital compare star designation. Results: NMH had higher star ratings than non-NMH hospital...

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is de facto the only inter-domain routing protocol of the Internet. Although the protocol is reasonably simple, due to the size of its current deployment many anomalies can be observed. Such anomalies are for example very long convergence time or path haunting. Some techniques (e.g., like route ap damping) have been applied to tackle the observed problems but they ...

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Semi-Lagranging schemes have been explored by several authors recently for transport problems in particular for moving interfaces using level set method. We incorporate the backward error compensation method developed in [2] into the semi-Lagranging schemes with almost the same simplicity and three times the complexity of a first order semi-Lagranging scheme but improve the order of accuracy. W...