The International Planning Competition (IPC) offers a wonderful scope to evaluate and compare different planning approaches and specific planner implementations in benchmark domains. In IPC 2011, the software generated for the competition permits to obtain a lot of data about the execution of all the planners in the different tracks in a simple way, which permits its recovery and use. In this w...

Already announced in 2007 for Sun’s Rock processor but later canceled, hardware transactional memory (HTM) finally found its way into general-purpose desktop and server systems and is soon to be expected for embedded and real-time systems. However, although current hardware implementations have their pitfalls, hindering an immediate adoption of HTM as a synchronization primitive for real-time o...

Background: Antioxidants such as α-tocopherol (vitamin E) and β-carotene (vitamin A) play an important role in protective effect of repeated brief periods of ischemia, namely ischemic preconditioning (IPC). Values of these antioxidants were investigated and compared after induction of ischemia reperfusion (IR) and kidney IPC in both male and female rats. Methods: Forty eight Wistar rats were di...

Aim of the study was to assess current state implementating key aspects infection prevention and control (IPC) in Armenian hospitals, defined by main WHO components, using survey tool IPCAF (Infection Prevention Control Assessment Framework). Materials methods. 113 hospitals were involved study. All participants filled out questionnaire, consisting 8 sections (each rated up 100 points) devoted ...

AIM Intermittent pneumatic compression (IPC) increases systemic fibrinolytic activity but may also injure endothelial cells and thereby induce coagulation. The safety and utility of IPC in patients with peripheral arterial disease (PAD) therefore remains uncertain. The aim of this study was to determine whether IPC is associated with coagulation activation and endothelial cell damage, platelet ...

Previous work from our laboratory has shown that the sarcolemmal K(ATP) channel (sK(ATP)) is required as a trigger for delayed cardioprotection upon exogenous opioid administration. We also established that the mitochondrial K(ATP) (mK(ATP)) channel is not required for triggering delayed delta-opioid-induced infarct size reduction. Because mechanistic differences have been found among delta-opi...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Degradation of adenine nucleotides to adenosine has been suggested to play a critical role in ischemic preconditioning (IPC). Thus, we questioned in patients undergoing partial hepatectomy whether (i) IPC will increase plasma purine catabolites and whether (ii) formation of purines in response to vascular clamping (Pringle maneuver) can be attenuated by prior IPC. METHODS 75 p...

Earlier studies on the effects of the herbicide isopropyl iV-phenylcarbamate (IPC) on mitosis revealed blocked metaphases, multinucleate cells, giant nuclei and an increase in number of partly contracted chromosomes. It was assumed that IPC, like colchicine, was causing these effects by disruption of the spindle apparatus by destroying the spindle microtubules. The animal hormone melatonin caus...

The majority of research in the field of automated planning focuses on the synthesis of plans for problems that are solvable. We propose an IPC track to focus on the important and understudied area of unplannibility: proving that a planning problem is unsolvable. We will focus on classical planning problems, as methods for determining whether or not unplannability can have wider applications fo...

Birds have rapidly responding respiratory chemoreceptors [intrapulmonary chemoreceptors (IPC)] that provide vagal sensory feedback about breathing pattern. IPC are exquisitely sensitive to CO(2) but are unaffected by hypoxia. IPC continue to respond to CO(2) during hypoxic and even anoxic conditions, suggesting that they may generate ATP needed for signal transduction anaerobically. To assess I...