The Stream Control Transmission Protocol (SCTP) is a message oriented reliable transport layer protocol which uses four way handshake mechanism. It is more robust than TCP, which provides delivery of data between two end points, and message boundaries preservation as in UDP. Additionally it has advantage such as multihoming and multi streaming. These features increase the availability of data c...

Automatic spoken instruction understanding (SIU) of the controller-pilot conversations in air traffic control (ATC) requires not only recognizing words and semantics speech but also determining role speaker. However, few published works on automatic systems communication focus speaker identification (SRI). In this article, we formulate SRI task as a binary classification problem. Furthermore, t...

A solution to the effectiveness problem in Kohn's algorithm for generating holomorphic subelliptic multipliers is provided general classes of domains finite type C n , that include so-called special given by and infinite sums squares absolute values functions. Also included a more class recently discovered M. Fassina [23] . More generally, any smoothly bounded pseudoconvex domain we introduce a...

Regulation of the paracellular permeability of the endothelial cell (EC) monolayer is essential for the normal function of the vascular system, and its impairment has severe pathological effects. VEGF and Ang1 (Angiopoietin-1) play essential but opposite roles in the regulation of EC junctions and vessel permeability. The molecular mechanisms through which these ligands affect vessel permeabili...

Male urethral stricture is one of the oldest known urologic diseases, and continues to be a common and challenging urologic condition. Our objective was to review all contemporary and historial articles on the topic of dilation, internal urethrotomy, and stenting of male anterior urethral strictures. An extensive review of the scientific literature concerning anterior urethral urethrotomy/dilat...

1 2 3 4 The SARS coronavirus E protein interacts with PALS1 and alters 5 tight junction formation and epithelial morphogenesis 6 7 8 9 10 11 Kim-Tat Teoh, Yu-Lam Siu, Wing-Lim Chan, Marc A. Schlüter, Chia-Jen Liu, J. S. 12 Malik Peiris, Roberto Bruzzone, Benjamin Margolis, and Béatrice Nal 13 14 15 16 HKU-Pasteur Research Centre, 8 Sassoon Road, Pokfulam, Hong Kong S.A.R. China, 17 Department o...

©AsiaPacific MediaEducator Issue No.11 July Dec. 2001 T Court of Final Appeal of Hong Kong (CFA), the highest court established in Hong Kong after the 1997 handover, has made two landmark but controversial decisions on freedom of expression. The decision in Cheng Albert and Another v Tse Wai Chun Paul (Cheng v Tse) has made it much more difficult for a plaintiff to succeed in a defamation actio...

OBJECTIVES Non-melanoma skin cancer is the most common malignancy in US, with an annual incidence of in excess of 1.5 million cases. In the majority of cases, locoregional treatment is curative and systemic therapy is not indicated. Platinum-based chemotherapy regimens have been used most commonly in refractory cases. The use of cetuximab, a monoclonal antibody targeting epidermal growth factor...