BACKGROUND The randomized case presentation (RCP) study is designed to assess the degree of diagnostic accuracy for described periodontal cases. This is to lay the basis for practitioner calibration in the Practitioners Engaged in Applied Research and Learning (PEARL) Network for future clinical studies. METHODS The RCP consisted of 10 case scenarios ranging from periodontal health to gingivi...

We present the formal verification of synchronizing aspects of the Reliable Computing Platform (RCP), a fault-tolerant computing system for digital flight control applications. The RCP uses NMR-style redundancy to mask faults and internal majority voting to purge the effects of transient faults. The system design has been formally specified and verified using the EHDM verification system. Our f...

The rate control protocol (RCP) is a new network congestion control protocol which is designed to achieve smaller file completion times, fairness among flows competing for resources in the network and efficient use of available bandwidth. In this paper I show that the heuristic protocol, RCP performs well only for a specific scenario. I further derive an exact formula for a robust protocol whic...

The idea is to interconnect test items to reuse memory states left from the previous test item for saving initialization and verification sequences. Meanwhile, signal settling time of tester between two consecutive test items being applied can also be minimized since all test items are connected together into a continuous one. The interconnection problem is transformed to the Rural Chinese Post...

In this paper we describe graph-based parallel algorithms for entity resolution that improve over the map-reduce approach. We compare two approaches to parallelize a Locality Sensitive Hashing (LSH) accelerated, Iterative Match-Merge (IMM) entity resolution technique: BCP, where records hashed together are compared at a single node/reducer, vs an alternative mechanism (RCP) where comparison loa...

BACKGROUND Assessing asthma control using standardised questionnaires is recommended as good clinical practice but there is little evidence validating their use within primary care. There is however, strong empirical evidence to indicate that age, weight, gender, smoking, symptom pattern, medication use, health service resource use, geographical location, deprivation, and organisational issues,...

OBJECTIVE To assess the clinical significance of circumferential resection margins according to current criteria of the College of American Pathologists (CAP) and the Royal College of Pathology (RCP) in esophageal and esophagogastric cancer. DESIGN Prospective study. SETTING Single-surgeon database. PATIENTS One hundred thirty-five patients (mean age, 64 years) with T3 tumors who underwen...

Muscle deoxygenated breakpoint ([HHb]BP) has been found to be associated with other indices of exercise tolerance in the vastus lateralis (VL) muscle but not in the vastus medialis (VM) and rectus femoris (RF). Purpose: To investigate whether the [HHb]BP occurs also in the VM and RF muscles and whether or not it is associated with other physiological indices of exercise tolerance, such as the E...