The logical observation identifiers names and codes (LOINC) database contains 55 000 terms consisting of more atomic components called parts. LOINC carries more than 18 000 distinct parts. It is necessary to have definitions/descriptions for each of these parts to assist users in mapping local laboratory codes to LOINC. It is believed that much of this information can be obtained from the inter...

We introduce the concept of Many Systems Concurrency Control (MSCC). We describe how MSCC can provide a scalable solution for shared state access in multiprocessor architectures. When contention for shared state increases we can afford additional resources to maintain overall performance. To achieve scalability we introduce the concept of no-wait synchronization. No-wait synchronization describ...

1 . Kingwell BA, Thompson JM, Kaye DM, McPherson GA, Jennings GL, Esler MD: Heart rate spectral analysis, cardiac norepinephrine spillover, and muscle sympathetic nerve activity during human sympathetic nervous activation and failure. Circulation 1994; 90:234 40 2. Magnusdottir H, Kirno K, Ricksten S-E, Elam M: High thoracic epidural anesthesia does not inhibit sympathetic nerve activity in the...

The human nuclear factor related to kappa-B-binding protein (NFRKB) is a 1299-residue protein that is a component of the metazoan INO80 complex involved in chromatin remodeling, transcription regulation, DNA replication and DNA repair. Although full length NFRKB is predicted to be around 65% disordered, comparative sequence analysis identified several potentially structured sections in the N-te...

Surveys for nearby low-luminosity dwarfs tend to avoid the crowded regions of the Galactic Plane. We have devised near-infrared colour-magnitude and colour-colour selection criteria designed to identify late-type M and early-type L dwarfs within 12 parsecs of the Sun. We use those criteria to search for candidates within the regions of the Galactic Plane (|b| < 10 o) covered by the Second Incre...

Introduction: Fine Needle Aspiration Cytology not only confirms the presence of metastatic disease, but also gives clues regarding the nature and origin of the primary tumour. Study Design: The study material comprised of all aspirates (1978 aspirates from 1255 patients) from the neck lymph nodes during the period January 2003 to December 2003. All hematolymphoid neoplasms were excluded. The FN...

In this paper, several resampling schemes to estimate the sampling distributions of median estimators of the inter-event time of a recurrent event are introduced and studied through simulations. Two types of recurrent event models are considered: first is a model where the inter-event times are independent and identically distributed, and second is a model where the inter-event times are associ...

Feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV), a feline lentivirus related to HIV, causes immune dysfunction in domestic andwild cats. The Pallas’ cat is the only species fromAsia known to harbor a species-specific strain of FIV designated FIVOma in natural populations. Here, a 25% seroprevalence of FIV is reported from 28wildMongolian Pallas’ cats sampled from 2000 to 2008. Phylogenetic analysis of prov...

In their latest critique [1], Brown et al. verify the primary statistical results of our 2015 PLoS ONE report [2]. The results Brown et al. report for their mixed effect linear model analyses of our Confirmation study and pooled Discovery and Confirmation studies in their Table 3 [1] are nearly identical to the results we reported in our Tables 2 and 3 [2]. Nevertheless, Brown et al. continue t...