{In this paper, we propose a highly reliable RAID architecture called a Dual-Crosshatch Disk Array. It uses the proposed interleaved 2d-parity scheme, a low overhead triple-erasure correcting parity organization. It is a hybrid approach of RAID-4 and RAID-5 with one dedicated parity group and another parity group using block interleaved data and parity. The results obtained from simulations ind...

Extended cubical sets (with connections and interchanges) are presheaves on a ground category, the extended cubical site K, corresponding to the (augmented) simplicial site, the category of finite ordinals. We prove here that K has characterisations similar to the classical ones for the simplicial analogue, by generators and relations, or by the existence of a universal symmetric cubical monoid...

Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors (MPNST) are rare, highly aggressive sarcomas that can occur spontaneously or from pre-existing plexiform neurofibromas in neurofibromatosis type1 (NF1) patients. MPNSTs have high local recurrence rates, metastasize easily, are generally resistant to therapeutic intervention and frequently fatal for the patient. Novel targeted therapeutic strategies are u...

objective: the purpose of this study was to examine the impact of early family-centered psychological and educational interventions on adaptive behaviors in children with down syndrome (ds). method: utilizing an experimental pretest-posttest control group design, parents of 36 children with ds were selected in isfahan. vineland adaptive behavior scale was used to assess adaptive behavior. resul...

This study investigated the effects of alprostadil combined with calcium dobesilate on the treatment of diabetic nephropathy. We recruited 80 patients with diabetic nephropathy, who were randomly divided into experimental (n=40) and control (n=40) groups. Patients received high-quality low-protein diabetic diet intervention and subcutaneous injection of insulin to adjust blood glucose, combined...

conclusion: this study showed positive effect of the 2000 iu/day oral vitamin d on the serum level elevation of this vitamin in reproductive women. results: at baseline the mean serum levels of vitamin d in the control group was 23.34 ± 15.87 nmol/l and in intervention group was 25.13 ± 18.46 nmol/l, that these values didn’t have any significant difference (p = 0.43), while after intervention, ...

A recently discovered relation between 4D and 5D black holes is used to derive exact (weighted) BPS black hole degeneracies for 4D N = 8 string theory from the exactly known 5D degeneracies. A direct 4D microscopic derivation in terms of weighted 4D D-brane bound state degeneracies is sketched and found to agree.

We present a microscopic index formula for the degeneracy of dyons in four-dimensional N = 4 string theory. This counting formula is manifestly symmetric under the duality group, and its asymptotic growth reproduces the macroscopic Bekenstein-Hawking en-tropy. We give a derivation of this result in terms of the type II ve-brane compactiied on K3, by assuming that its uctuations are described by...

A number of recent papers have demonstrated that camera "selfcalibration" can be accomplished purely from image measurements, without requiring special calibration objects or known camera motion. We describe a method, based on self-calibration, for obtaining (scaled) Euclidean structure from multiple uncalibrated perspective images using only point matches between views. The method is in two st...

Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) effect from a cosmological distribution of clusters carry information on the underlying cosmology as well as the cluster gas physics. In order to study either cosmology or clusters one needs to break the degeneracies between the two. We present a toy model showing how complementary informations from SZ power spectrum and the SZ flux counts, both obtained from upcoming SZ ...