As infrastructure-as-a-service clouds become more popular, cloud providers face the complicated problem of maximizing their resource utilization by handling the dynamics of user demand. Auction-based pricing, such as Amazon EC2 spot pricing, provides an option for users to use idle resources at highly reduced yet dynamic prices; under such a pricing scheme, users place bids for cloud resources,...

an indexing spot in the microarray is an effective approach to alert for heterophilic antibody interference in antibody microarray–based immunoassays; however, results obtained with the unrelated monoclonal antibodies of the index spot may not be totally the same as the capture antibodies in an antibody array. As more samples are tested, samples with confusing results that cannot be interpreted...

The aim of this study was to identify the fragment's shape by evaluating olecranon fractures. We examined the CT images of 48 olecranon fractures (28 women and 20 men). Mean age was 59.9 years. On the olecranon's posterior surface, we measured the distance between the apex of the olecranon fragment and the radial edge of the flat spot on the short axis and the width of the flat spot on the same...

Memory Spot is a microchip developed by HP Labs at Bristol. Compared to Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) devices, Smart Cards and other Near-Field Communication (NFC) devices, this chip provides much larger storage capacity, faster data transfer rate, and smaller physical dimensions. The chip is normally passive and is energized by an external reader/writer over the Radio Frequency (RF) ch...

The present experiment investigated the development of implicit and explicit knowledge during concept learning. According to Cleeremans and Jiménez (2002), the content of a representation can be conscious only when the representation is of a sufficiently good quality; on this theory, increasing explicit and decreasing implicit knowledge might be expected with training. The view that implicit kn...

In previous experiments, 125I-labeled 1F5 (anti-CD20)was found to kill B-lymphoma cells efficiently and specifically.Unexpectedly, the number of antibody (Ab) molecules taken up per cell was much larger than the number of antigen sites on the cell surface. The present studies were designed to explain this apparent discrepancy. Incubation with fluorophore-conjugated 1F5, using the Raji cell line...

We present surface temperature maps for the FK Comae-type star HD 199178 (V1794 Cygni) calculated from high resolution spectra obtained in 1994 and 1995. The spot pattern evolves, but all maps reveal a large cool spot remaining nearly at the same high latitude. The main spot is 1200 – 1600 K cooler than the mean surface temperature. The observed slightly flat bottomed absorption lines would usu...

There are two methods to search the spot in the microarray DNA chip: Grid method and Circle template image method. However, these methods have the drawback that they are slow. To solve this problem in a recent study, applying the running algorithm using a box template image reduced the time by 1/10. However, there was a drop in accuracy when comparing accuracy with Grid and Circle template matc...

Experimental studies have suggested that protective genes protect allografts from cardiac allograft vasculopathy (CAV), the major complication after cardiac transplantation. Here we have sought to confirm this hypothesis using long-term heart transplant recipients. Twenty-two patients that were 9 years or older after transplant were investigated; 11 of these were without angiographic evidence o...

Experimental studies have suggested that protective genes protect allografts from cardiac allograft vasculopathy (CAV), the major complication after cardiac transplantation. Here we have sought to confirm this hypothesis using long-term heart transplant recipients. Twenty-two patients that were 9 years or older after transplant were investigated; 11 of these were without angiographic evidence o...