Large scale systems, common in cloud computing, rely on redundancy for reliability and availability. Modern clouds have become ever-increasingly complex and diverse creating large messes that experience long outages when failures occur. While there exist significant effort in resolving faults after they occur, we propose a novel approach to untangling this mess before it occurs by auditing the ...

Growth models have been proposed for constructing the scale-free overlay topology to improve the performance of unstructured peer-to-peer (P2P) networks. However, previous growth models are able to maintain the limited scale-free topology when nodes only join but do not leave the network; the case of nodes leaving the network while preserving a precise scaling parameter is not included in the s...

In the arterial wall, scavenger receptor class A (SRA) is implicated in pathological lipid deposition. In contrast, in the liver, SRA is suggested to remove modified lipoproteins from the circulation, thereby protecting the body from their pathological action. The role of SRA on bone marrow-derived cells in lipid metabolism and atherogenesis was assessed in vivo by transplantation of bone marro...

An experiment conducted in the Mediterranean Sea in April 1996 demonstrated that a time-reversal mirror ~or phase conjugate array! can be implemented to spatially and temporally refocus an incident acoustic field back to its origin. The experiment utilized a vertical source–receiver array ~SRA! spanning 77 m of a 125-m water column with 20 sources and receivers and a single source/receiver tran...

The nuclear receptor steroidogenic factor 1 (SF-1) is essential for adrenal development and steroidogenesis. The atypical orphan nuclear receptor Dax-1 binds to SF-1 and represses SF-1 target genes. Paradoxically, however, loss-of-function mutations of Dax-1 also cause adrenal hypoplasia, suggesting that Dax-1 may function as an SF-1 coactivator under some circumstances. Indeed, we found that D...

Chronic, low-grade inflammatory responses occur in obese adipose tissue and play a crucial role in the development of insulin resistance. Macrophages exposed to high glucose upregulate the expression of SRA, a macrophage-specific scavenger receptor. The present study investigated whether Prunus yedoensis (PY) bark extract affects the inflammatory response and scavenger receptor gene expression ...

The modern concept of social responsibility states that in the due course business, enterprises should pay attention to interests stakeholders as a whole most decisions taken by company affect all stakeholders. Through these means, companies are now focusing on informing their about contribution through disclosures made annual reports. In this direction, study is being conducted with aim examin...

The background of this exploration is that schools are no longer a safe place from bullying and violence because the perpetrators teachers, principals or friends. It important to see examples capable being role models as Sekolah Ramah Anak (SRA), in case MTsN 6 Padang. This research problem analyze model Child Friendly School (SRA) at Padang, implementation policies reducing analysis theory stu...

Motivation The NCBI's Sequence Read Archive (SRA) promises great biological insight if one could analyze the data in the aggregate; however, the data remain largely underutilized, in part, due to the poor structure of the metadata associated with each sample. The rules governing submissions to the SRA do not dictate a standardized set of terms that should be used to describe the biological samp...

BACKGROUND To evaluate the possibility of left atrial (LA) remodeling using speckle tracking echocardiography (STE) in patients with interatrial block (IAB). METHODS We performed a cross-sectional study with three groups of patients: 56 without IAB, 21 with partial IAB (pIAB), and 22 with advanced IAB (aIAB). Transthoracic echocardiographic (TTE) STE was performed and clinical and echocardiog...