Decomposable combinatorial structures have been well studied and a systematic manner for determining generating function equations is well known. Attribute grammars have enhanced the study of context-free grammars by giving meaning to constructions. Delest and F edou 2] showed that attribute grammars extend to combinatorial structures, with applications to random generation. In a similar way, w...

Two-Year Outcome of a Randomized Trial Comparing Second-Generation Drug-Eluting Stents Using Biodegradable or Durable Polymer Recentnetworkmeta-analyseshave raisedconcerns about the safety of biodegradable polymerdrug-eluting stents (BP-DES) compared with durable polymer everolimus-eluting stents (DP-EES).1-3 The NOBORI Biolimus-Eluting vs XIENCE/ PROMUSEverolimus-ElutingStentTrial (NEXT) is a9...

Three major models (from Tofts, Larsson, and Brix) for collecting and analyzing dynamic MRI gadolinium-diethylenetriamine penta-acetic acid (GI-DTPA) data are examined. All models use compartments representing the blood plasma and the abnormal extravascular extracellular space (EES), and they are intercompatible. All measure combinations of three parameters: (1) kPSp is the influx volume transf...

Distributed Shared Memory (dsm) architectures are attractive to execute high performance parallel applications. Made up of a large number of components , these architectures have however a high probability of failure. We propose a protocol to tolerate node failures in two classes of dsm architectures: Cache Only Memory Architectures (coma) and Distributed Virtual Shared Memory (svm) systems. Th...

BACKGROUND Controversies have been observed among network meta-analyses comparing biodegradable polymer drug-eluting stents (BP-DES) with durable polymer drug-eluting stents (DP-DES). We aimed to compare the adverse cardiovascular events associated with BP-DES and durable polymer everolimus-eluting stents (DP-EES) using a large number of patients obtained from randomized controlled trials (RCTs...

Abstract Funding Acknowledgements Type of funding sources: None. Background Left ventricular (LV) ejection fraction (LVEF) is most commonly used validated echocardiographic parameter systolic function estimation, but left global longitudinal strain (GLS) an early indicator subclinical cardiac dysfunction, even when LVEF normal. Purpose To investigate ventriculo – arterial coupling (VAC) and LV ...

Objective Evidence suggests that keratinocyte–fibroblast interactions are abnormal in systemic sclerosis (SSc). The present study was undertaken to investigate potential epidermal dysfunction SSc and its effects on dermal homeostasis. Methods Epidermal equivalents (EEs) were generated using keratinocytes from 6 healthy donors 4 individuals with SSc. Skin EE expression of markers proliferation, ...

Mutations in the phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate (PtdIns4,5P(2)) 5-phosphatase OCRL cause Lowe syndrome, which is characterised by congenital cataracts, central hypotonia, and renal proximal tubular dysfunction. Previous studies have shown that OCRL interacts with components of the endosomal machinery; however, its role in endocytosis, and thus the pathogenic mechanisms of Lowe syndrome, ...

Empty elements (EEs) play a critical role in Chinese syntactic, semantic and discourse analysis. Previous studies employ a language-independent sentence-level approach to EE recovery, by casting it as a linear tagging or structured parsing problem. In comparison, this paper proposes a clauselevel hybrid approach to address specific problems in Chinese EE recovery, which recovers EEs in Chinese ...

Extraskeletal Ewing’ sarcoma (EES) is a rare soft tissue tumor morphologically indistinguishable from the osseous Ewing’s sarcoma (ES). We report a case of recurrent EES of the breast that, to the best of our knowledge, has rarely been reported. It was initially confused for a cyst on ultrasound. In addition, MRI and breast-specific gamma imaging (BSGI) in our case have complementary value over...