abstract autoimmune pancreatitis (aip) is a rare disorder that may be present as common bile duct stricture. the patient was a seventy-year-old man with presentations as recurrent abdominal pain and jaundice, elevated billirobin (bil) and elevated alkaline phosphatase (alkp) in association with the presence of hetrogenesity of the pancreatic head and dilated intra and extra hepatic bile ducts i...

Air exchange between people has emerged in the COVID-19 pandemic as important vector for transmission of SARS-CoV-2 virus. We study airflow and two unmasked individuals conversing face-to-face at short range, which can potentially transfer a high dose pathogen, because dilution is small when compared to long-range airborne transmission. conduct flow visualization experiments direct numerical si...

In this paper2 we present a routing mechanism and buffer allocation mechanism for an ATM switching fabric. Since the fabric will be used to transfer multimedia traffic it should provide a guaranteed throughput and a bounded latency. We focus on the design of a suitable routing mechanism that is capable to fulfil these requirements and is free of deadlocks. We will describe two basic concepts th...

In multicast switches, the accommodation of multicast traffic in multiple queues per input buffer reduces the throughput degradation caused by head-of-line (HOL) blocking. Such an arrangement, called multicast virtual output queuing (MC-VOQ), is very promising in theory but can only be implemented in practice with heavy approximation. Complete avoidance of the HOL blocking problem would in fact...

Thanks to Fiber-to-the-Home (FTTH) Networks offering remarkably lower cost per Mbps for multimedia communications, it has been the potential solution for the future broadband access networks. With increase of bandwidth requirement nowadays, subscribers using xDSL are changing to adopt FTTH service at a high rate for bandwidth-rich applications, such as on-line games, video-on-demand, longdistan...

Cetuximab is an immunoglobulin G1 monoclonal antibody that binds to the extracellular domain of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) blocking ligand-induced auto-phosphorylation and subsequent receptor mediated signalling.1,2 Cetuximab in combination with chemotherapy is effective in the treatment of EGFR-expressing tumors including metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC).2,3 EGFR is strongl...

We describe a novel method for scheduling highspeed network switches. The targeted architecture is an input-buffered switch with a non-blocking switch fabric. The input buffers are organized as virtual output queues to avoid head-of-line blocking. The task of the scheduler is to decide when the input ports can forward packets from the virtual output queues to the corresponding output ports. Our...

InfiniBand is a new switch-based standard interconnect for communication between processor nodes and I/O devices as well as for interprocessor communication. InfiniBand architecture allows switches to support up to 15 virtual lanes per port for data traffic. To route packets through a given virtual lane (VL), packets are labeled with a certain service level (SL) at injection time, and SLtoVL ma...

Abstract Background Head injuries are common injury in the fire service; however, very little data exist on risks this may pose to development of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression high-risk population. Aims Our study aimed compare levels PTSD symptoms firefighters with a line-of-duty head injury, non-line-of-duty no injury. Methods In cross-sectional study, we assessed curren...