“Cloud-based” Internet services rely on the availability and reliability of managed data centers. Recent events indicate that data centers tend to create centralized points of failure, and providing resilience to large-scale faults remains a significant challenge for both providers and users of cloud infrastructures. Running data centers also incurs high hardware and network costs, particularly...

cle disorder defined by the presence of a dilated and poorly functioning left ventricle in the absence of abnormal loading conditions (hypertension, valve disease) or ischaemic heart disease suYcient to cause global systolic impairment. A large number of cardiac and systemic diseases can cause systolic impairment and left ventricular dilatation, but in the majority of patients no identifiable c...

AIM To assess the correlation between mammographic features and clinicopathologic characteristics of invasive breast carcinoma. PATIENTS AND METHODS The mammographic appearance and clinicopathological data of 108 invasive ductal carcinomas were retrospective analyzed. The mammographic features were assessed according to BI-RADS by two doctors. Estrogen receptor (ER), progesterone receptor (PR...

Data Centers are the core of cloud computing as they consist of thousands of computers which are interconnected in a way to provide cloud services. A Data Center Network (DCNs) can be defined as centralized infrastructure providing several large scale computing and diversified network services like video streaming and cloud computing to its subscribed users [1]. With the proliferation of intern...

Near isogenic lines (NILs) are a critical genetic resource for the soybean research community. The ability to identify and characterize the genes driving the phenotypic differences between NILs is limited by the degree to which differential genetic introgressions can be resolved. Furthermore, the genetic heterogeneity extant among NIL sub-lines is an unaddressed research topic that might have i...

To test the hypothesis that actin dysfunction leads to heart failure, patients with hereditary idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy (IDC) were examined for mutations in the cardiac actin gene (ACTC). Missense mutations in ACTC that cosegregate with IDC were identified in two unrelated families. Both mutations affect universally conserved amino acids in domains of actin that attach to Z bands and i...

Abstract Aim Targeted Axillary Dissection (TAD) is a procedure where positive axillary nodes are clipped with view to sentinel lymph node dissection plus removal of post-neoadjuvant therapies (NACT) rather than clearance (ANC), reducing morbidity. This study aimed assess whether patients single undergoing NACT would benefit from TAD. Method Patients planned for TAD post-NACT were identified the...

Considerable progress has been made to identify genetic causation of dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM). DCM is characterized by left ventricular dilatation and systolic dysfunction, and after known causes have been excluded has been termed idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy (IDC). Studies of IDC that occurs in families, termed familial dilated cardiomyopathy (FDC) provided the initial phenotypic data...

The objective of this study was to determine whether tumor-infiltrating B cells (TIL-B) of infiltrating ductal carcinoma (IDC) of the breast represent a tumor-specific humoral immune response. Immunohistochemical analysis of three Her-2/neu-negative IDC tumors from geriatric patients showed that TIL-B cluster in structures similar to germinal centers containing CD20(+) B lymphocyte and CD3(+) T...