BACKGROUND Cystectomy delay >90 days after a diagnosis of muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) adversely affects pathologic stage and survival outcomes in patients who undergo primary surgery. After neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC), the impact of the timing of cystectomy delivery on these outcomes is uncertain. Poor communication between urologic and medical oncologists can result in cystectomy ...

Background & Aims: Preterm labor is often resulted in preterm births and increased rate of neonatal morbidity and mortality. Treatment consists of bedrest, hydration, pharmacologic interventions, and combinations of these. The purpose of this study was to compare the efficacy of intravenous magnesium sulfate (MgSO4) and indomethacin in the treatment of preterm labor pains. Neonatal and maternal...

Vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) have emerged as a new powerful technology for data transmission between vehicles. Efficient data transmission accompanied with low data delay plays an important role in selecting the ideal data forwarding path in VANETs. This paper proposes a new opportunity routing protocol for data forwarding based on vehicle mobility association (OVMA). With assistance from...

One of the key issues in practical speech recognition is to achieve robust gender identification. Most conventional gender identification approaches use relevant features derived from the magnitude spectrum. In this paper, we propose a novel gender identification method using a group delay function (GDF). Based on the statistical analysis of the GDF, it is found that the GDF is an effective fea...

Optimal energy delay scheduling for capacity allocation problems in interference channel harvesting wireless sensor networks (EH-WSN) address of static data streams as well power surveying. The goal is to diminish the general regression network. However, optimization problem not curved, which makes it difficult obtain optimal solution. major this document directly that original non-convex formu...

AbstractAs the construction of infrastructures becomes increasingly complex, it has often been challenged by delay with enormous losses. The delivery complex provide...

For single-source, single-tree-based peer-to-peer live media streaming, it is generally believed that a short (and wide) data delivery tree provides the best comprehensive performance in terms of reliability and service delay. While a short tree directly benefits delay optimization, it is unclear whether such a structure maximizes reliability, which is sometimes more critical for a streaming In...

We propose a multiple-delivery transport service tailored for graphics and video transported over connections with wireless access. This service operates at the interface between the transport and application layers, balancing the subjective delay and image quality objectives of the application with the low reliability and limited bandwidth of the wireless link. While techniques like forward-er...

Mobile Ad hoc Network (MANET) is a wireless network which has dynamic nature with infrastructure less without a central administration. In MANETs link failure occurs due to topological changes of mobile node which causes high data loss and delay, so the performance is enhanced by predicting the link break in prior. The most challenging fact in the routing process is affording the energy profici...

We propose a progressively reliable transport protocol for delivery of delay-sensitive multimedia over Internet connections with wireless access links. The protocol, termed “Leaky” ARQ, initially permits corrupt packets to be leaked to the receiving application and then uses retransmissions to progressively refine the quality of subsequent packet versions. A Web server would employ Leaky ARQ to...