Thank you for your letter and for the reviewers’comments concerning our manuscript entitled "Parathyroid cysts: experience of a rare phenomenon at a single institution" (BSUR-D-1700306R1). Those comments are all valuable and very helpful for revising and improving our paper, as well as the important guiding significance to our researches. We have studied comments carefully and have made correct...

The Mangalore and Udupi region on the south-west coast of India is characterized by small west-flowing rivers (150-250 km in length) originating in the Western Ghats (up to 1940 meters above sea level (m asl)) and joining the Arabian Sea. The area experiences a humid tropical climate with frequent, high-intensity rainfall (4000 mm annual average). Nevertheless, there is a shortage of water duri...

Reservoir sampling is a well-known technique for random sampling over data streams. In many streaming applications, however, an input stream may be naturally heterogeneous, i.e., composed of substreams whose statistical properties may also vary considerably. For this class of applications, the conventional reservoir sampling technique does not guarantee a statistically sufficient number of tupl...

With the era of big data coming, the data streams are fast, continuous, and unbounded. The real-time requirements of the data streams processing results are very high. A large number of researches have been on Frequent Co-occurrence Patterns across multiple data streams. But those algorithms are centralized, which is worked on a single compute node. The memory of a single compute node and CPU c...

PURPOSE We developed an elastic, transparent, life-size model of the cranial vessels that allowed us to visualize carotid artery flows directly, and wish to report our observations and recorded data. MATERIALS AND METHODS The brachiocephalic arteries of 12 adult cadavers were cannulated and infused with acrylic. The heads were dissolved in alkali and, using a "lost wax" technique, a silicone ...

Galaxy harassment has been proposed as a physical process that morphologically transforms low surface density disc galaxies into dwarf elliptical galaxies in clusters. It has been used to link the observed very different morphology of distant cluster galaxies (relatively more blue galaxies with ’disturbed’ morphologies) with the relatively large numbers of dwarf elliptical galaxies found in nea...

II. BACKGROUND, RESEARCH OBJECTIVES AND SIGNIFICANCE A. Nitrogen cycling in streams Nitrogen is an element of considerable interest in lotic ecosystems. It limits productivity in some flowing waters (e. g. Grimm and Fisher 1986), while in others it is present to such excess that legislators have called for a 50% reduction by the year 2000 ( Haycock et al. 1993). In the U. S. nitrogen loading ha...

Organic matter dynamics were studied in five streams at Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory. Three of these streams drained logged watersheds, and two drained reference deciduous forest watersheds. Litter inputs to the streams draining disturbed watersheds were significantly lower than to reference streams. Additionally, while undisturbed litterfall consisted primarily of relatively refractory leaf s...

Subtropical western boundary currents are warm, fast-flowing currents that form on the western side of ocean basins. They carry warm tropical water to the mid-latitudes and vent large amounts of heat and moisture to the atmosphere along their paths, affecting atmospheric jet streams and mid-latitude storms, as well as ocean carbon uptake1–4. The possibility that these highly energetic currents ...

Mosquito larval surveillance for environmental monitoring and pest-control purposes was conducted monthly at dredged soil-dumping areas during the construction of a new harbor in Yongcheon Bay, approximately 5 km SE of Jinhae, on the SW side of Namsan (Mt. Nam) and across the bay from Su-do (Su Island) in Gyeongsangnam Province, Republic of Korea (ROK) from November 2007 through April 2008. Dur...