We investigated the role of mitochondrial genetic alterations in hepatocellular carcinoma by directly comparing the mitochondrial genomes of 86 matched pairs of HCC and non-tumor liver samples. Substitutions in 637 mtDNA sites were detected, comprising 89.80% transitions and 6.60% transversions. Forty-six somatic variants, including 15 novel mutations, were identified in 40.70% of tumor tissues...

A current limitation to component reusability is that component models target to describe a deployed assembly and thus bind the behavior of a component to the data-types it manipulates. This paper studies the feasibility of supporting genericity within component models, including component and port types. The proposed approach works by extending the meta-model of an existing component model. It...

The arterial lumen is modeled by a continuous right generalized cylinder with piece-wise constant parameters. The method is based on the identification of the parameters of each piece from a series of contours extracted along an approximate axis of the artery. This curve is defined by a minimal path between the artery end-points. The contours are extracted using the Fast Marching algorithm. The...

MODELING INTERACTIVE SCIENTIFIC VISUALIZATION APPLICATIONS WITH STRICT COLORED FIFO NETS Abderrahim Ait Wakrime, Sébastien Limet and Sophie Robert *1, 2, 3 University Orléans, INSA Centre Val de Loire, LIFO, EA 4022, F-45067, Orléans, France ABSTRACT Component-based approaches are becoming popular in recent years in the software development. The goal of these approaches is to build software sys...

Pure molybdenum powder was sintered using Spark Plasma Sintering under various temperatures, and holding times, under a pressure of 77 MPa and a heating rate at 700°C/min. After sintering, a carbide layer was observed at the surface. The carbide layer thickness, the relative density of the sample as well as the microhardness and the grain size of Mo were measured. The carbide thickness depends ...

A mechanism for overlapped I/O management operations and computation on a simd linear systolic array is presented. This mechanism is based on two synchronized controllers allowing a speedup factor of 2 over simd machines without overlapped facility. Code generation is achieved using the C-stolic language, specifically designed for the architectural features of overlapped simd systolic arrays. (...

In this article, the routing and wavelength assignment (RWA) problem for supporting multipointto-point communications in all-optical WDM mesh networks is investigated. Two efficient algorithms, namely Reverse Shortest Path Tree routing (RSPT) and kBounded Edge Disjoint Path routing (EDPR), are proposed. We proved that the problem of minimizing the total cost while establishing a multipoint-to-p...

We investigate systems of self-propelled particles with alignment interaction. Compared to previous work (Degond and Motsch, Math. Models Methods Appl. Sci. 18:1193–1215, 2008a; Frouvelle, Math. Models Methods Appl. Sci., 2012), the force acting on the particles is not normalized, and this modification gives rise to phase transitions from disordered states at low density to aligned states at hi...

Hermite subdivision algorithms are mainly designed to interpolate functional values and associated derivatives. These schemes process non-scalar data (functional values and derivatives), and can be rewritten as non-stationary vector algorithms, although their non-stationarity is of a very specific kind. In this talk we present new families of approximating subdivision schemes derived from inter...