BACKGROUND Uveal melanoma (UM) is a disease that affects approximately five people per million in the United States. This disease metastasises predominantly to the liver, and treatment options following the clinical detection of these sequelae are limited. Vascular endothelial growth factor-A (VEGF-A) is the primary activator of tumour angiogenesis and functions by binding to VEGF-Receptor 2 (V...

We compare the dynamic range of OCT/OCM instruments configured with unbalanced interferometers, e.g., Michelson interferometers, with that of instruments utilizing balanced interferometers and balanced photodetection. We define the dynamic range (DR) as the ratio of the maximum fringe amplitude achieved with a highly reflecting surface to the rootmean-square (rms) noise. Balanced systems achiev...

The OCM (Objects, Components, Models) group of the computer science department at Ecole des Mines de Nantes is interested in Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP). This report is a collection of three short articles presenting work in progress at our lab. We focus on two approaches: AOP from a monitoring perspective (articles 1 and 2) and different approaches to achieve AOP weaving (article 3). Whe...

1— The non-fragmentable nature of Ethernet data frames, as well as operation of the priority oriented packet schedulers in the Optical Network Units (ONUs) along with heavy network load conditions and the lack of detailed knowledge about the queues composition at the Optical Line Terminal (OLT) level, result in the creation of upstream channel slot remainders. Non-preemptive packet schedulers a...