In the recent issue of Nephro-Urology Monthly Journal, Bayrak et al. (1) presented a prospective, single institu­ tional study to evaluate the effects of biofeedback thera­ py (BFT) on stress urinary incontinence (SUI) in women. The International Consultation on Incontinence Ques­ tionnaire – Short Form (ICIQ-SF) was utilized and ICIQ-SF scores were measured to evaluate the severity of their ur...

This article presents a lightweight Byzantine fault tolerance (BFT) framework for session-oriented multi-tiered applications. We conclude that it is sufficient to use a lightweight BFT algorithm instead of a traditional BFT algorithm, based on a comprehensive study of the threat model to, and the state model of, the session-oriented multi-tiered applications. The lightweight BFT algorithm uses ...

Byzantine failure tolerance (BFT) is one of the most fundamental problem in distributed computing and has been researched extensively. However, due to the famous impossible result of FLP, there is no perfect way to solve it. Modern BFT protocols are usually proposed with practical assumptions such as partially synchrony, encrypted messages. Yet, designing dynamic BFT system with large number of...

Byzantine Fault Tolerance (BFT) is becoming crucial with the revolution of online applications and due to the increasing number of innovations in computer technologies. Although dozens of BFT protocols have been introduced in the previous decade, their adoption by practitioners sounds disappointing. To some extant, this indicates that existing protocols are, perhaps, not yet too convincing or s...

BACKGROUND/AIMS The pathophysiologic mechanism of rectal hyposensitivity (RH) is not well documented, and the significance of RH in biofeedback therapy (BFT) has not been evaluated. Thus, we aimed to assess the effect of BFT in constipated patients according to the presence of RH. METHODS Five hundred and ninety constipated patients (238 males and 352 females) underwent anorectal physiologic ...

Purpose To compare the relationship between obesity markers Body Mass Index (BMI) and Back Fat Thickness (BFT) and oedema in the lumbo-sacral subcutaneous adipose tissue. Patients and methods A retrospective study was performed of consecutive Magnetic Resonance Imaging examinations on 149 adults (95 females and 54 males) scanned at 1.5T between October 1 and December 31, 2010. The extent of o...

OBJECTIVE Previously, we reported quantitative trait loci (QTLs) affecting backfat thickness (BFT) traits on pig chromosome 5 (SW1482-SW963) in an F2 intercross population between Landrace and Korean native pigs. The aim of this study was to evaluate glutamate receptor-interacting protein 1 (GRIP1) as a positional candidate gene underlying the QTL affecting BFT traits. METHODS Genotype and ph...

In this paper, we investigate the optimal Byzantine fault tolerance (BFT) design strategies from a game theoretical point of view. The problem of BFT is formulated as a constant-sum game played by the BFT system (defender) and its adversary (attacker). The defender resorts to replication to ensure high reliability and availability, while the attacker injects faults to the defender with the purp...

The neural selector gene cut, a homeobox transcription factor, is required for the specification of the correct identity of external (bristle-type) sensory organs in Drosophila. Targets of cut function, however, have not been described. Here, we study bereft (bft) mutants, which exhibit loss or malformation of a majority of the interommatidial bristles of the eye and cause defects in other exte...

A 70-day experimental trial was performed to evaluate the contribution of biofloc nutrition Macrobrachium rosenbergii 15 days old postlarvae (PL) (average 82.00 ± 19.71 mg) fed different crude protein (P) and lipids (L) levels in zero-water exchange culture tanks. Six treatments (BFT) as diets with 15, 20, or 25% P 5 8% L were managed: BFT-15/5; BFT-15/8; BFT-20/5; BFT-20/8; BFT-25/5; BFT-25/8,...