With aggressive superscalar processors delivering diminishing returns, alternate designs that make good use of the increasing chip densities are actively being explored. One such approach is simultaneous multithreading (SMT), where a conventional superscalar supports multiple threads such that instructions from different threads may be issued in a single cycle. Another approach is the on-chip m...

Due to the importance of the growth of biotechnology in Taiwan, the question of how the operation performance of the industry can be upgraded to sustain its competitive advantages has become an important question for Taiwanese biotechnology insiders. Recently, a growing number of organizations have implemented TQM in order to give them a competitive advantage [Chan, T. H., & Quazi, H. A. (2002)...

for −∞ < z < ∞. The properties of this distribution and its generalizations have been studied by several authors. Of particular eminence are the numerous papers on this topic by Professor N. Balakrishnan and his colleagues; see, for example, Balakrishnan [1, 2, 3], Balakrishnan and Aggarwala [4], Balakrishnan et al. [5, 7, 12], Balakrishnan and Chan [6], Balakrishnan and Joshi [8], Balakrishnan...

1. Wiersema MJ, Hawes RH, Tao LC, et al. Endoscopic ultrasonography as an adjunct to fine needle aspiration cytology of the upper and lower gastrointestinal tract. Gastrointest Endosc 1992;38: 35–39. 2. Gress F, Gottlieb K, Sherman S, et al. Endoscopic ultrasonography-guided fine-needle aspiration biopsy of suspected pancreatic cancer. Ann Intern Med 2001;134:459–464. 3. Lee JH, Stewart J, Ross...

While many segmentation methods rely heavily in some way on edge detection, the “Active Contours Without Edges” method by Chan and Vese [7, 9] ignores edges completely. Instead, the method optimally fits a two-phase piecewise constant model to the given image. The segmentation boundary is represented implicitly with a level set function, which allows the segmentation to handle topological chang...

BACKGROUND The Zeus® (Dräger, Lübeck, Germany), an automated closed-circuit anesthesia machine, uses high fresh gas flows (FGF) to wash-in the circuit and the lungs, and intermittently flushes the system to remove unwanted N₂. We hypothesized this could increase desflurane consumption to such an extent that agent consumption might become higher than with a conventional anesthesia machine (Anest...

PURPOSE To investigate the effect of simultaneously performed fluorescein angiography (FA) on full-field electroretinography (ffERG) parameters. METHOD Scotopic and photopic ffERG were performed immediately and 60 minutes after conventional FA in patients with retinal photoreceptor disorders; a-and b-wave amplitudes were compared between recordings obtained at the two time intervals in each p...