BACKGROUND Nasal congestion at night is thought to have a role in snoring and sleep apnea, but this hypothesis has not previously been tested in a population-based study. METHODS Baseline and 5-year follow-up data on self-reported nocturnal nasal congestion and snoring frequency were collected from a population-based sample of 4916 men and women (age range, 30-60 years at baseline) enrolled i...

The Internet has recently been evolving from homogeneous congestion control to heterogeneous congestion control. Several years ago, Internet traffic was mainly controlled by the traditional AIMD algorithm, whereas Internet traffic is now controlled by many different TCP algorithms, such as AIMD, BIC, CUBIC, and CTCP. However, there is very little work on the performance and stability study of t...

While there are several advantages that can be attributed to the use of autonomous vehicles for personal mobility, their overall impact on surrounding traffic and levels of congestion is as of yet, poorly understood. A crucial stepping stone towards a better understanding of the relation between large fleets of autonomous vehicles and urban congestion is the creation of a predictive model of ur...

as wireless networks with high data rate get widely deployed, improving the performance of tcp over these networks plays vital role. wireless link losses have dramatic adverse impact on tcp performance due to the difficulty in distinguishing the congestion losses from wireless link losses. we first, studied the various existing bandwidth estimation algorithms over the wireless networks. in this...

Congestion indicates an economic state where inputs are overly invested. Evidence of congestion occurs whenever reducing some inputs can increase outputs. In this paper, we present a new model to identify and evaluate congestion in Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). We use output efficient DMUs to construct our proposed model to evaluate congestion. We also proposed a linear inequality and equali...

We study the inefficiency of equilibrium outcomes in bottleneck congestion games. These games model situations in which strategic players compete for a limited number of facilities. Each player allocates his weight to a (feasible) subset of the facilities with the goal to minimize the maximum (weight-dependent) latency that he experiences on any of these facilities. We derive upper and (asympto...

During treatment of acute heart failure (AHF), worsening renal function is often complicated and results in a complex clinical course. Furthermore, renal dysfunction is a strong independent predictor of long-term adverse outcomes in patients with AHF. Traditionally, the predominant cause of renal dysfunction has been attributed to impairment of cardiac output and relative underfilling of arteri...

Analytical VLSI placement techniques achieved high solution quality and strong extensibility based on smooth approximation of placement objective and constraints. However, significant room still exist for VLSI placement to improve. We observe at least two sources of placement complexity and inaccuracy, namely, poor predictability for placement metrics and poor controllability of placement const...

Empirical research on the relationship between market congestion and the market competitive level largely falsifies the positive relationship predicted by theoretical models. In this paper, I exploit the airline industry network structure and focus on the level of congestion during periods in which passengers cross-connect to their final destinations. About 70% of hub airport flights depart or ...

A Mobile ad-hoc network (MANET) is a self configuring infrastructure less network of mobile devices connected by wireless links. In MANET the proper maintenance of resources and link to avoid congestion is main issues. In this paper our motive is to get better utilization of resources and avoid congestion. For communication system uses queuing techniques, Traditional queuing techniques like Dro...