We believe that a congestion control algorithm should make flows finish quickly as quickly as possible, while staying stable and fair among flows. Recently, we proposed RCP (Rate Control Protocol) which enables typical Internet-sized flows to complete one to two orders of magnitude faster than the existing (TCP Reno) and the proposed (XCP) congestion control algorithm. Like XCP, RCP uses explic...

OBJECTIVE An electroencephalographic brain-computer interface (BCI) can provide a non-muscular means of communication for people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) or other neuromuscular disorders. We present a novel P300-based BCI stimulus presentation - the checkerboard paradigm (CBP). CBP performance is compared to that of the standard row/column paradigm (RCP) introduced by Farwell an...

Reverse convex programming (RCP) represents an important class of global optimization problems consisting of concave cost and inequality constraint functions. While useful in many practical scenarios due to the frequent appearance of concave models, a more powerful, though somewhat abstractly recognized, characteristic of the RCP problem is its ability to approximate a very general class of non...

This study was designed to discuss the effects on the brain by different protective methods in ascending aortic aneurysm surgery retrospectively. Two hundred seventy-one surgeries of ascending aortic aneurysm have been done in the past 15 years. There were 65 patients with a dissecting aneurysm of the aortic arch or right arch. To protect the brain, deep hypothermic circulatory arrest (DHCA) co...

climate change has various effects on the quantity of rainfall and warming also is lead to increases in frequency and intensity of droughts by accelerating earth drying up and consequently. it is effective on the curves of severity- duration- frequency of drought (sdf). the purpose of this study is to evaluate the effects of climate change on sdf curves in the future in qareh su basin located i...

UNLABELLED Retrograde cerebral perfusion (RCP) potentially delivers metabolic substrate to the brain during surgery using hypothermic circulatory arrest (HCA). Serial measurements of O2 extraction ratio (OER), PCO2, and pH from the RCP inflow and outflow were used to determine the time course for O2 delivery in 28 adults undergoing aortic reconstruction using HCA with RCP. HCA was instituted af...

OBJECTIVE Our study evaluated the accuracy and reliability of 3 radiochemical purity (RCP) measurement methods of 99mTc-sestamibi. A regular-sized (1.0 cm x 9.0 cm) Whatman 31 ET Chr paper strip (regular 31 ET) also was included in our evaluation because of its ease in handling. METHODS The miniaturized and regular 31 ET methods were compared with the standard RCP testing method (aluminum oxi...

Objective: Selection of a brain protection method is a primary concern for aortic arch surgery. We performed a retrospective study to compare the respective advantages and disadvantages of retrograde cerebral perfusion (RCP) and selective cerebral perfusion (SCP) in patients who underwent surgery for acute type A aortic dissection. Methods: The study reviewed 166 patients who underwent surgery ...