The USGS National Strong Motion Program (NSMP), in cooperation with 17 partners, currently operates a permanent network of more than 675 digital and 265 analog strong motion instruments. These recorders, each with 3 to 18 channels of data, are located at 673 sites, including ground motion reference sites and structural arrays, distributed throughout 32 states and Puerto Rico. About half of thes...

In ours days data centers provide the global community an indispensable service: nearly unlimited access to almost any kind of information we can imagine by supporting most Internet services such as: Web hosting and E-commerce services. Because of their capacity and their work, data centers have various impacts on the environment, but those related with the electricity use are by far the most i...

BACKGROUND Since the results from the randomized TARGIT A trial were published, intraoperative radiotherapy (IORT) is used more often. IORT can be provided as accelerated partial breast irradiation (APBI) or as a boost. The definition of suitable patients for IORT as APBI differs between different national societies (e.g. ESTRO and ASTRO) and different inclusion criteria of trials and so does t...

Security is the major obstacles of the long dreamed vision of cloud computing. The sensitive application data are moved into the cloud data centres and run on virtual computing resources in the form of virtual device. The user concerns about cloud computing is its security. Enterprise data centres, Internet Data Centres (IDC) and service provider’s offer racks and networks, and the remaining de...

IDC in soybean has been improved through conventional breeding approaches (Cianzio, 1991; Cianzio and Soybean [Glycine max. (L.) Merr.] breeders have improved resisVoss, 1994; Hintz et al., 1987), IDC-resistant lines may tance to iron-deficiency chlorosis (IDC) using conventional breeding have lower yield potential than IDC-susceptible cultiapproaches; however, many IDC-resistant cultivars have...

BACKGROUND Patients with idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy (IDC) have impaired coronary flow reserve (CFR) and reduced CFR has been reported to be a poor prognostic indicator and independent predictor of subsequent cardiac events in patients with IDC. Serum gamma-glutamyltransferase (GGT) level is an independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Therefore, we aimed to determine whether se...

The Image Difference Captioning (IDC) task aims to describe the visual differences between two similar images with natural language. major challenges of this lie in aspects: 1) fine-grained that require learning stronger vision and language association 2) high-cost manual annotations leads limited supervised data. To address these challenges, we propose a new modeling framework following pre-tr...

Autoimmune mechanisms are likely involved in the pathogenesis of idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy (IDC) and components of MHC may serve as markers for the propensity to develop immune-mediated myocardial damage. This study was conducted to investigate the possible association between HLA-DQA1, -DQB1 alleles and IDC in Han population from northern China by using PCR-based sequence-specific prim...

In the endeavor of finding ways for easy data access for external researchers remote data access seems to be an attractive alternative to the current standard of data perturbation or restricted access only at designated data archives or research data centers. However, even if the microdata are not available directly, disclosure of sensitive information is still possible. We illustrate that an i...