The efficiency of a parallel execution is always underlined. Many parallel programs, however, don’t run efficiently upon Networks of Workstations for a variety of reasons such as frequent accesses of remote memories. In this article we present a hardware-based monitoring system which uses a hardware monitor to keep watch of all of the underlying transactions on the network and allows tools to u...

BACKGROUND Survival of childhood cancer patients is often described in specialized hospitals and/or institutions, but not in the general population. METHODS The trends and patterns of childhood cancer survival during 20 years were investigated using the Osaka Cancer Registry's data. The study subjects were 3443 reported cases diagnosed as having the first primary cancer between 1975 and 1994 ...

107 patients with neonatal tetanus were studied and the value of intrathecal antitetanus serum with steroid was noted. The mortality rate in a control group (68%) was significantly higher than that of the test group (37%). Furthermore, a delay in antitetanus serum administration was found to have a strong positive linear correlation with the mortality rate. In fact, the mortality rate for neona...

AIM: The aim of this work is to investigate the clinical value gelsolin plasma concentration in diagnosis sepsis and relationship between severity organ dysfunction assessed by acute physiology chronic health evaluation (APACHE II) SOFA scores, study mortality predictive power concentration.
 METHODS: We analyzed data patients admitted with (n = 46) for 5 days. Age- sex-matched non-specifi...

OBJECTIVE The impacts of hepatitis C virus (HCV) and hepatitis B virus (HBV) infections on patient and renal graft survivals are controversial. This study sought to evaluate the effects of pretransplantation HCV and HBV infections on renal transplant patients and their grafts at our center. PATIENTS AND METHODS We retrospectively examined 1224 renal transplantations performed between 1992 and...

The prevalence of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) increases with advancing age. In most countries renal transplant recipients are getting older, too. Transplantation must be considered for ESRD patients older than 60 years; however, there are few data regarding outcomes in this population. We retrospectively reviewed the clinical course of recipients aged > or =60 years (n = 43) who underwent pr...

The purpose of this study was to assess the impact of a corticosteroid-free maintenance immunosuppression on graft survival in kidney transplantation. We analyzed 79 patients who were transplanted between June 1, 2006 and May 31, 2007. We excluded hyperimmunized patients, second transplantations, living donors, and black recipients. Patients underwent induction with thymoglobulin or basiliximab...