DOURING the process of studying the physical damage and traumatic effects of various instruments on tooth structure, it became apparent that some consideration should be given to the Hunter-Schreger band formation as it exists in enamel structure. When examined by reflected light, these bands appear as alternating light and dark areas in the enamel portion of a longitudinal groundtooth section,...

OBJECTIVE Among people with Marfan syndrome who have a typical aortic root aneurysm, dissection is a characteristic cause of premature death. To pre-empt Type A dissection, composite root replacement with a mechanical valve became the standard of care in the 1980s and 1990s. This is being superseded by valve-sparing aortic root replacement to avoid lifelong anticoagulation. In 2004, a total roo...

We propose a theory of player turnover in long-term relationships according to which replacement of players suspected of deviation with new players mitigates inefficiency arising from imperfect (public) monitoring even if doing so requires compensating the suspected deviators adequately for them to leave voluntarily. Our theory encompasses turnover allowing and disallowing payment to the depart...

With the rapid development of the cloud computing and big data, many data center network are growing more large scale, and the number of servers is increasing at an exponential rate. In this paper, VCG (Vickrey-Clarke-Groves) mechanism was introduced into replica placement. Mapping from replica placement model to VCG mechanism was established and suitable payment function was designed. Data sto...

Replication is used in data grids to improve the efficiency of user requests. One or more copies of files are stored on storage components, replicas, in the data grid. Currently, users send their requests directly to these replicas. There is no control over a request once it leaves the user. The focus of this paper is controlling workload traffic at data grid replicas, by managing the flow of r...

Restoring and non-restoring divider has become widely applicability in the era of digital computing application due to its computation speed. In this paper, we have proposed the design of divider of different architecture for the computation of Vedic sutra based. The design of divider in the Vedic mode results in high computation throughput due to its replica architecture, where latency is mini...

The purpose of our work is to realize a load balancing of nodes in a P2P network. A replica management protocol, which exploits replicas for balancing loads of each node managing popular data, by adapting replica partition trees to a balanced tree overlay network called BATON, for BAlanced Tree Overlay Network, is proposed for this. BATON has a load balancing mechanism where each node adjusts t...

The replica exchange statistical temperature molecular dynamics (RESTMD) algorithm is presented, designed to alleviate an extensive increase of the number of replicas required as system size increases in the conventional temperature replica exchange method (tREM), and to obtain improved sampling in individual replicas. RESTMD optimally integrates multiple STMD (Phys. Rev. Lett. 2006, 97, 050601...