BACKGROUND We report a female patient with endocrine abnormalities, hypogonadotropic hypogonadism and amazia (breasts aplasia/hypoplasia but normal nipples and areolas) in a rare syndrome: Van Maldergem syndrome (VMS). CASE PRESENTATION Our patient was first evaluated at age 4 for intellectual disability, craniofacial features, and auditory malformations. At age 15, she presented with no brea...

Blue rubber bleb nevus syndrome (BRBNS) is a rare vascular disorder characterized by multiple venous malformations (VMs) of the skin, gastrointestinal tract, and other organs. To date, several cases of sporadic BRBNS involving various parts of the pregnant woman's body have been reported; however, BRBNS in pregnancy with spinal epidural involvement has not been reported. Here, we describe the c...

We present updates to the Speech Recognition Virtual Kitchen (SRVK) environment, a repository of pre-configured Virtual Machines (VMs) containing tools and experiments in the speech and language field. SRVK promotes community sharing of research techniques, fosters innovative experimentation, and provides solid reference systems as a tool for education, research, and evaluation. VMs provide a c...

Virtual machines (VMs) and multi-core multi-threading microprocessors (MMMP) are two emerging technologies in software and hardware, respectively, and they are expected to become pervasive on computer systems in the near future. However, the nature of resource sharing on an MMMP introduces contention among VMs which are scheduled onto the cores and the threads that share the processor computati...

In a multi-tenant cloud, a number of Virtual Machines (VMs) are collocated on the same physical machine to optimize performance, power consumption and maximize profit. This, however, increases the risk of a malicious VM performing side-channel attacks and leaking sensitive information from neighboring VMs. To this end, this paper develops and analyzes a game-theoretic framework for the VM migra...

The diagnosis and treatment of the possible visual sequelae in those with traumatic brain injury (TBI) represents an important area of health care in this special population. One of their most prevalent yet elusive visual symptoms is visual motion sensitivity (VMS). In this review, we present the basic VMS phenomenon and its related symptoms, clinical studies in the area, clinical research inve...

Virtual machine (VM) placement is very important for cloud platforms. While techniques, such as live virtual machine migration, are very useful to balance the load in the data centers, they are expensive operations. In this position paper, we propose to minimize the chance of the load hot spots in the data center by applying the workload patterns of the VMs in the virtual machine placement algo...

Virtualization-based cloud computing platforms allow multiple virtual machines (VMs) running on the same physical machine. Efficient allocation of limited underlying resources has been a key issue. This paper presents an efficient CPU resources dynamic allocation scheme (CRDA). CRDA uses the allocated credits and consumed credits to diagnose the CPU resources requirements of VMs and dynamically...

We analyze: (i) use of virtualization to facilitate fault injection into non-virtualized systems, and (ii) use of fault injection to evaluate the dependability of virtualized systems. With the Xen Virtual Machine Monitor (VMM) as a test case, for (i), we injected thousands of faults into the code, memory, and registers of paravirtualized and fullyvirtualized Virtual Machines (VMs) from within t...

The ventromedial striatum (VMS) is a node in circuits underpinning both affect and reinforcement learning. The cellular bases of these functions and especially their potential linkages have been unclear. VMS cholinergic interneurons, however, have been singled out as being related both to affect and to reinforcement-based conditioning, raising the possibility that unique aspects of their signal...