BACKGROUND Many epidemiology studies have indicated that polymorphisms in ICAM-1 are associated with a variety of cancers, but published data are contradictory and inconclusive. Therefore, we conducted the current meta-analysis to elaborate the effects of ICAM-1 polymorphisms (rs5491, rs3093030, rs281432, and rs1799969) on cancer susceptibility. MATERIAL AND METHODS We conducted a comprehensive...

Introduction: Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a diagnostic emergency threatening patients in a major way. Pediatric renal extra purification methods are limited in African countries due to the nonavailability of resources. Peritoneal dialysis (PD) seems to be the modality that is the most practiced for children with acute renal failure (ARF). Methodology: We conducted a retrospective study on 5 ye...

We studied the prognostic value of angiogenesis grading and microvessel density estimation in newly diagnosed multiple myeloma. Seventy-five patients with newly diagnosed myeloma, treated on Eastern Cooperative Oncology Protocol E9486 and Intergroup study 0141 (S9321) at the Mayo Clinic, were studied. Bone marrow microvessels were examined using immunohistochemical staining for von Willebrand f...

0141-9331/$ see front matter 2009 Elsevier B.V. A doi:10.1016/j.micpro.2009.09.002 * Corresponding author. Tel.: +82 2 3290 4843. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (G. Lee), ysh uic.edu (H. Lin). 1 Tel.: +1 312 413 3148. This paper presents a micro-architectural enhancement, named Indirect Branch Validation Unit (IBVU), to prevent malicious attacks from compromising the control data of the pr...

0141-9331/$ see front matter 2011 Elsevier B.V. A doi:10.1016/j.micpro.2011.08.009 ⇑ Corresponding author. Tel.: +351 21 3100260; fax E-mail addresses: [email protected] (L. A (E. Costa), [email protected] (P. Flores), [email protected] Over the years many efficient algorithms for the multiplierless design of multiple constant multiplications (MCMs) have been introduced. These algorithms pri...

Introduction: Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a diagnostic emergency threatening patients in a major way. Pediatric renal extra purification methods are limited in African countries due to the nonavailability of resources. Peritoneal dialysis (PD) seems to be the modality that is the most practiced for children with acute renal failure (ARF). Methodology: We conducted a retrospective study on 5 ye...

0141-9331/$ see front matter 2012 Elsevier B.V. A http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.micpro.2012.08.004 ⇑ Corresponding author. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (F. Gru Schoeberl). Due to memory bandwidth limitations, chip multiprocessors (CMPs) adopting the convenient shared memory model for their main memory architecture scale poorly. On-chip core-to-core communication is a solution to thi...

0141-9382/$ see front matter 2011 Elsevier B.V. A doi:10.1016/j.displa.2010.12.006 ⇑ Corresponding author at: Liquid Crystal Institute Ohio 44242, USA. E-mail address: [email protected] (J. Ma). Thin-film-transistor liquid crystal displays (TFT-LCDs) are the most popular flat panel displays now. Polarizer film is one of the most important components in the TFT-LCDs, which is a multi-layered complex...

Introduction: Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a diagnostic emergency threatening patients in a major way. Pediatric renal extra purification methods are limited in African countries due to the nonavailability of resources. Peritoneal dialysis (PD) seems to be the modality that is the most practiced for children with acute renal failure (ARF). Methodology: We conducted a retrospective study on 5 ye...