Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) Label Switched Paths (LSPs) may be established using the Resource Reservation Protocol Traffic Engineering (RSVP-TE) extensions. This protocol includes an object (the SESSION_ATTRIBUTE object) that carries a Flags field used to indicate options and attributes of the LSP. That Flags field has eight bits allowing for eight options to be set. Recent proposals i...

Represented Coxeter matroids of types Cn and Dn, that is, symplectic and orthogonal matroids arising from totally isotropic subspaces of symplectic or (even-dimensional) orthogonal spaces, may also be represented in buildings of type Cn and Dn, respectively (see [4, Chapter 7]). Indeed, the particular buildings involved are those arising from the flags or oriflammes, respectively, of totally is...

BACKGROUND A low cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) white-blood cell count (WBC) has been identified as an independent risk factor for adverse outcome in adults with bacterial meningitis. Whereas a low CSF WBC indicates the presence of sepsis with early meningitis in patients with meningococcal infections, the relation between CSF WBC and outcome in patients with pneumococcal meningitis is not understoo...

Objective The aim of the study was to estimate the impact of whole-body cryotherapy (WBC) on cardiovascular risk factors in patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS). Material and Methods We investigated the effect of WBC with subsequent kinesiotherapy on markers of inflammation, oxidative stress, lipid profile, and atherosclerosis plaque in male AS patients (WBC group). To assess the disease...

Red flags in neuro-ophthalmology Some diseases of the brain presenting with visual symptoms are life threatening and need urgent management. This article discusses possible causes of double vision, vision loss with headache, and non-ocular vision loss. T he three most important 'red flag' symptoms that indicate that a patient may need neuro-ophthalmological assessment are: 1 Sudden onset of dou...

Computation of quickest paths has undergoing a rapid development in recent years. It turns out that many high-performance route planning algorithms are made up of several basic ingredients. However, not all of those ingredients have been analyzed in a dynamic scenario where edge weights change after preprocessing. In this work, we present how one of those ingredients, i.e., Arc-Flags can be app...

OBJECTIVE To present a case series of patients previously diagnosed as multiple sclerosis (MS) which were later confirmed as an alternative diagnosis, and describe the clinical and paraclinical signs that led to this change. METHOD Nine patients are described. We reviewed the patient's clinical chart, magnetic resonance images (MRI) and cerebrospinal fluid. RESULTS There was a mean of three...

background: ischemic heart disease and acute myocardial infarction is one of the most dramatic manifestations in one of the most investigated fields in the past few decades. in this study, the prognostic value of white blood cells count in patients with myocardial infarction (mi) was investigated in a six months follow-up. methods: in this cohort study, 106 patients with mi were investigated. w...

objective: inflammation is one of the major components of asthma. our aim was to evaluate the effects of c. sativus extract on total and differential white blood cells (wbc) count in lung lavage fluid (llf) of ovalbumin-sensitized rats. materials and methods: forty rats were divided into five groups (n = 8 for each group) as control (c), sensitized with injection and inhalation of ovalbumin (oa...