BACKGROUND Morning blood pressure (BP) surge (MS), defined by the MS amplitude, is an independent prognostic factor of cardiovascular outcomes in some, but not all, populations. METHOD AND RESULTS We enrolled 2020 participants (1029 men; aged 30-79 years) with 24-hour ambulatory BP data. During a median 19.7-year follow-up, 607 deaths (182 by cardiovascular causes) were confirmed from the Nat...

Software Transactional Memories (STMs) are emerging as a potentially disruptive programming paradigm. Due to scalability and fault-tolerance requirements, Distributed STMs (DSTMs) are receiving more attention. Database management systems and STMs share the same key abstraction: atomic transactions. However, database and memory transactions have very distinct characteristics. Database replicatio...

BACKGROUND Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) is an effective treatment for Major Depressive Disorder (MDD), and is based upon delivery of focal high-energy pulses of electromagnetic stimulation. We postulated that delivery of rTMS at the subject's individual alpha frequency (synchronized TMS, or sTMS) would achieve efficacy with lower energy of stimulation. We developed a devi...

The transferability of genome specific sequence tagged microsatellite sites (STMS) primers from V. unguiculata (cowpea), V. radiata (mung bean) and V. angularis (adzuki bean) to all major pulse yielding taxa belonging to tribe Phaseolae was examined. The adzuki bean derived primers amplified microsatellites from majority of accessions analyzed in this study; whereas mung bean and cowpea derived...

A monocyte-derived factor that stimulates the locomotion of human neutrophils on an albumin-coated glass surface has been prepared from the culture supernatant of dexamethasone-treated human monocytes and called STMS (steroid-treated monocyte supernatant). A modified cell tracking program has been developed and the parameters of locomotion determined by the analysis of Gail and Boone for cells ...

The introduction of general purpose computing on many-core graphics processor systems, and the general shift in the industry towards parallelism, has created a demand for ease of parallelization. Software transactional memory (STM) simplifies development of concurrent code by allowing the programmer to mark sections of code to be executed concurrently and atomically in an optimistic manner. In ...

Limiting the serum protein fouling is a major challenge in design of nanoparticles (NPs) for nanomedicine applications. Suitable chemical surface modification strategies allow to limit interactions with adsorbing proteins. In this communication, we address potential isobutyramide (IBAM) groups grafted on stellate silica (STMS) immobilization two biocompatible polymers renown biomedical and low ...

This technical memo provides a syntactic and semantic basis for state transition diagrams (STDs) as they are used for the description of state transition machines (STMs) with input and output. STMs serve for the specification of system components. We work with STDs with transition rules labelled by input and output patterns and preand postconditions. We extend our notation to support specificat...

An effective way to reduce the number of aborts in software transactional memory (STM) is to keep multiple versions of transactional objects. In this paper, we study inherent properties of STMs that use multiple versions to guarantee successful commits of all read-only transactions. We first show that these STMs cannot be disjoint-access parallel. We then consider the problem of garbage collect...

An effective way to reduce the number of aborts in software transactional memory (STM) is to keep multiple versions of transactional objects. In this paper, we study inherent properties of STMs that use multiple versions to guarantee successful commits of all read-only transactions. We first show that these STMs cannot be disjoint-access parallel. We then consider the problem of garbage collect...