Effective and congestion-aware routing is vital to the performance of network-on-chip. The efficient routing algorithm undoubtedly relies on the considered selection strategy. If the routing function returns a number of more than one permissible output ports, a selection function is exploited to choose the best output port to reduce packets latency. In this paper, we introduce a new selection s...

The prevailing model of bacterial membrane function predicts that the outer membrane is permeable to most small solutes because of pores with limited selectivity based primarily on size. Here, we identified mnoP in the Gram-negative bacterium Bradyrhizobium japonicum as a gene coregulated with the inner membrane Mn(2+) transporter gene mntH. MnoP is an outer membrane protein expressed specifica...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to evaluate, by means of cephalometric appraisal, the vertical effects of non-extraction treatment of adult anterior open bite with clear aligners (Invisalign system, Align Technology, Santa Clara, CA, USA). METHODS Lateral cephalograms of 30 adult patients with anterior open bite treated using Invisalign (22 females, 8 males; mean age at start of treat...

We solve the part of the Donaldson-Thomas theory of Calabi-Yau threefolds which comes from super-rigid rational curves. As an application, we prove a version of the conjectural Gromov-Witten/DonaldsonThomas correspondence of [MNOP] for contributions from super-rigid rational curves. In particular, we prove the full GW/DT correspondence for the quintic threefold in degrees one and two.

the drawing of frequency-path (f-p) models of optical beams is an approach for nonlinearity analysis in nano-metrology systems and sensors based on the laser interferometers. in this paper, the frequency-path models of four nano-metrology laser interferometry systems are designed, analyzed and simulated, including conventional and modified two- and three-longitudinal-mode laser interferometers....

Structural brain networks can be constructed from the white matter fiber tractography of diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), and the structural characteristics of the brain can be analyzed from its networks. When brain networks are constructed by the parcellation method, their network structures change according to the parcellation scale selection and arbitrary thresholding. To overcome these issue...

RATIONALE Organizing pneumonia (OP) is a clinicopathological entity characterized by granulation tissue plugs in the lumen of small airways, alveolar ducts, and alveoli. OP can be cryptogenic (primary) (COP) or secondary to various lung injuries. PATIENT CONCERNS We report the case of a 38-year-old male smoker with COP presenting in the form of diffuse micronodules on computed tomography (CT)...

Due to mobility of the node, the packet loss occurs often while the nodes are moving out of range, or the node has not enough either path and link stability or neighbour node stability. In this paper we propose modified stability scheme to make a correct balance between stability of path, link, neighbour node and total mobile nodes to extend the network lifetime. The main of the proposed work i...

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission certifies several types of radioactive waste packages and verifies that the package designers have shown that there will be no significant chemical, galvanic, or other reactions among the package components and contents, in accordance with Title 10 of the Code of Federal Regulations (10 CFR) 71.43(d). For a transportation package containing substances that...