The 12(th) rib syndrome is a disease that causes pain between the upper abdomen and the lower chest. It is assumed that the impinging on the nerves between the ribs causes pain in the lower chest, upper abdomen, and flank. A 74-year-old female patient visited a pain clinic complaining of pain in her back, and left chest wall at a 7 on the 0-10 Numeric Rating scale (NRS). She had a lateral fixat...

In this article we show the rough outline of a computer algorithm to generate lower bounds on the exponential function of (in principle) arbitrary precision. We implemented this to generate all necessary analytic terms for the Boltzmann machine partition function thus leading to lower bounds of any order. It turns out that the extra variational parameters can be optimized analytically. We show ...

Currently used parallel best rst branch-and-bound algorithms either suuer from contention at a centralized priority queue or can only approximate the best rst strategy. Bottleneck free algorithms for parallel priority queues are known but they cannot be implemented very eeciently on contemporary machines. We present quite simple randomized algorithms for parallel priority queues on distributed ...

We present a practical meldable priority queue implementation. All priority queue operations are very simple and their logarithmic time bound holds with high probability, which makes this data structure more suitable for real-time applications than those with only amortized performance guarantees. Our solution is also space-eecient, since it does not require storing any auxiliary information wi...

In this paper we report on a study of a two level preemptive priority queue with balking and reneging for lower priority level. The inter-arrival and the service times for both levels follow exponential distribution. We use a finite difference equation approach for solving the balance equations of the governing queuing model whose states are described by functions of one independent variable. H...

Inflammatory cytokines and lncRNAs are closely associated with tumorigenesis. Herein, we reveal inflammatory cytokines IL6 cooperates with long noncoding RNA CUDR to trigger the malignant transformation of human embryonic stem cells-derived hepatocyte-like stem cells. Mechanistically, IL6 cooperates with CUDR to cause MELLT3 to interact with SUV39h1 mRNA3'UTR and promote SUV39h1 expression. Mor...