Capitonnage Results in Low Postoperative Morbidity in the Surgical Treatment of Pulmonary Echinococcosis

Background. The main surgical techniques in the treatment of pulmonary echinococcosis are cystotomy alone, cystotomy and capitonnage, enucleation, and pericystectomy. Controversy persists regarding the selection of surgical technique. We reviewed our experience to identify the impact of capitonnage on outcomes

Characterizing and Exploiting Task-Load Variability and Correlation for Energy Management in Multi-Core Systems

Abstract We present a hybrid energy management technique that exploits the variability of and correlations among the computational loads of tasks in a real-time application with soft timing constraints. In our technique, task load variability and correlations are captured in stochastic models that incorporate certain salient features and essential characteristics of the application. We use the stochastic models in formulating and solving the energy management prob-lem for applications with soft timing constraints running on multiprocessor sys-tems with dynamic voltage scaling (DVS). We present a novel optimization for-mulation for minimizing average energy consumption while providing a prob-abilistic guarantee for satisfying timing constraints.We compare our stochastic models and energy management scheme with other models and schemes that do not capture/exploit either the variability of or the correlations among the com-putational loads of tasks. I