Resource demands in telco data centers.

Telecommunication (telco) cloud services have emerged as crucial components in the modern digital landscape, offering extensive capabilities for data management, connectivity, and service provision. However, research on telco clouds lacks comprehensive data on the characteristics of production workloads, which is fundamental for designing effective resource management systems, such as workload schedulers and power management mechanisms. To this end, this paper addresses a substantial gap in telco cloud research by creating a comprehensive dataset that encapsulates crucial information regarding the pattern demands of applications within telco data centers.

Overview of methods and available tools used in complex brain disorders.

Complex brain disorders, including Alzheimer's dementia, sleep disorders, and epilepsy, are chronic conditions that have high prevalence individually and in combination, increasing mortality risk, and contributing to the socioeconomic burden of patients, their families and, their communities at large. Although some literature reviews have been conducted mentioning the available methods and tools used for supporting the diagnosis of complex brain disorders and processing different files, there are still limitations. Specifically, these research works have focused primarily on one single brain disorder, i.

A Cybersecurity Culture Survey Targeting Healthcare Critical Infrastructures.

Recent studies report that cybersecurity breaches noticed in hospitals are associated with low levels of personnel's cybersecurity awareness. This work aims to assess the cybersecurity culture in healthcare institutions from middle- to low-income EU countries. The evaluation process was designed and performed via anonymous online surveys targeting individually ICT (internet and communication technology) departments and healthcare professionals.

Spilled gallstone mimicking right middle lobe pulmonary nodule.

Laparoscopic cholecystectomy is the standard of care for the surgical management of symptomatic gallstone disease. Gallstone spillage at laparoscopic cholecystectomy is common, with a reported incidence of 0.2-20%.

Hospitals' Cybersecurity Culture during the COVID-19 Crisis.

The coronavirus pandemic led to an unprecedented crisis affecting all aspects of the concurrent reality. Its consequences vary from political and societal to technical and economic. These side effects provided fertile ground for a noticeable cyber-crime increase targeting critical infrastructures and, more specifically, the health sector; the domain suffering the most during the pandemic.

Influenza A (H1N1) 2009 antibodies in residents of New South Wales, Australia, after the first pandemic wave in the 2009 southern hemisphere winter.

Background: The first wave of pandemic influenza A(H1N1)2009 (pH1N1) reached New South Wales (NSW), Australia in May 2009, and led to high rates of influenza-related hospital admission of infants and young to middle-aged adults, but no increase in influenza-related or all-cause mortality.

Methodology/principal Findings: To assess the population rate of pH1N1 infection in NSW residents, pH1N1-specific haemagglutination inhibition (HI) antibody prevalence was measured in specimens collected opportunistically before (2007-2008; 474 specimens) and after (August-September 2009; 1247 specimens) the 2009 winter, and before the introduction of the pH1N1 monovalent vaccine. Age- and geographically-weighted population changes in seroprevalence were calculated.

Exploring differential trends in severe and fatal child pedestrian injury in New South Wales, Australia (1997-2006).

The study explores trends in severe and fatal child pedestrian injuries in New South Wales (NSW), over the 10-year period 1997-2006, in comparison to adults and for various subgroups. Data on pedestrian injury (reported as fatalities or hospitalisations) were obtained from the Traffic Accident Database System (TADS; Roads and Traffic Authority of New South Wales) which captures road traffic events reported to police, and from the NSW Admitted Patients Data Collection (APDC) which captures all hospital inpatient separations. Annual percentage changes in injury counts and rates were compared using Poisson regression.

Surgical ablation for atrial fibrillation in cardiac surgery: a meta-analysis and systematic review.

Objectives: : This meta-analysis sought to determine whether surgical ablation improves clinical outcomes and resource utilization compared with no ablation in adult patients with persistent and permanent atrial fibrillation (AF) undergoing cardiac surgery.

Methods: : A comprehensive search was undertaken to identify all randomized (RCT) and nonrandomized (non-RCT) controlled trials of surgical ablation versus no ablation in patients with AF undergoing cardiac surgery up to April 2009. The primary outcome was sinus rhythm.

Surgical Ablation for Atrial Fibrillation in Cardiac Surgery: A Consensus Statement of the International Society of Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery (ISMICS) 2009.

Objective: : This purpose of this consensus conference was to determine whether surgical atrial fibrillation (AF) ablation during cardiac surgery improves clinical and resource outcomes compared with cardiac surgery alone in adults undergoing cardiac surgery for valve or coronary artery bypass grafting.

Methods: : Before the consensus conference, the consensus panel reviewed the best available evidence, whereby systematic reviews, randomized trials, and nonrandomized trials were considered in descending order of validity and importance. Evidence-based statements were created, and consensus processes were used to determine the ensuing recommendations.

Prospective venox feasibility study.

Venox is a propriety Venous Oximetry system, capable of measuring peripheral venous oximetry. In this ongoing study, Venox is being compared against mixed central venous oximetry during human cardiac surgery, with Fibre optic reflectance spectrophotometry being used as the gold standard, placed in the pulmonary artery. A background review of the Pulse oximetry, current venous oximetry techniques and the potential advantage of the VENOX system are discussed.

The effect of preoperative atrial fibrillation on survival following mitral valve repair for degenerative mitral regurgitation.

Objective: There is conflicting evidence with regard to the impact of preoperative atrial fibrillation (AF) on the post mitral valve (MV) repair on the early and late outcome.

Methods: A total of 349 patients undergoing various MV repair procedures for degenerative mitral regurgitation (MR) between 1997 and 2003 were studied. Preoperatively, 152 (44%) of these patients were in AF and 197 (56%) patients were in sinus rhythm (SR).

Early failure of surgical angioplasty with tissue glue: a word of caution.

A 43-year-old woman with critical stenosis of the left main stem was managed with saphenous vein angioplasty using BioGlue. She developed severe myocardial ischemia postoperatively, probably due to external compression exerted on the patch by the adhesive material, and required emergency coronary artery bypass grafting.

Left atrial radiofrequency ablation during mitral valve surgery for continuous atrial fibrillation: a randomized controlled trial.

Context: Although left atrial radiofrequency ablation (RFA) is increasingly used for the treatment of chronic atrial fibrillation during mitral valve surgery, its efficacy to restore sinus rhythm and any resulting benefits have not been examined in the context of an adequately powered randomized trial.

Objective: To determine whether intraoperative RFA of the left atrium increases the long-term restoration of sinus rhythm and improves exercise capacity.

Design, Setting, And Patients: Randomized, double-blind trial performed in a single UK tertiary referral center with enrollment between December 2001 and November 2003.

Edge-to-edge repair with mitral annuloplasty for Barlow's disease.

Background: The purpose of this study was to define the early and midterm results obtained after the use of edge-to-edge repair with mitral annuloplasty in the setting of Barlow's disease.

Methods: Between 1998 and 2004, 41 patients having Barlow's disease had an edge-to-edge repair creating a double-lumen mitral valve orifice in our unit. In 38 patients (93%), an annuloplasty band was also inserted.

Effect of training in mitral valve repair surgery on the early and late outcome.

Background: Preservation of the native mitral valve provides important advantages over valve replacement. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of training for mitral valve repair on the outcome.

Methods: Between 1997 and 2004, 471 patients underwent mitral valve repair procedures in a single firm.

Mitral valve repair for active culture positive infective endocarditis.

Objective: To describe the clinical and echocardiographic outcome after mitral valve (MV) repair for active culture positive infective MV endocarditis.

Patients And Methods: Between 1996 and 2004, 36 patients (mean (SD) age 53 (18) years) with positive blood culture up to three weeks before surgery (or positive culture of material removed at operation) and intraoperative evidence of endocarditis underwent MV repair. Staphylococci and streptococci were the most common pathogens.

Mitral valve relpair and revascularization for ischemic mitral regurgitation: predictors of operative mortality and survival.

Background And Aims Of The Study: Surgery for ischemic mitral regurgitation (IMR) is required in 4-5% of patients subjected to coronary artery surgery, and may be challenging. The study aim was to determine outcome following mitral valve repair and myocardial revascularization for moderate-to-severe IMR.

Methods: A total of 102 patients (mean age 68+/-7 years) underwent mitral valve repair for IMR between 1998 and 2001 at the authors' unit.

Contribution of pain to inspiratory muscle dysfunction after upper abdominal surgery: A randomized controlled trial.

Upper abdominal surgery causes respiratory muscle dysfunction. Multiple factors have been implicated in the occurrence of such dysfunction; however, the role of pain remains unclear. To elucidate the role of pain, we studied 50 patients undergoing elective upper abdominal surgery in a randomized, controlled investigation.