Balancing act

The Balancing Act : Combining

Computational approaches to language processing arose during a time of bitter debate in the linguistics community that pitted the generative theory of grammar Cho57] versus more quantitative and empirically motivated approaches (e.g., Sha48]). An unfortunate side eeect of this feud was a schism between statistical and symbolic approaches to natural language processing that resulted in limited i...

A PKGarious Balancing Act

The pathologically hypertrophied and failing heart is a battlefield in a war that would make even George Lucas proud. On the one side, you have hemodynamic, neurohormonal, morphological, and cellular/molecular dark forces urging the ventricle toward decompensation and ultimate demise. On the other, Jedi signaling cascades try valiantly to stave off the impending disaster. Alas, unlike the movie...

NBA (Network Balancing Act)

We present the NBA framework, which extends the architecture of the Click modular router to exploit modern hardware, adapts to different hardware configurations, and reaches close to their maximum performance without manual optimization. NBA takes advantages of existing performance-excavating solutions such as batch processing, NUMA-aware memory management, and receiveside scaling with multi-qu...

A balancing act for autophagin.

Autophagy is a tightly regulated catabolic process whereby cells degrade their constituents to dispose of unwanted cytoplasmic elements and recycle nutrients for cellular remodeling. Studies of autophagy in mammals have elicited substantial interest because it is linked to a range of physiologic and pathologic states. In this issue of the JCI, Mariño et al. uncover a role for autophagy in a bal...

Balancing act for elderly myeloma.