BACKGROUND What constitutes a "clinical trial" is inconsistently defined in the medical literature. With an initiative by Cancer Care Ontario (CCO) to report institutional clinical trials activity across the province of Ontario, Canada, we sought to investigate the variability in the interpretation of the term by local oncology professionals. METHODS A survey amongst the physicians and nurses...

P. Wang, S. Wehrli, E. Stambrook, C. Davatzikos, R. Verma, and T. Floyd Anesthesiology & Critical Care, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States, NMR Core Facility, The Children's Hospital of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States, Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States, Neurology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States

A graphics workstation should offer both a wide variety of 20 and 3D real­ time display functions as well as a programmable parallel-processing capacity for large processing tasks. A system concept is proposed that meets these require­ ments by offering a multi-processor configuration with general-purpose pro­ grammable processors, enhanced with specific logic that can perform for each node a l...

The Capsule Sensitizes Streptococcus pneumoniae to -Defensins Human Neutrophil Proteins 1 to 3 Katharina Beiter,† Florian Wartha,† Robert Hurwitz, Staffan Normark, Arturo Zychlinsky, and Birgitta Henriques-Normark* Department of Bacteriology, Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control, 171 82 Solna, Sweden; Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet, 171 77 ...

A p a r a l l e l processing method of r o t a t i n g and comparing three-dimensional ob jec ts is presented. The mul t i -p rocessor has an abs t rac t s t ruc tu re in which the I n d i v i d u a l processors are located at the ve r t i ces of a geodesic dome. The design has been tested on the same type of ob ject matching problems as Shepard (3) used in h i s mental r o t a t i o n experime...

Imaging the expression patterns of reporter constructs is a powerful tool to dissect the neuronal circuits of perception and behavior in the adult brain of Drosophila, one of the major models for studying brain functions. To date, several Drosophila brain templates and digital atlases have been built to automatically analyze and compare collections of expression pattern images. However, there h...

Our main aim of research is to find the limit of Amdahl's Law for multicore processors, to make number of cores giving more efficiency to overall architecture of the CMP(Chip Multi Processor a.k.a. Multicore Processor). As it is expected this limit will be in the architecture of Multicore Processor, or in the programming. We surveyed the architecture of the Multicore processors of various chip ...

On modern multicore processors, many applications run much slower than one would expect when looking at the vast congregated computational power. After a discussion of factors determining the performance on such CPUs, a framework concept that simplifies writing performance-optimized codes for stencil-based algorithms and a prototypical implementation are presented. Finally, the suitability of t...

A Cray XT5 system has recently been installed at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). This system differs from the existing XT4 system at ORNL in its compute node architecture, utilizing two quad-core Opteron Barcelona processors instead of a single quad-core Opteron Budapest processor. It also differs in its sheer scale, having approximately 150,000 processor cores, almost 5 times as many as

BACKGROUND Standing balance is imperative for mobility and avoiding falls. Use of an excessive number of standing balance measures has limited the synthesis of balance intervention data and hampered consistent clinical practice. OBJECTIVE To develop recommendations for a core outcome set (COS) of standing balance measures for research and practice among adults. METHODOLOGY A combination of ...