Graphic Processing Units (GPUs), wtih their highly parallel structure, is a powerful tool to manipulate computer graphics and process large amounts of data in parallel. GPUs are becoming increasingly popular in today’s embedded system world. One typical example is the modern vehicle. Nowadays, modern vehicles are often required to run graphic applications such as instrumentation cluster, naviga...

The perl language is a powerful tool for creation of portable programs on a wide range of platforms. Support of the graphic user interface is not included in perl, and is provided by several stand-alone graphical toolkits. The most popular modules are Perl-Tk and Wx, based on multi-platform libraries, correspondingly Tcl-Tk and wxWindows, both written in C. The toolkit Prima was written to prov...

The authors examine the implications of research on Chinese for theories of reading and propose the lexical constituency model as a general framework for word reading across writing systems. Word identities are defined by 3 interlinked constituents (orthographic, phonological, and semantic). The implemented model simulates the time course of graphic, phonological, and semantic priming effects, ...

Background: Fire and explosion hazards are extremely important in processing units. This study was performed to identify the risk centers, the potential damage caused by fire and explosion, and the days of production cessation in the processing company. Materials and Methods: The present qualitative case study was conducted using Dow’s index in 2015. The fire and explosion hazard index...

Bronchoscopy is an important minimal-invasive procedure for both diagnosis and therapy of several lung disorders, including lung cancer. However, narrow airways and complex branching structure increases the difficulty of navigating to the target site inside the lungs. It is possible to improve navigation by extracting a map of the airways from CT images and tracking the tip of the bronchoscope....

The main drawback of the seismic modeling in 2D viscoelastic media on a single PC is that simulations with large gridsizes require a tremendous amount of floating point calculations. To improve computation speedup, a graphic processing units (GPUs) accelerated method was proposed using the staggered-grid finite difference (FD) method. The geophysical model is decomposed into subdomains for PML ...

The CARESTREAM Touch Prime Ultrasound System is based on an all new computing architecture equipped to provide precise advanced front-end beam forming, novel imaging modes, and automated image optimization capabilities. Advanced ultrasound beamforming and post-processing technologies greatly benefit from access to increased computing power. Medical ultrasound imaging continues to seamlessly lev...

The CIVA software platform developed by CEA-LIST offers various simulation and data processing modules dedicated to non-destructive testing (NDT). In particular, ultrasonic imaging and reconstruction tools are proposed in the purpose of localizing echoes and identifying and sizing the detected defects. Because of the complexity of data processed, computation time is now a limitation for the opt...