We examine the ability of the IBM Blue Gene/Le (BG/L) architecture to provide ultrahigh-resolution climate simulation capability. Our investigations show that it is possible to scale climate models to more than 32,000 processors on a 20-rack BG/L system using a variety of commonly employed techniques. One novel contribution is our load-balancing strategy that is based on newly developed space-f...

Metacognitive awareness has been shown to be a critical skill for academic success. However, students often struggle to regulate this ability during learning tasks. The current study investigates how features designed to promote metacognitive awareness can be built into the game-based intelligent tutoring system (ITS) iSTART-2. College students (n=28) interacted with iSTART-2 for one hour, comp...

Attention-based Transformer models have been increasingly employed for automatic music generation. To condition the generation process of such a model with user-specified sequence, popular approach is to take that conditioning sequence as priming and ask decoder generate continuation. However, this prompt-based cannot guarantee would develop or even simply repeat itself in generated In p...

In observing the widely spread of patients caused by infectious diseases or the increase of the number of failures of equipments, it is crucial to predict the final number of infected patients or failures at earlier stages. To estimate the number of infected patients, the SIR model, the ordinary differential equation model, statistical truncated model are useful. The predicted value for the fin...

Most theories of visual processing assume that a target will "pop out" from an array of distractors ("parallel" visual search, e.g., color or orientation discrimination) if targets and distractors can be discriminated without attention. When the discrimination requires attention (e.g., rotated L vs. T or red-green vs. green-red bisected disks), "serial" examination is needed in visual search. A...

Dietary POP exposure have shown negative effects on sperm motility and sperm chromatin integrity, as well as an increased proportion of Y-chromosome bearing sperms. However, it has been suggested that in epidemiological studies investigating persistent organochlorine pollutant (POP)-toxicity, other pollutants occurring simultaneously may carry an increased risk of effects, which may obscure a c...

OBJECTIVE Persistent organohalogen pollutant (POP) exposure may have a negative impact on reproductive function. The objective of this study was to assess the impact of POP exposure on the male hypothalamo-pituitary-gonadal axis. PARTICIPANTS Participants included 184 Swedish fishermen and spouses of pregnant women from Greenland (n = 258), Warsaw, Poland (n = 113) , and Kharkiv, Ukraine (n =...

INTRODUCTION Systems that bond composite material to enamel are constantly modernized (application is simplified and the number of system components is reduced). The latest products are one-coat systems combining etchant, primer, and bond. Use of such systems is easier for the dentist and adds to patient's comfort. The aim of this work was to evaluate microscopically the composite material--bon...

The objective of this study was to measure the thickness of the hybrid layer (HLT), length of resin tags (RTL) and bond strength (BS) in the same teeth, using a self-etching adhesive system Adper Prompt L Pop to intact dentin and to analyze the correlation between HLTand RTL and their BS. Ten human molars were used for the restorative procedures and each restored tooth was sectioned in mesio-di...

The purpose of this study was to compare the effect of a self-etching primer and a non-rinse conditioner with the effect of a conventional adhesive system on the penetration depth in dentin of human teeth, using scanning electronic microscopy (SEM). Fifteen human third molar teeth were sectioned into 2 pieces. All pieces were flattened with grade 600 to 1200 silicon carbide paper and divided in...