BACKGROUND Commercial diagnostics are commonly used to identify gram-positive bacteria. Errors have been reported mostly at the species level. We have found certain phenotypic criteria used in API systems which significantly misidentify Leuconostoc, an emerging human pathogen, at the genus level. We also attempt to find practical, conventional phenotypic assays for accurate identification of th...

The performance of out-of-order processors increases with the instruction window size. In conventional processors, the effective instruction window cannot be larger than the issue buffer. Determining which instructions from the issue buffer can be launched to the execution units is a timecritical operation which complexity increases with the issue buffer size. We propose to relieve the issue st...

Sourdough is a composite ecosystem largely characterized by yeasts and lactic acid bacteria which are the main players in fermentation process. The specific strains involved influenced several factors including chemical enzyme composition of flour sourdough production technology. For many decades scientific community has explored microbiological, biochemical, technological nutritional potential...

EPIC processor is one of the best ways to exploit the instruction level parallelism where multiple instructions are issued explicitly by the compiler. VLIW processor is the evolution of EPIC processing paradigm. Very Long Instruction Word (VLIW) is multi-issue processors that try to extract parallelism statically by the compiler .It execute a long instruction that consist of multiple operation....

Application specific instruction set processors (ASIPs) can be optimized both for speed and power taking advantage of the flexibility of a synthesized semi-custom implementation. The current case study evaluates the effect of datapath and instruction set optimization using two examples from terrestrial digital video broadcasting (DVB-T) acquisition and tracking algorithms. Starting from a conve...

introduction: the conventional method of teaching endodontics has some drawbacks. due to the small size of the oral cavity, students cannot closely observe the clinical procedure. use of new teaching modalities such as the intraoral camera may obviate this problem. this study assessed the effect of video-assisted clinical instruction in dentistry (vacid) on dental student’s knowledge and perfor...

We develop theory concerning non-uniform complexity in a setting in which the notion of single-pass instruction sequence considered in program algebra is the central notion. We define counterparts of the complexity classes P/poly and NP/poly and formulate a counterpart of the complexity theoretic conjecture that NP 6⊆ P/poly. In addition, we define a notion of completeness for the counterpart o...