The development of distributed applications is alleviated by tools that offer a suitable abstraction of the communication between two disjoint program parts. This abstraction is close to the typical means of exchanging information in an imperative programming language: a procedure call or a method invocation. These techniques are called middleware because they bridge the abstractions of the ope...

Appropriately designing sampling policies is highly important for obtaining better control policies in reinforcement learning. In this paper, we first show that the least-squares policy iteration (LSPI) framework allows us to employ statistical active learning methods for linear regression. Then we propose a design method of good sampling policies for efficient exploration, which is particularl...

Our research group has proposed a new high performance computing architecture, which we call the λ computing environment. In the λ computing environment, every computing node has a shared memory connected with the optical wavelength path. In this paper, we establish the λ computing environment using the AWG–STAR system which is based on WDM technology, and we present the design and implementati...

SUMMARY The variant call format (VCF) is a generic format for storing DNA polymorphism data such as SNPs, insertions, deletions and structural variants, together with rich annotations. VCF is usually stored in a compressed manner and can be indexed for fast data retrieval of variants from a range of positions on the reference genome. The format was developed for the 1000 Genomes Project, and ha...

background: call center sector in india is a relatively new and fast growing industry driving employment and growth in modern india today. most international call centers in national capital region (ncr) of delhi operate at odd work hours corresponding to a time suitable for their international customers. the sleep quality of call handlers employed in these call centers is in jeopardy owing to ...

Abstract Binary rewriting consists in disassembling a program to modify its instructions. However, existing solutions suffer from shortcomings terms of soundness and performance. We present SaBRe , load-time system for selective binary rewriting. rewrites specific constructs—particularly calls functions—when the is loaded into memory, intercepts them using plugins through simple API. also discu...

background:  aeromonas spp. can cause diarrhea and various infections in humans. access to rapid techniques with a high sensitivity and specificity is strongly needed for the identification of aeromonas species. the aim of this study was to evaluate two different methods including api 20e bacterial identification tests and the molecular detection using pcr primers specific for 16s-rrna and 23s-...