A trend of emerging large-scale multi-core chip design is to employ multithreaded architectures such as the IBM Cyclops-64 (C64) chip that integrates large number of hardware thread units, main memory banks and communication hardwares on a single chip. A cellular supercomputer is being developed based on a 3D connection of the C64 chips. This paper introduces our design, implementation, and eva...

The rapid revolution in microprocessor chip architecture due to the many-core technology is presenting unprecedented challenges to the application developers as well as system software designers: how to best exploit the computation potential provided by such many-core architectures? The scope of this dissertation is to study programming issues for many-core architectures, and the contributions ...

The mitochondrial malate dehydrogenase-1 (Mdh1) gene of soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.] spontaneously mutates to a null phenotype at a relatively high rate. To determine the molecular basis for the instability of the Mdh1 gene, the gene was cloned and sequenced. The null phenotype correlated with the deletion of specific genomic restriction fragments that encode the Mdh1 gene. The composition ...

BACKGROUND Relapse of disease is frequent in anti-neutrophil cytoplasm antibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitis (AAV). It is unclear whether persistent ANCA when starting maintenance therapy increases the risk of relapse. We examined the association between ANCA status and relapse in two randomised controlled trials. METHODS ANCA-positive patients in two trials, CYCLOPS and IMPROVE, were switche...

Based on newly collected materials here we report new faunistic data for this diverse island and describe five leptocerid species from the Batanta Island (Indonesia, West Papua, Raja Ampat Archipelago): Oecetis anyam Oláh, sp. nov., O. apam batanta Leptocerus nov. Setodes sarlos As well as to clear taxonomic status of it was necessary survey unsettled group hemerobioides with description Indone...

T he availability of phosphorus and nitrogen are major limitations to plant growth, and as such our agricultural processes apply these nutrients at high concentrations to crop plants through fertilizer. Although fertilizer application has greatly enhanced food production it comes at a significant price: the chemical fixation of nitrogen depends on high levels of fossil fuels, making fertilizers...

Gastrointestinal (GI) cancers account for 1.5 million deaths worldwide. Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection (ESD) is an advanced therapeutic endoscopy technique with superior clinical outcome due to the minimally invasive and en bloc removal of tumours. In the western world, ESD is seldom carried out, due to its complex and challenging nature. Various surgical systems are being developed to make t...