Agile computing is an innovative metaphor for distributed computing systems and prescribes a new approach to their design and implementation. Agile computing may be defined as opportunistically discovering, manipulating, and exploiting available computing and communication resources in order to improve capability, performance, efficiency, faulttolerance, and survivability. This paper describes ...

Viability of electric car-sharing operations depends on rebalancing algorithms. Earlier methods in the literature suggest a trend toward nonmyopic algorithms using queueing principles. We propose new policy cost function approximation. The is modeled as p-median relocation problem with minimum flow conservation and path-based charging station capacities static node-charge graph structure. NP co...

In recent years, car-sharing systems have been announced as a way to increase mobility and to decrease the number of single-occupant vehicles, congestion, and air pollution in many parts of the world. This study presents a linear programming model to optimize one-way car-sharing systems for electric cars considering the depreciation costs of chargers and vehicles as well as relocation cost of v...

In 2008, Atlanta was the first city in the United States to completely eliminate its highrise public housing projects. Georgia State University professors Drs. Ruel, Oakley, and Reid undertook a three-year study to determine the health, behavior, and attitudes of residents both before and after relocation. This study sought to determine whether residents’ self-esteem and self-efficacy improved ...

OBJECTIVE We use a case-crossover analysis to explore the association between incident cardiovascular events and residential relocation to a new home address. METHODS We conducted an ambidirectional case-crossover analysis to explore the association between incident cardiovascular events and residential relocation to a new address using data from the Cardiovascular Health Study (CHS), a commu...

OBJECTIVES China's economic reforms have led to millions of citizens being relocated to support infrastructure development, reduce poverty, and address ecological, disaster-related and other concerns. This study expands on previous research on the implications of relocation in China by examining the impact of rural elders' relocation on the perceived availability of emotional, instrumental, and...

In this work, we propose a new mining-based file caching scheme for a hybrid storage disk system. In particular, we focus our efforts on reducing the latency of launching applications. The proposed scheme identifies correlated file accesses in a file access sequence via sequential pattern mining algorithm. Our scheme caches correlated files together to maximize the caching efficiency. The corre...

Regulatory mechanisms of chondrocyte differentiation in the growth plate are incompletely understood. Here, we find that histone deacetylase 4 (HDAC4) is located in the nucleus of chondrocytes in the proliferation zone and relocates to the cytoplasm of chondrocytes in the prehypertrophic zone in vivo. This suggests that the relocation of HDAC4 from the nucleus to the cytoplasm may play a role d...

BACKGROUND With greater numbers of older adults relocating to independent living communities (ILCs), there is an increasing need to determine whether factors such as self-efficacy can facilitate relocation adjustment. However, no relocation self-efficacy instrument is available. OBJECTIVES To develop and test an instrument measuring older adults' self-efficacy to relocate to an ILC. METHOD ...

Relocation decisions are complex. Each household has a bundle of attributes that make a location attractive to it, including the ability to access different activity locations easily, neighborhood quality, house amenities etc. Relocating households have an opportunity to find housing closer to their work. Using data collected in the Twin Cities area, we investigate how commute time and distance...