This paper describes experience prototyping the proposed IEEE standard \minimal realtime system pro-le", whose primary component is support for realtime threads. It provides some background, describes the implementation, and reports preliminary performance measurements.

Programmable rendering pipelines in modern graphics processing units have created a significant demand for realistically-looking three-dimensional scenes in real-time using more sophisticated illumination models that were even thinkable of a few years ago. However, it will be demonstrated that realistic illumination of complex materials is still too memory-intensive for naïve solutions, so more...

BACKGROUND Selection of drug-resistant strains may lead to failure of HBV antiviral therapy. There is little information whether there is detection difference in drug resistant mutations between different viral load assays of HBV. OBJECTIVES This study is aimed to investigate whether there is drug-resistant strains related detection difference between Abbott RealTime HBV (RealTime) and CobasA...

This paper introduces a dynamic cloud-based marketplace of near-realtime human-sensing data (MARSA) for different stakeholders to sell and buy near-realtime data. MARSA is designed for environments where Information Technology (IT) infrastructures are not well-developed but the need to gather and sell near-realtime data is great. To this end, we present techniques for selecting data types and m...

A stateless multicounter machine has m-counters operating on a one-way input delimited by left and right end markers. A move of the machine depends only on the symbol under the input head and the sign pattern of the counters. An input string is accepted if, when the input head is started on the left end marker with all counters zero, the machine eventually reaches the configuration where the in...