With the ability of MATLAB to run in the cloud environment the authors analyse a retinal image efficiently. A quick and on-the-fly image processing is the cause for leveraging the ability of Cloud with the classic computing power of MATLAB. This cloud-based image processing has significantly saved on the cost of procuring resources and it has processed an image in a few seconds. This revolution...

Software development under the cloud computing model brings the advantage that new applications can be rapidly constructed by tailoring existing services. However, the use of Internet-based services as software components, leads to the development of applications in which some building blocks are hosted remotely, rather than locally in a controlled environment. This aspect of cloud-based develo...

Cloud Contracts capture architectural requirements in datacenters. They can be expressed as logical constraints over configurations. Contract violation is indicative of miss-configuration that may only be noticed when networks are attacked or correctly configured devices go off-line. In the context of Microsoft Azure’s data-center we develop contracts for (1) network access restrictions, (2) fo...

Methods Determining how academic clinical trials units can optimise data quality via central monitoring methods is an important factor in trial management. In the AZURE trial, it became apparent from site monitoring that the endpoint dates as defined in EORTC literature [1] were misinterpreted at site. Although a training programme was initiated, some sites were seen to report date of confirmat...

The results 1 from measurements made with the glass electrode and spectrophotometer show that brilliant cresyl blue penetrates as free base into the vacuoles of living cells of Nitella. The present paper describes similar experiments with azure B, methylene blue, and crystal violet. Since the methods for the condition of cells, extraction of the sap, penetration experiments, extraction of free ...

Removal of deoxyribonucleic acid from meristematic onion root cells grown in solutions of kinetin, followed by metachromatic staining in azure B bromide, indicated the presence of appreciable amounts of ribonucleic acid in nuclei exposed to the cell division factor.

The emergence of Cloud Computing technologies brings a new information infrastructure to users. Providing geoprocessing functions in Cloud Computing platforms can bring scalable, on-demand, and cost effective geoprocessing services to geospatial users. This paper provides a comparative analysis of geoprocessing in Cloud Computing platforms Microsoft Windows Azure and Google App Engine. The anal...

A linear block code with dimension k, length n, and minimum distance d is called a locally repairable code (LRC) with locality r if it can retrieve any coded symbol by at most r other coded symbols. LRCs have been recently proposed and used in practice in distributed storage systems (DSSs) such as Windows Azure storage and Facebook HDFS-RAID. Theoretical bounds on the maximum locality of LRCs (...

The increasing accessability and speed of Internet has enabled emergence of an online market where data providers publish their valuable information and from which customers subscribe and query data of all types. This virtual space in which the supply-demand forces exist and the exchange of information is incentivized by monetary gain is referred to as the data market (e.g. Windows Azure Market...