At the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association that took place in San Francisco in May 2013, after a year-long delay the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) was released. It is the result of the assiduous work of 400 clinicians who for about ten years endeavoured to articulate a new edition of the Manual. The last edition (DSM-IV-TR)...

In this paper we present the thread migration mechanism of DSM-PEPE, a multithreaded distributed shared memory system. DSM systems like DSM-PEPE provide a parallel environment to harness the available computing power of computer networks. DSM systems offer a virtual shared memory space on top of a distributed-memory multicomputer, featuring the scalability and low cost of a multicomputer, and t...

Software distributed shared memory (DSM) systems have many advantages over message passing systems. Since DSM provides a user a simple shared memory abstraction, the user does not have to be concerned with data movement between hosts. Many applications programmed for a multiprocessor system with shared memory can be executed on a software DSM system without significant modifications. This paper...

Effective species management and conservation require knowledge of distribution status. We used point-transect distance sampling surveys the endangered palila (Loxioides bailleui), a honeycreeper currently found only on Island Hawai'i, USA, to generate robust estimates total abundance simultaneously model distribution, abundance, spatial correlation as density surface (DSM). Point-transect is w...