Analytical detection of cracking in connections of steel moment resisting frames using simple damage indices is important since these cracks are not visible unless the connections are uncovered. In this paper, applicability of three cumulative damage indices for detection of cracking in a cover plate welded moment connection is investigated. The damage indices considered in this study are based...

Though many diagnostic PCR methods have been described, few techniques have been developed to rapidly and efficiently screen transformed bacterial colonies for plasmid presence (1). Unfortunately, PCR screening of a large number of colonies is time consuming and requires substantial amounts of polymerase and primers. In this report, we describe a two-step large-scale bacterial colony screening ...

This paper introduces FLEX-MPI, a novel runtime approach for the dynamic load balancing of MPI-based SPMD applications running on heterogeneous platforms in the presence of dynamic external loads. To effectively balance the workload, FLEX-MPI monitors the actual performance of applications via hardware counters and the MPI profiling interface—with a negligible overhead and minimal code modifica...

Introduction The Hammercores by Altera high performance, soft decision Viterbi decoder cores are optimized for Altera FLEX 6000, FLEX 10K and APEX 20K devices. They are user parameterized to implement any number of standard decoders, or to quickly realize a custom application. The cores are capable of throughput (decoded bits out) of over 50 to 100 Mbps, even for relatively large constraint len...

In this paper we present an implementation of a constraint solving module, CLP(Flex), for dealing with unification in an equality theory for terms with flexible arity function symbols. Then we present an application of CLP(Flex) to XML-processing where XML documents are abstracted by terms with flexible arity symbols. This gives a highly declarative model for XML processing yielding a substanti...

Modern operating systems must support a wide variety of services for a diverse set of users. Designers of these systems face a tradeoo between functionality and performance. Systems like Mach provide a set of general abstractions and attempt to handle every situation, which can lead to poor performance for common cases. Other systems, such as Unix, provide a small set of abstractions that can b...

Modern operating systems must support a wide variety of services for a diverse set of users. Designers of these systems face a tradeoo between functionality and performance. Systems like Mach provide a set of general abstractions and attempt to handle every situation, which can lead to poor performance for common cases. Other systems, such as Unix, provide a small set of abstractions that can b...

We present an execution model for distributed transactions that can be employed for multidatabase systems. We use the Flex Transaction model that has been proposed as a highly general and exible tool for the speciication of distributed transactions and extend it by allowing nested and possibly recursive transaction speci-cations. We show how a given transaction speciication and its execution mo...

Motivated by a need to classify high-dimensional, heterogeneous data from the bioinformatics domain, we developed ML-Flex, a machine-learning toolbox that enables users to perform two-class and multi-class classification analyses in a systematic yet flexible manner. ML-Flex was written in Java but is capable of interfacing with third-party packages written in other programming languages. It can...