Fast tracking after ambulatory surgery is a new paradigm which involves transferring patients from the operating room to the phase II recovery unit (i.e. bypassing the postanaesthesia care unit). The success of fast tracking depends upon appropriate modification of the anaesthetic technique, which would allow rapid emergence from anaesthesia, and the prevention of common postoperative complicat...

Bypassing emerged as a performance improvement method for shared Last-Level Caches (LLC) in multicore processors where large data portions are never reused, wasting system resources. This paper proposes an alternative method to predict data bypassing using Support Vector Machine (SVM). Based on access traces obtained from a simulator, SVM is trained to generate bypass models which are integrate...

in this paper, the large amount of sedimentation and the resultant shoreline advancements at the breakwaters of beris fishery port are studied. a series of numerical modeling of waves, sediment transport, and shoreline changes were conducted to predict the complicated equilibrium shoreline. the outputs show that the nearshore directions of wave components are not perpendicular to the coast whic...

Introduction Sometimes there is a need to answer important clinical questions quickly. Bureaucracy can erect an insurmountable barrier. The Research Governance Framework (RGF) for Health and Social Care was introduced in England in 2005 aiming to improve the efficiency and quality of research in the NHS, but has unwittingly introduced a new layer of bureaucracy which is preventing some importan...

In real sensor network deployments, spatial distributions of sensors are usually far from being uniform. Such networks often contain regions without enough sensor nodes, which we call holes. In this paper, we show that holes are important topological features that need to be studied. In routing, holes are communication voids that cause greedy forwarding to fail. Holes can also be defined to den...

This paper attempts to rehabilitate student models within intelligent tutoring systems. Recently, some researchers have questioned both the need for detailed student models and the practical possibility of building them. We regard it as axiomatic that any intelligent tutoring system needs a student model. This paper suggests some practical guidelines and changes in philosophical approach which ...

The Windows kernel that runs on the x64 platform has introduced a new feature, nicknamed PatchGuard, that is intended to prevent both malicious software and third-party vendors from modifying certain critical operating system structures. These structures include things like specific system images, the SSDT, the IDT, the GDT, and certain critical processor MSRs. This feature is intended to ensur...

2) Sparc2 was programmed in C , a high-level language, and MARS was programmed in assembly language, which made full use of the hardware features of the MARS processors like bit field extraction and manipulation, table access, and interprocessor communication support. The key contribution of this short note is the partitioning of the Goldberg-Tarjan network flow algorithm for pipelined executio...

The Layered architectural style presents a quandary for software architects. On the one hand, the style provides important advantages: separation of concerns, abstraction, ease of evolution, etc. Each layer can build on lower layers to add specific abstractions or services. On the other hand, the layers can become opaque, rigid barriers that inhibit the ability to adapt to new application needs...

Lectins like mannan-binding protein are part of the innate immune system. They circulate in association with serine proteases. Upon binding oligosaccharides, they activate the complement cascade analogous to the more familiar but evolutionarily more recent classical pathway, which is triggered by antibody binding to antigen. In this issue of the JCI, Selander et al. developed a sensitive and sp...