The performance of microprocessors has increased steadily over the past 20 years at a rate of about 50% per year. This is the cumulative result of architectural improvements as well as increases in circuit speed. Moreover, this improvement has been obtained in a transparent fashion, that is, without requiring programmers to rethink their algorithms and programs, thereby enabling the tremendous ...

BACKGROUND Isolated limb perfusion (ILP) is an effective limb salvage strategy in patients with advanced soft tissue sarcoma (STS) where surgery alone would result in significant functional morbidity or mandate an amputation. Most previous reports of patients undergoing ILP focus on limb salvage rates rather than local and distant relapse rates. Here, we report the oncological outcome of sarcom...

Application Level Framing (ALF) and Integrated Layer Processing (ILP) have been proposed as strategies for solving the end system bottleneck problem for modern, distributed applications. Distributed multimedia applications that employ software intensive coding and compression techniques appear to be likely performance beneeciaries of an ALF/ILP implementation approach. However, there is a widel...

BACKGROUND Appropriate patient information materials may support the consumer's decision to attend or not to attend colorectal cancer (CRC) screening tests (fecal occult blood test and screening colonoscopy). The aim of this study was to develop a list of criteria to assess whether written health information materials on CRC screening provide balanced, unbiased, quantified, understandable, and ...

ILP has been successfully applied to a variety of tasks. Nevertheless, ILP systems have huge time and storage requirements, owing to a large search space of possible clauses. Therefore, clever search strategies are needed. One promising family of search strategies is that of stochastic local search methods. These methods have been successfully applied to propositional tasks, such as satisfiabil...

Inductive Logic Programming has been very successful in application to multirelational predictive tasks. Sophisticated predictive ILP systems, such as Progol and foil, can achieve high predictive accuracy, while the learning results remain understandable. Although boosting [1] is an established method to promote predictive accuracy of weak algorithms, there have been relatively few efforts to a...

Today, many general-purpose register-file (GPRF) architectures implement instructionlevel-parallelism (ILP) techniques to improve performance. Less has been done in this area for the so-called ‘stack architecture’. Nonetheless, stack architectures have many advantages over GPRF architectures. Applying ILP techniques in the stack processor domain might ultimately achieve similar, or better, perf...

Lack of information prior to medical tourism visits is a significant issue in meeting the expectations of patients. A global portal with doctor rating systems plausibly can bridge this gap. Doctor rating comparisons can help to reduce the information asymmetry in medical tourism. This study proposes a set of standards for doctor rating criteria for a medical tourism portal. A model has been dev...

This paper presents the results and conclusions of the C-rating project. The purpose of this project has been to define standard methods and criteria for testing, rating and specifying PV concentrator components and systems (C-systems). The general agreement on the capability of PV concentrator systems to reach cost competitive levels for PV energy in the mid-term suggested the requirement for ...