The steeply growing performance demands for highly power- and energy-constrained processing systems such as end-nodes of the Internet-of-Things (IoT) have led to parallel near-threshold computing (NTC), joining energy-efficiency benefits low-voltage operation with typical systems. Shared-L1-memory multiprocessor clusters are a promising architecture, delivering in order GOPS over 100 GOPS/W ene...

Abiotic stresses, such as heat, salt, waterlogging, and multiple-stress environments have significantly reduced wheat production in recent decades. There is a need to use effective strategies for overcoming crop losses due these abiotic stresses. Fertilizer-based approaches are readily available can be managed all farming communities. This research revealed the effects of sulfur-coated urea (SC...

Work on text summarization for DUC 2007 at the University of Ottawa continued along the lines established in recent years. We participated in the associated Pyramid evaluation effort now entrusted to the broader research community, expanding our corpus of SCU-marked documents by the 23 topics annotated this year to a total of 70. For the first time our summarization system made direct use of th...

We submitted runs from two different systems for the update summary task at TAC 2008. One system used Roget’s Thesaurus to determine semantic relatedness for the purpose of summary construction. The other system employs a variety of heuristics, including an innovative use of the topic headline in the assessment of semantic similarity among sentences. Our submission to the opinion task used only...

This paper describes the influence of Multiple Access (MA) interference on the performance of a non-cohcrcnt hybrid Direct Sequence Fast Frequency Hopping SSMA Communication system applying FSK-modulation. The MA-interference plays an important role in determining the total interference in a Spread Spectrum system, especially in a non-cellularenvironment, where Power Control is hardly possiblc....

The Institute for Beam Physics and Technology (IBPT) of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), and Babcock Noell GmbH (BNG) are collaborating since several years on an R&D program on superconducting undulators (SCUs). At the moment the collaboration is focusing on a SCU with 20 mm period length (SCU20) for ANKA, the test facility and synchrotron radiation source, run by the IBPT. The 1.5 ...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Level I evidence from randomized controlled trials demonstrates that the model of hospital care influences stroke outcomes; however, the economic evaluation of such is limited. An economic appraisal of 3 acute stroke care models was facilitated through the Stroke Care Outcomes: Providing Effective Services (SCOPES) study in Melbourne, Australia. The aim was to describe re...

OBJECTIVE To describe the demographic and clinical characteristics of patients hospitalized with pandemic A(H1N1) 2009 infection in Queensland, Australia between 25 May and 3 October 2009 and to examine the relationship between timing of antiviral treatment and severity of illness. METHOD Using data from the Queensland Health EpiLog information system, descriptive analysis and logistic regres...