the fact that life styles and personal interests, aggregate within families suggests that shared environment in addition to shared bioligical factors could play a role in determining the phenotypic similarity of idividuals living in the same household. it is a major concern of cardiovascular epidemiologists to know how much of the familial aggregation of blood pressure is attributable to shared...

Electronic Commerce (E-Commerce) has become a popular topic for business and academic research since the early 1990's. Different researchers focus on different areas: applications, services, marketing, strategy, the Internet, extranets and technologies in ECommerce, to name but a few. Yet despite this focus on E-Commerce, there is still confusion about just what it is. The aim of this paper is ...

Distributed Shared Memory (DSM) is an architectural approach that allows processors to support a single shared address space that is implemented with physically distributed memory. The consistency model of a DSM system specifies the ordering constraints on concurrent memory accesses by multiple processors. Lots of Consistency Model are defined by a wide variety of source including architecture ...

To date OpenMP has been considered the work horse for data parallelism and more recently task level parallelism. The model has been one of shared memory working in parallel on arrays of a uniform nature, but many applications do not meet these often restrictive access patterns. With the development of accelerators on the one hand and moving beyond the node to the cluster on the other, OpenMP’s ...