Everyday the companies make strategic business decisions to improve their position in the market. They examine the business value chain to improve the product innovation, customer intimacy, and operational efficiency. Product development is one of the key weapons in the war for a competitive advantage. Policy in product development is in the form of five ‘rights’, viz. the right information, in...

CAE simulation and analysis are highly sophisticated applications which enable engineers to get insight into complex phenomena and to virtually investigate physical behavior. In order to produce the best results possible these simulation solutions require high-performance compute platforms. In this paper we investigate the optimum usage of high-performance clusters for maximum efficiency and pr...

90 • Tweet! Use the hashtag #stfm50th to share your anniversary year experiences and your feelings about reaching the big 5-0! Look for the 50th anniversary logo on printed and online materials. Learn more and join in the fun at http://www.stfm. org/50thAnniversary. Mary Theobald, MBA; Stacy Brungardt, CAE; Maureen Grissom, PhD; Joseph Scherger, MD, MPH; Roger A Sherwood, CAE; William Ventres, ...

Mutations in the gene encoding the gamma2 subunit of the gamma-aminobutyric acid type A receptor (GABRG2) have been reported to cause childhood absence epilepsy (CAE), febrile seizures (FS), and generalized epilepsy with FS plus (GEFS+). The authors analyzed GABRG2 in 47 unrelated patients with CAE, FS, and GEFS+ and identified a novel mutation that cosegregated with FS. Electrophysiologic stud...

Small ruminant lentiviruses (SRLV) are members of the Retrovirus family comprising the closely related Visna/Maedi Virus (VMV) and the Caprine Arthritis-Encephalitis Virus (CAEV), which infect sheep and goats. Both infect cells of the monocyte/macrophage lineage and cause lifelong infections. Infection by VMV and CAEV can lead to Visna/Maedi (VM) and Caprine Arthritis-Encephalitis (CAE) respect...

 Sorting is the process of arranging the data into a meaningful order so that we can analyze it more effectively. Sorting is a key requirement in many applications like digital signal processing, scientific computing, network processing etc. This paper presents an area efficient technique for designing high throughput and low latency sorting units. Two popular parallel sorting algorithms are u...