“It’s not what you play, but how you play it”. The term “robotic performance” has traditionally been used to describe a musical performance that lacks expression and evokes no emotion from listeners. Indeed, current instrumentplaying robots have achieved high technical proficiency, but “perfect” performances of a piece are not necessarily considered musical. In this paper, we propose a Programm...

Storage device performance prediction is a key element of self-managed storage systems and application planning tasks, such as data assignment and configuration. Based on bagging ensemble, we proposed an algorithm named selective bagging classification and regression tree (SBCART) to model storage device performance. It can improve the accuracy of a single CART model. In contrast with CART mode...

of this thesis: Low-dimensional electronic systems confined in semiconductor nanostructures possess unique properties and can be used not only to improve device performances but also

The efficient detection of charged biomolecules by biosensor with appropriate semiconducting nanomaterials and with optimum device geometry has caught tremendous research interest in the present decade. Here, the performance of various label-free electronic biosensors to detect bio-molecules is investigated by simulation technique. Silicon nanowire sensor, nanosphere sensor and double gate fiel...

Analysis of the experimental observations and comparison with magnetic measurements have pointed out relevant nonlinear terms in the DAΦNE wigglers and in the "C" corrector magnets. Different optics configurations aimed at reducing the impact of nonlinear terms have been studied and their effects on the collider performances are presented.

Today’s storage interfaces hide device-specific details, simplifying system development and device interoperability. However, they prevent database systems from exploiting devices’ unique performance characteristics. Abstract and device-independent annotations to existing storage interfaces can cleanly expose key device characteristics that improve performance and simplify manual tuning. By aut...

background: intrauterine device (iud) is an effective and long term method of contraception that can be used without continued effort by the user to prevent pregnancy perfectly. pain during iud insertion is one of the obstacles to properly using the device. thus, using different methods of analgesia and anesthesia to alleviate this pain has been studied by many researchers. this review article ...

We consider a scheme for offloading the delivery of contents to mobile devices in a vehicular networking scenario. Each content can be delivered to the requesting device either by a neighboring device or, at the expiration of a maximum delay, by the network infrastructure nodes. We compute the analytical expression of the probability that the content delivery is offloaded through a Deviceto-Dev...