Until recently, the few available reports on the prevalence of cancer from the Arabian Gulf Council States (GCC) were suggestive that the incidence of uterine cancer in general was less common compared with those reported from western country. Cancer registries in the GCC States in the last five years indicate that uterine cancer has moved to the third on the list of leading causes of cancer in...

The addition of plug-in support in the latest release of GCC makes it an attractive platform for runtime instrumentation, as GCC plug-ins can directly add instrumentation by transforming the compiler’s intermediate representation. Such transformations, however, require expert knowledge of GCC internals. To address this situation, we present the InterAspect program-instrumentation framework, whi...

Superblock scheduling is a common technique to increase the level of instruction level parallelism (ILP) in generated code. Compared to a basic block, the Superblock gives an optimizer or scheduler a longer range over which instructions can be moved. The bookkeeping necessary to execute that move is less than would be necessary inside an arbitrary trace region. Additionally, the process of form...

Real-time media communication requires not only congestion control, but also minimization of queuing delays to provide interactivity. In this work we consider the case of real-time communication between web browsers (WebRTC) and we focus on the interplay of an end-to-end delay-based congestion control algorithm, i.e. the Google congestion control (GCC), with two delay-based AQM algorithms, name...

Despite the growing popularity of Library and Information Science (LIS) education in the Gulf Co-operation Council (GCC) states, there is evidence of significant shortcomings in resources, expertise and facilities which may seriously threaten the future sustainability of the field. In other parts of the world, trends in regional and international collaboration and co-operation among LIS special...

We demonstrate a real-time, open source implementation of the online GCC-NMF stereo speech enhancement algorithm. While the system runs on a variety of operating systems and hardware platforms, we highlight its potential for real-world mobile use by presenting it on two embedded systems: the Raspberry Pi 3 and the NVIDIA Jetson TX1. The effect of various algorithm parameters on subjective enhan...

A 60-year-old man presented with signs and symptoms of acute appendicitis and was found to have goblet cell carcinoid (GCC) of the appendix. The patient had no evidence of appendiceal disease on a computed tomography study one and a half year before. Due to the rarity of this tumor, previous case reports and series did not discuss the time course of the tumor's onset. This case report provides ...

Nontuberculous Mycobacteria (NTM) are causing growing health problems worldwide. This is indicated by an increasing amount of scientific reports showing not only well-identified species reemerging but also emergence of new species. The emergence and reemergence of NTM are particularly worrying in developing countries due to scarce published data and improper identification. Here we aimed to exa...

Computer scientists are always eager to have a powerful, robust and stable compiler infrastructure. However, until recently, researchers had to either use available and often unstable research compilers, create new ones from scratch, try to hack open-source non-research compilers or use source to source tools. It often requires duplication of a large amount of functionality available in current...