We predict the existence of a new ferromagnetic shape memory alloy Ga2MnNi using density functional theory. The martensitic start temperature (TM ) is found to be approximately proportional to the stabilization energy of the martensitic phase (δEtot) for different shape memory alloys. Experimental studies performed to verify the theoretical results show that Ga2MnNi is ferromagnetic at room tem...

Dan Grossman recently wrote a thought-provoking paper entitled “The Transactional Memory / Garbage Collection Analogy” [5], which argues that transactional memory (TM) [11, 8, 20] will bring benefits to the lives of shared-memory parallel programmers that are broadly similar to the benefits commonly attributed to garbage collectors (GCs). This paper examines the TM/GC analogy in detail, paralle...

Transactional memory (TM) provides a general-purpose mechanism with which to construct concurrent objects. Transactional memory can also be thought of as a concurrent object, but its semantics are less clear than those of the objects typically constructed on top of it. In particular, commit operations in a transactional memory may fail when transactions conflict. Under what circumstances, exact...

Accumulating evidence suggests that alloreactive memory T cells (Tm) may form a barrier to tolerance induction in large animals and humans due in part to a resistance to suppression by Treg. However, why Tm are resistant to regulation and how the Tm response to an allograft differs from that of naïve T cells, which are amenable to suppression by Treg, remains unknown. Here, we show that acceler...

Engineers have successfully worked for decades to improve single thread CPU performance, but we have now reached a peak in what a single thread can do. Average programmers are now facing the eventuality that their code must be parallel to take advantage of the performance potential of multi-core chips. Unfortunately, writing parallel programs is hard because synchronizing accesses to shared sta...

City Communication Network: Sherry Simon’s Cities in Translation: Intersections of Language and Memory The article reviews seminal book (Routledge, 2012) recently rendered into Polish. Canadian scholar combines urban studies with comparative literature, translation, translator memory to provide insight linguistic cultural interactions the “dual cities” Calcutta, Trieste, Barcelona Montreal. An ...

Transactional memory (TM) allows concurrent processes to organize sequences of operations on shared data items into atomic transactions. A transaction may commit, in which case it appears to have executed sequentially or it may abort, in which case no data item is updated. The TM programming paradigm emerged as an alternative to conventional fine-grained locking techniques, offering ease of pro...

In this paper we introduce a technique for creating searchable translation memories. Linear B’s searchable translation memories allow a translator to type in a phrase and retrieve a ranked list of possible translations for that phrase, which is ordered based on the likelihood of the translations. The searchable translation memories use translation models similar to those used in statistical mac...

Introduction Our laboratory has previously demonstrated that adoptive cell transfer (ACT) of melanoma-specific memory T cells (TM) results in a more potent local and systemic T cell response than ACT with melanoma-specific effector T cells (TE). However, we have also seen that TM are not more cytotoxic than TEin vitro. We hypothesized that a combination of TE+M ACT would have an additive effect...