Prompted by pronounced structural differences between rat liver and rat hepatocellular carcinoma mitochondria, we suspected these mitochondrial populations to differ massively in their molecular composition. Aiming to reveal these mitochondrial differences, we came across the issue on how to normalize such comparisons and decided to focus on the absolute number of mitochondria. To this end, flu...

DVD-video is becoming more and more popular as the cost of hardware and media falls but the world of technology has moved on since the format was finalised. New and better encoding formats have been produced and there is a possibility that DVD’s will become obsolete just as it becomes mainstream. The MPEG4 derivative DivX;) claims to have the capability of storing 10 times as much video as DVD-...

The principle behind software process improvement (SPI) is that product quality is strongly influenced by the quality of the associated software process for development and maintenance. A number of SPI frameworks have evolved from this principle. However, these frameworks are comprehensive and differ in a variety of aspects, making them difficult to compare objectively and to select between for...

Comparing two databases that were upgraded from Sql Server 2008 R2 to Sql Schema & Data Comparison work well when Sql Client is 2012 SP1, but not. Diffing Your Microsoft SQL Server Database Structures It was lightning-fast, taking less than 8 seconds to compare two databases on different servers. SQL server database project creation using Visual Studio 2013, Author: The work is tougher when we ...

Wyatt, FB and Swaminathan, A. Implementing a mathematical model to compare oxygen uptake kinetics between cyclists and noncyclists during steady state. J Strength Cond Res 24(10): 2627–2631, 2010—The purpose was to compare a mathematical model of oxygen uptake and bioenergetic systems to an experimental protocol. Twelve (N = 12) noncyclists (NC), age (21.8 6 1.4 years), and 8 (N = 8) cyclists (...

We present a parallel sorting algorithm and its proof which sorts a sequence of n elements in time O(logz n) with n/2 processors on an EREW-PRAM computational model. A sorting network directly implements the algorithm using O(n .log n)PEs. The algorithm is based on the elementary Compare-Exchange operation and has the advantage that it does not require a powerful computational model, uses the l...

Earlier work in the areas of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and Grid computing resulted in the Open Grid Services Infrastructure (OGSI) specification, which defined Grid services as an extension of Web services. As a result, people often try to understand the relationship between Grid and Web services or even compare between them. This paper clarifies that, with the on-going developments i...

The consensus number of a synchronization primitive, such as compare-and-swap or fetch-and-add, is the maximum number of processes n among which binary consensus can be solved by using read-write registers and registers supporting the synchronization primitive. As per Herlihy’s seminal result, any synchronization primitive with consensus number n can be used to construct a wait-free and lineari...

Effective marine ecosystem-based management (EBM) requires understanding the key processes and relationships controlling the aspects of biodiversity, productivity, and resilience to perturbations. Unfortunately, the scales, complexity, and non-linear dynamics that characterize marine ecosystems often confound managing for these properties. Nevertheless, scientifically derived decisionsupport to...