Message Passing Interface (MPI) Collective Communication Functions (MCCF) are usually implemented in programming libraries utilizing invariable algorithms. Not always do such algorithms yield the best performance with all kinds of applications and over all execution environments. In this paper, we present, simulate, analytically model, verify and analyze reconfigurable MCCF that present variabl...

With the large-scale employment of mobile internet, more mobile abnormal behaviors appear and are a great threat to the security of mobile users. Since many of those are unprecedented and unknown, it is difficult to classify these abnormal behaviors from normal behaviors by use of existing security application. In this article, a new method is proposed to classify and detect the abnormal behavi...

  Background :Effective leadership is of prime importance in any organization and it goes through changes based on accepted health promotion and behavior change theory. Although there are many leadership styles, transformational leadership, which emphasizes supportive leadership behaviors, seems to be an appropriate style in many settings particularly in the health care and educational sectors ...

Over thirty years ago anecdotal accounts of the undescribed Larger Pacific Striped Octopus suggested behaviors previously unknown for octopuses. Beak-to-beak mating, dens shared by mating pairs, inking during mating and extended spawning were mentioned in publications, and enticed generations of cephalopod biologists. In 2012-2014 we were able to obtain several live specimens of this species, w...

Callous-unemotional and borderline traits, antisocial behaviors, depressive symptoms and social anxiety were assessed in 972 high-school students. Cluster analysis yielded four groups: a low traits group, a second group that was above the mean in callous-unemotional traits and below the mean in borderline traits (moderate callous-unemotional traits cluster), a third group that was well above th...

In this study, we investigated the role of student characteristics and behaviors in a longitudinal study over a 50-year timespan (using a large U.S. representative sample of high school students). We addressed the question of whether behaviors in school have any long-lasting effects for one's later life. Specifically, we investigated the role of being a responsible student, interest in school, ...

Six cats were trained to eat while partially restrained and while thermal pulse stimuli (43-60 degrees C, 5 s duration) were delivered to the upper hindlimbs. Food and stimulus delivery were under programmed electronic control. The probability and latency of 3 natural, unlearned nocifensive behaviors were electronically registered: interruption of eating or of exploring for food, hindlimb movem...

This paper discusses why the extensive scientific results on predicting embedded systems temporal behavior never, or very seldom, reaches the industrial community. We also point out the main issues that the scientific community should focus on in order to facilitate industrial-strength timing predictions. The core problem is that the scientific community uses too simplistic or research oriented...

The article deals with the problem of proving observational equivalence for the class of computational processes called processes with message passing. These processes can execute actions of the following forms: sending or receiving of messages, checking logical conditions and updating values of internal variables of processes. Our main result is a theorem that reduces the problem of proving ob...

Time budgets for 17 behaviors were analyzed for cohort, day-period, season-period and interactions among the main effects for three colonies of yellowbellied marmots in the Upper East River Valley in western Colorado. These effects explained up to 79% of the variation in the behaviors. Marmots allocated more time (40-60%, 110-265 min daily) above-ground to sitting/lying than to any other activi...