Complete Swiss glacier inventories are available for 1850 (reconstructed) and 1973 (from aerial photography). Connected to the GLIMS project a new Swiss glacier inventory for approximately the year 2000 (SGI 2000) is compiled mainly based on satellite imagery. The developed and applied remote sensing and GIS methods are described in part I of the contribution. In part II, the inventory design, ...

Scalability and reliability are inseparable in high-performance computing. Fault-isolation through hardware is a popular means of providing reliability. Unfortunately, such isolation also increases communication latencies: typically, one has to drop into and out of the kernel to communicate between failure domains. On the other hand, relaxing fault isolation domains allows e cient communication...

Matrix multiplication is widely used in a variety of applications and is often one of the core components of many scientific computations which includes graph theory, numerical methods, digital control and signal processing. Multiplication of large matrices require a lot of computation time as its complexity is O(n), where n is the dimension of the matrix. A serial algorithm to compute large ma...

Recursive algorithms are generally not straightforward to be processed in parallel, particularly when an octree is involved. Some researchers have tried to process an octree in parallel, but this solution is restricted to recursive subdivision methods that guarantee surface containment in an octant. In this paper we show a whole class of recursive subdivision algorithms which does not fall into...

Purpose Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada (VKH) disease is a systemic autoimmune disorder that affects organs with melanocytes. The sunset glow fundus (SGF) in VKH disease was evaluated with polarization-sensitive optical coherence tomography (PS-OCT). Methods The study involved 28 eyes from 14 patients with chronic VKH disease, 21 eyes from 21 age-matched controls, and 22 eyes from 22 high-myopic patient...

BACKGROUND Understanding gene function and genetic relationships is fundamental to our efforts to better understand biological systems. Previous studies systematically describing genetic interactions on a global scale have either focused on core biological processes in protozoans or surveyed catastrophic interactions in metazoans. Here, we describe a reliable high-throughput approach capable of...

BACKGROUND Low birth weight and slow growth during infancy are associated with increased rates of chronic diseases in adulthood. Associations with risk factors such as fasting glucose and lipids concentrations are weaker than expected based on associations with disease. This could be explained by differences in postprandial responses, which, however, have been little studied. Our aim was to exa...

Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) is a chronic, debilitating inflammatory skin disease. Crohn’s disease (CD) among the most reported comorbid disorders in HS patients. Concurrent and CD are frequently associated with perianal that requires immunosuppressive therapy surgery. We sought to identify unrecognized IBD using commercially available panel of serologic, genetic, markers high specificity sens...

In this work, the Isoscalar (IS) Giant Dipole Resonance (GDR) and Pygmy (PDR) of 92Mo 100Mo Isotopes were calculated in farmwork self-consistent quasi-particle random phase approximation (QRPA) based on results Hartree-Fock-Bardeen, Cooper Schrieffer (HF-BCS) using 10 Skyrme-type interactions: KDE0v1, eMSL08, SKX, SGOI, v080, SKP, SIV, SIII, SKIII, SGI. The strength distributions isoscalar dipo...