InfiniBand (IB) is a popular network technology for modern high-performance computing systems. MPI implementations traditionally support IB using a reliable, connection-oriented (RC) transport. However, per-process resource usage that grows linearly with the number of processes, makes this approach prohibitive for large-scale systems. IB provides an alternative in the form of a connectionless u...

When allocating scarce healthcare resources, the expected benefits of alternative allocations matter. But, there are different kinds of benefits. Some are direct benefits to the recipient of the resource such as the health improvements of receiving treatment. Others are indirect benefits to third parties such as the economic gains from having a healthier workforce. This article considers whethe...

Visualisation technologies offer a means for enhancing the scientific communication of existing conditions and likely landscape scenarios to various stakeholder groups including communities, natural resource managers, and policy-makers. This paper provides some background description of visualisation including definitions and discussion of visualisation as a connecting science. Next, the paper ...

With the advent of Cloud databases, query optimizers need to find paretooptimal solutions in terms of response time and monetary cost. Our novel approach minimizes both objectives by deploying alternative virtual resources and query plans making use of the virtual resource elasticity of the Cloud. We propose an exact multiobjective branch-and-bound and a robust multiobjective genetic algorithm ...

the objective of this study was to evaluate the performance of male broiler chickens in the period from 21 to 42 days of age fed diets with increasing levels of sunflower meal (sm) supplemented with an enzyme complex (ec). a total of 1920 animals of the cobb strain were distributed in a randomized block design in a 4 × 3 factorial arrangement (four sm levels and three enzymes utilization types)...

results the result of the present study confirmed wide use of herbal drugs use during pregnancy that need to report the safety concerns of these drugs during pregnancy. background investigations across the world confirm dramatic increment in the use of complementary and alternative medicine in pregnant women. the most important aspect is lack of awareness of pregnant women about potential effec...

As an integrated database, SpliceInfo identifies automatically the conserved sequences in selected exon/intron regions of a gene group. Several modes of mRNA alternative splicing, such as exon skipping, alternative 5'-splicing sites, alternative 3'-splicing sites and mutually exclusive exons are computationally derived and extracted. Finally, for each type of alternative splicing, the flanking ...

Resource competition is a fundamental interaction in natural communities. However, little remains known about competition in spatial environments where organisms are able to regulate resource distributions. Here, we analyse the competition of two consumers for two resources in a one-dimensional habitat in which the resources are supplied from opposite sides. We show that the success of an invad...

WordNet is currently the most widely used lexicon resource for general English language. We here argue in favor of a similar lexical resource for biomedicine, BioWordNet, to extend the virtues of WordNet to this sublanguage domain. We present a simple approach to semi-automatically build up such a resource. It crucially builds on the conversion of structured domain knowledge taken from the Open...

This paper summarizes and extends previous research that has shown evidence of a `curse of natural resourcesa } countries with great natural resource wealth tend nevertheless to grow more slowly than resource-poor countries. This result is not easily explained by other variables, or by alternative ways to measure resource abundance. This paper shows that there is little direct evidence that omi...