Ultraviolet irradiation (UV) exposure constitutes the most relevant environmental hazard to human skin. UV-mediated cutaneous inflammation and direct DNA damage lead promotion of skin carcinogenesis. D-dopachrome tautomerase (D-DT), a functional homolog macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF), has similarities MIF. However, its role, unlike role MIF in photocarcinogenesis, is unknown. We t...

Resolve onboard the x-ray satellite X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) is a cryogenic instrument with an microcalorimeter in Dewar. A lid partially transparent to x-rays (called gate valve or GV) installed at top of Dewar along optical axis. Because observations will be made through GV for first few months, transmission calibration crucial initial scientific outcomes. We present res...

ion Layers for Scalable Microfluidic Biocomputers William Thies, John Paul Urbanski, Todd Thorsen, and Saman Amarasinghe 1 Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory 2 Hatsopoulos Microfluids Laboratory Massachusetts Institute of Technology {thies, urbanski, thorsen, saman}@mit.edu Abstract. Microfluidic devices are emerging as an attractive technology for automatically orchestrati...

major architectural change is coming that will greatly influence the work of computer architects and system software developers, and will consume silicon area in unexpected places. When I describe this change briefly to computer architecture researchers, they often get an incorrect impression of what I'm saying. I am not saying that system tools for translating object code among architectures w...

The objective of the RAMP project is to accelerate multiprocessor systems research through the emulation of usable parallel processor prototypes. Criteria such as low cost, flexibility, observability, credible and repeatable results, and reasonable performance led to the choice of the FPGA platform, BEE2 (Berkeley Emulation Engine) as the primary host environment. A key goal of RAMP is the extr...

Power consumption is emerging as a key factor limiting computational performance in both mobile and tethered systems. Although there has been significant progress in low-power circuit design and low-power CAD and some work in low-power microarchitectures, there has been little work to date at the level of instruction set architecture (ISA) design for low power computing. Modern ISAs such as RIS...

BACKGROUND Cataract is one of the most common surgical procedures in the elderly. In most cases, the elderly have cardiac ischemia or chronic coronary diseases, which would lead to more ischemic events during general anesthesia. Therefore, surgeons and anesthetists prefer regional aesthesia to the general one owing to its more advantages and less complications. OBJECTIVES Therefore, this stud...

Data Level Parallelism(DLP) can be exploited in order to improve the performance of processors for certain workload types. There are two main application fields that rely on DLP, multimedia and scientific computing. Most of the existing multimedia vector extensions use sub-word parallelism and wide data paths for processing independent, mainly integer, values in parallel. On the other hand, cla...