A number of scientific applications are performance-limited by expressions that repeatedly call costly elementary functions. Lookup table (LUT) optimization accelerates the evaluation of such functions by reusing previously computed results. LUT methods can speed up applications that tolerate an approximation of function results, thereby achieving a high level of fuzzy reuse. One problem with L...

We examined the association between urine albumin excretion (UAE) and common and internal carotid artery intima-media thickness (IMT), end-diastolic left ventricular (LV) mass, and coronary artery calcification (CAC) scores using data from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA), a population-based study of 6814 adults aged 45 to 85 years without clinical cardiovascular disease (CVD). ...

A critical step in developing type-II superlattice (T2SL) based LWIR focal plane array (FPA) technology is to achieve high performance levels in FPA pixel-sized devices having 20-40 μm pitch. At this scale, device performance tends to be limited by surface effects along mesa sidewalls which are etched to provide pixel isolation. While control of surface leakage has been achieved for MWIR T2SLs,...

InAIAslInGaAs HFET’s fabricated by conventional mesa isolation have a potential parasitic gate-leakage path where the gate metallization overlaps the exposed channel edge at the mesa sidewall. We have unmistakably proven the existence of this path by fabricating special heterojunction diodes with different mesa-sidewall gate-metal overlap lengths. We find that sidewall leakage is a function of ...

OBJECTIVE To develop an empirically derived definition of mixed urinary incontinence (MUI) for use in incontinence outcomes research. METHODS Participants in a randomized trial comparing the fascial sling and. Burch colposuspension were assessed using standardized measures including the Medical, Epidemiologic and Social Aspects of Aging (MESA), UI questionnaire, the Urogenital Distress Invent...

The Aspergillus nidulans proteome possesses a single formin, SepA, which is required for actin ring formation at septation sites and also plays a role in polarized morphogenesis. Previous observations imply that complex regulatory mechanisms control the function of SepA and ensure its correct localization within hyphal tip cells. To characterize these mechanisms, we undertook a screen for mutat...

Between A.D. 1181 and 1200, in the early part of a climatically wet period, corn was imported to Chaco Canyon from a region outside the Chaco Halo (defined in this paper as the region between the base of the Chuska Mountains and Raton Wells). Strontium-isotope (87Sr/86Sr) analyses of 12 corn cobs dating to this period match Sr/Sr ratios from five potential source areas, including: the Zuni regi...

Abstract Key message This review for the first time gathers current state of knowledge on role plant and microbial methyl salicylate (MeSA) signaling processes in forest ecosystems. It aims to establish a basis use high-MeSA-emitting trees as silvicultural tool aiming enhance stability resilience managed temperate forests affected by climate change. Methyl is volatile compound involved systemic...