abstract        background and objective: herpes simplex encephalitis is a life-threatening consequence of the central nervous system (cns) infection with herpes simplex virus (hsv). although it is a rare disease, mortality rates reach 70% in the absence of therapy and only a minority of individuals can return to normal function. the aim of this study was to determine possible correlation betwe...

background and objectives: pseudomonas aeruginosa (pa) is one of the most important causes of nosocomial infections and has an intrinsic resistance to many antibiotics. among all the resistance-nodulation-division (rnd) pumps of p. aeruginosa, mexab-oprm is the first efflux pump found to target multiple classes of antibiotics. this study was aimed to evaluate the expression level of genes expre...

background and objectives: a new real- time pcr protocol for the detection of trichomonas vaginalis in pooled urine samples has been optimized and validated. materials and methods: the amplification protocol, targeting a 2kb repeated gene in the t. vaginalis genome, was optimized by varying pcr parameters. as a reference method, a real-time pcr protocol targeting the beta-tubulin gene (y. versl...

This paper proposes a mixed integer programming model to solve a non-identical parallel machine (NIPM) scheduling with sequence-dependent set-up times and human resiliency engineering. The presented mathematical model is formulated to consider human factors including Learning, Teamwork and Awareness. Moreover, processing time of jobs are assumed to be non-deterministic and dependent to their st...

Real-time communication (RTC) applications have become largely popular in the last decade with spread of broadband and mobile Internet access. Nowadays, these platforms are a fundamental means for connecting people supporting businesses that increasingly rely on forms remote work. In this context, it is paramount importance to operate at network level ensure adequate Quality Experience (QoE) us...

In this paper, we study the problem of reducing the energy consumption for a weakly hard real-time system. The weakly hard real-time system is modelled by the (m, k)-constraints, which require that at least m out of any k consecutive jobs of a task meet their deadlines. Since the system energy is consumed not only by the processor alone but also in a large part by other peripheral devices, we f...

We consider the problem of online dynamic power management that provides hard real-time guarantees for multi-processor systems. In this problem, a set of jobs, each associated with an arrival time, a deadline, and an execution time, arrives to the system in an online fashion. The objective is to compute a non-migrative preemptive schedule of the jobs and a sequence of power on/off operations of...

In this paper we propose an Intelligent Management System which is capable of managing the automobile functions using the rigorous real-time principles and a multicore processor in order to realize higher efficiency and safety for the vehicle. It depicts how various automobile functionalities can be fine grained and treated to fit in real time concepts. It also shows how the modern multicore pr...