The paper presents the new agent framework XJAF and its application on distributed library catalogues. The framework is based on the Java EE technology and uses the concept of the plug-ins for implementation of the basic framework components. One important plug-in of the agent framework has been introduced into this system: the inter-facilitator connection plug-in, which defines how multiple fa...

Easy-to-use thermal cycling for performing rapid and small-volume DNA amplification on a single chip has attracted great interest in the area of rapid field detection of biological agents. For this purpose, as a more practical alternative to conventional continuous flow thermal cycling, liquid plug-flow thermal cycling utilizes a thermal gradient generated in a serpentine rectangular flow micro...

INTRODUCTION: Contemporary cementing techniques in total hip arthroplasty include the use of a cement restrictor to occlude the intramedullary canal. In the 80 ́s occlusion of the distal intramedullary canal was done with a bone plug or by sealing with bone cement. Today, with the evolvement of biomaterials in Orthopaedic surgery numerous plug designs and materials (non-resorbable, resorbable) a...

As buildings consume 40% of US primary energy, energy efficiency through smart plug-load management can have a significant impact on US carbon emissions. In this paper we investigate learning algorithms to classify plug-loads based on minutely energy plug-load data and hourly weather data. One month of data is preprocessed into 31 daily features which are used to classify 5660 training samples ...

Executive Summary This paper discusses the advantages of RDMA and the alternatives available over Ethernet. Drawing on real life IT experience, it highlights the difficulties and costs associated with using RoCE (InfiniBand over Ethernet) in deployment and maintenance. RoCE comes out to be a Plugand-Debug offering that suffers from debuggability limitations, which further exacerbates the proble...