Geoscience analysis is currently limited by cumbersome access and manipulation of large datasets from remote sources. Due to their data-heavy and compute-light nature, these analysis workloads represent a class of applications unsuited to a computational grid optimized for compute-intensive applications. We present the Script Workflow Analysis for MultiProcessing (SWAMP) system, which relocates...

1 in favour of the extremely controversial practice of decriminalising drugs of abuse is surprising and disconcerting. When last has he sat in front of drug addicts who have lost their families through being addicted to drugs, or lost a job through a workplace accident related to cannabis abuse? 2 Or treated drug addicts from Switzerland, where they have failed to regulate substance abuse by pr...

In this thesis, I look at three problems with important applications in data processing. Incorporating side information, provided by the user or derived from data, is a main theme of each of these problems. This thesis makes a number of contributions. The first is a technique for combining different embedding objectives, which is then exploited to incorporate side information expressed in terms...

A comprehensive review on the approaches for synthesizing low side lobe concentric ring array (CRA) antennas is given. An Iterative Convex Optimization (ICO) based layout synthesis technique proposed peak side-lobe level (PSLL) minimization over a given circular field-of-view in steerable uniform-amplitude (UA-CRA) antennas. For number of rings and uniformly-distributed elements each ring, ICO ...

The rapid growth of the WWW has inspired numerous techniques to reduce web latency. While some of these techniques have not been implemented because they either increase network rru$ic or require coaperation between tiers. recent studies cast a shndow on techniques already in use (e.g. proxy cachingl as U result of the increasingly dynamic aspects of the WWW. Znparticular, the prol$erration of ...

Block-based image and video coding systems are used extensively in practice. In low bitrate applications, however, they suffer from annoying discontinuities, called blocking artifacts. Prior research shows that incorporating systems that reduce blocking artifacts into codecs is useful because visual quality is improved. Existing methods reduce blocking artifacts by applying various post-process...

BACKGROUND Temporal lobe epilepsy is associated with a significant risk of psychosis but there are only limited studies investigating the underlying neurobiology. AIMS To characterise neuroanatomical changes in temporal lobe epilepsy and comorbid psychosis. METHOD The study population comprised all individuals with temporal lobe epilepsy on the epilepsy database at the National Centre for E...