Previous work on marker-based EBMT [Gough & Way, 2003, Way & Gough, 2004] suffered from problems such as data-sparseness and disparity between the training and test data. We have developed a largescale robust EBMT system. In a comparison with the systems listed in [Somers, 2003], ours is the third largest EBMT system and certainly the largest English-French EBMT system. Previous work used the o...

A translation is a conversion from a source language into a target language preserving the meaning. A huge number of techniques and computational approaches have been experimented in order to translate natural languages automatically, yet no satisfactory solution has been found. This paper examines approaches to corpus-based machine translation (CBMT). In CBMT, a set of reference example transl...

Objective(s): To illuminate the functional effects of allicin on rats with cognitive deficits induced by tunicamycin (TM) and the molecular mechanism of this process. Materials and Methods: 200–250 g male SD rats were divided into three groups at random: control group (n=12), TM group (5 μl, 50 μM, i.c.v, n=12), and allicin treatment group (180 mg/kg/d with chow diet, n=12). After 16 weeks of a...

Transactional Memory (TM) is a promising abstraction as it hides all synchronization complexities from the programmers of concurrent applications. More particularly the TM paradigm operated a complexity shift from the application programming to the TM programming. Therefore, expert programmers have now started to look for the ideal TM that will bring, once-for-all, performance to all concurrent...

Transactional memory (TM) is an inherently optimistic abstraction: it allows concurrentprocesses to execute sequences of shared-data accesses (transactions) speculatively, with anoption of aborting them in the future. Early TM designs avoided using locks and relied onnon-blocking synchronization to ensure obstruction-freedom: a transaction that encounters nostep contention is no...

Transactional Memory (TM) simplifies parallel programming by transferring responsibility for concurrency management from the programmer to the system. Nevertheless, a number of challenges must be addressed for TM to be widely adopted. This dissertation presents work towards improving the practicality of TM across three dimensions. The first challenge addressed is that of integrating TM with pop...

Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) are popular hardware accelerators for data-parallel applications, enabling the execution of thousands of threads in a Single Instruction Multiple Thread (SIMT) fashion. However, the SIMT execution model is not efficient when code includes critical sections to protect the access to data shared by the running threads. In addition, GPUs offer two shared spaces to t...

Dysfunction in effector memory has been proposed to contribute to autoimmunity in type 1 diabetes (T1D). Using a unique cohort of age- and sex-matched T1D patients, nonaffected siblings, and unrelated control children, we undertook a detailed analysis of proliferation, activation, effector responses, and apoptosis in reactivated CD4(+)Tm cells during T-cell receptor stimulation. Across cohorts,...