As an important part of the science and technology infrastructure platform of China, the Ministry of Science and Technology launched the Scientific Data Sharing Program in 2002. Twenty-four government agencies now participate in the Program. After five years of hard work, great progress has been achieved in the policy and legal framework, data standards, pilot projects, and international cooper...

This paper reports on a survey of medical physicists who write and use in-house written software as part of their professional work. The goal of the survey was to assess the extent of in-house software usage and the desire or need for related software quality guidelines. The survey contained eight multiple-choice questions, a ranking question, and seven free text questions. The survey was sent ...

The Chebyshev or L∞ estimator minimizes the maximum absolute residual and is useful in situations where the error distribution has bounded support. In this paper, we derive the asymptotic distribution of this estimator in cases where the error distribution has bounded and unbounded support. We also consider the asymptotics of set-membership estimators such as the Chebyshev centre and maximum in...

Losing information when a storage device or data center fails can bring a company to its knees—or put it out of business altogether. Such catastrophic outcomes can readily be prevented with today’s storage technology, albeit with some difficulty: the design space of solutions is surprisingly large, the configuration choices are myriad, and the alternatives interact in complicated ways. Thus, so...

Every year, two million people become infected with the HIV virus in Africa, disproportionally affecting under 25 year olds and women. To address these challenges, governments and development partners have scaled up HIV behavior change campaigns (BCC) targeting youth. In many African countries, young women are twice as likely to be infected as young men, with transactional sex and gender-based ...

Controlled and efficient power consumption is a challenge faced daily by small, medium, and large data center (DC) administrators. Specialized and technical literature defines several guides, equipment, and mechanisms for this purpose. However, the combined application of these solutions is a complex task, which in several cases implies on high financial investment. In this context, we present ...

Article history: Received 24 December 2014 Received in revised form 27 June 2015 Accepted 1 July 2015 Available online 21 July 2015