There is a need to identify biomarkers that predict degree of chronic speech fluency/language impairment and potential for improvement after stroke. We previously showed that the Arcuate Fasciculus lesion load (AF-LL), a combined variable of lesion site and size, predicted speech fluency in patients with chronic aphasia. In the current study, we compared lesion loads of such a structural map (i...

This paper presents a new load sharing method for distributed systems. We know that the global computing power is most of the time much underutilized in this kind of systems. Our goal is to share the load among the diierent processors. Usually, load sharing algorithms are based on the fact that information and decision of distribution are on the processor. We desire to give processes the abilit...

The ability to predict load-bearing capacity during the consolidation phase in distraction osteogenesis by non-invasive means would represent a significant advance in the management of patients undergoing such treatment. Measurements of stiffness have been suggested as a promising tool for this purpose. Although the multidimensional characteristics of bone loading in compression, bending and to...

In the face of a large number of task requests which are submitted by users, the cloud data centers need not only to finish these massive tasks but also to satisfy the user's service demand. How to allocate virtual machine reasonably and schedule the tasks efficiently becomes a key problem to be solved in the cloud environment. This paper proposes a ACO-LB(Load balancing optimization algorithm ...

Accurate short-term electrical load forecasting plays a pivotal role in the national economy and people’s livelihood through providing effective future plans and ensuring a reliable supply of sustainable electricity. Although considerable work has been done to select suitable models and optimize the model parameters to forecast the short-term electrical load, few models are built based on the c...

The ability to remain focused on goal-relevant stimuli in the presence of potentially interfering distractors is crucial for any coherent cognitive function. However, simply instructing people to ignore goal-irrelevant stimuli is not sufficient for preventing their processing. Recent research reveals that distractor processing depends critically on the level and type of load involved in the pro...

The growth in computer and networking technologies over the past decades produced new type of collaborative computing environment called Grid Network. Grid is a parallel and distributed computing network system that possesses the ability to achieve a higher throughput computing by taking advantage of many computing resources available in the network. Therefore, to achieve a scalable and reliabl...

A low dropout voltage regulator with small output voltage variations and the ability of wide load current range support is proposed in this paper. In this LDO structure, a recycling folded cascode operational transconductance amplifier is used as an error amplifier, which has high transconductance and therefore high power efficiency. The designed LDO is simulated in 0.18 μm CMOS standard techno...

Information storage and retrieval from working memory is limited by the capacity of storage mechanisms and attentional processes. Nevertheless, it has been shown that processing of multiple features can proceed independently in working memory. In this study we investigated how serial order and directional information are processed when executing a movement to a remembered target direction. We c...