The arrival rate of jobs at servers in a data-center can vary significantly over time. The servers in data-centers are typically multi-core processors, which allow jobs to be processed at different degrees of parallelism (DoPs), i.e., the number of threads spawned by a job. In this thesis, we show analytically as well as empirically that the DoP which minimizes the service time of jobs varies w...

This work evaluated the kinetics of events that occur in the placenta of Calomys callosus after Toxoplasma gondii infection. Animals on the first day of pregnancy (dop) and virgin nonpregnant females were perorally infected with 20 cysts of T. gondii strain ME49. After 100 days of infection, the virgin animals were mated and received an additional 20 cysts on the first dop. The placentas and th...

one of the major issues of increasing agricultural production, is adaptation of technology to specific climatic variables in cultivated areas. knowing the weather and climatic condition and periodic yearly and multi-year changes of meteorological phenomena and deviations from normal values ​​are of major requirements of modern agriculture. in this study, daily, monthly and annual weather data o...

We consider the problem of optimizing signal transmission through multichannel noisy devices. We investigate an array of bithreshold noisy devices which is connected in parallel and convergent on a summing center. Utilizing the concept of noise-induced linearization we derive an analytical approximation of the normalized power norm and clarify the relation between the optimum threshold and the ...

linear programming has been employed in many areas of constrained optimization including in agricultural planning for a long time. one of the most important disadvantages of such a method is that there is only one optimum solution for a given objective function and constraints set. another method named nearly optimal linear programming has been developed for solving the problem. this method can...

The toxicities of di-n-butyl phthalate (DBP) and di-n-octyl phthalate (DOP) were assessed by measuring the effect of exposure to these compounds on the fecundity of Daphnia magna and on the hatching and survival of the early life stages of the fathead minnow Pimephales promelas. For D. magna, exposure to 1.8 mg/L DBP or 1.0 mg/L DOP caused a significant reduction in reproduction. Doses of 0.56 ...

In this paper I present ongoing work on the data-oriented parsing (DOP) model. In previous work, DOP was tested on a cleaned-up set of analyzed part-of-speech strings from the Penn Treebank, achieving excellent test results. This left, however, two important questions unanswered: (1) how does DOP perform if tested on unedited data, and (2) how can DOP be used for parsing word strings that conta...

We evaluated a commercially available software package that uses B-mode images to semi-automatically measure quantitative metrics of ultrasound image quality, such as contrast response, depth of penetration (DOP), and spatial resolution (lateral, axial, and elevational). Since measurement of elevational resolution is not a part of the software package, we achieved it by acquiring phantom images...

In this article investigates the effect of content plasticizers on properties rubbers based rubber BNKS-18 AMN. The traditional, widely used dioctyl phthalate (DOP), as well more modern, environmentally friendly terephthalate (DOTP), were plasticizers. It has been established that introduction contributes to production with an improved complex operational properties, such elasticity, frost resi...