Advancements in GPS-technology have spurred major research and development activities for managing and analyzing large amounts of position data of mobile objects. Data mining tasks such as the discovery of movement patterns, classification and outlier detection in the context of object trajectories, and the prediction of future movement patterns have become basic tools in extracting useful info...

Certain parts of computer programs are executed more often than others over the course of normal use. The most frequently visited portions of code are known as “hot spots.” It is usually in these regions where most optimization effort should be focussed. The problem of locating and identifying program hot spots is related to that of detecting program phase changes. Different phases in a program...

InfiniBand has become a very popular interconnect, due to its advanced features and open standard. Large scale InfiniBand clusters are becoming very popular, as reflected by the TOP 500 supercomputer rankings. However, even with popular topologies like constant bi-section bandwidth Fat Tree, hot-spots may occur with InfiniBand, due to inappropriate configuration of network paths, presence of ot...

duchene and becker muscular dystrophy (dmd and bmd) are x-linked conditions that result from a defect in the dystrophin gene located on xp21. dmd is the most frequent neuromuscular disease in humans (1/3500 male newborns). in approximately 65% of dmd and bmd patients, deletions in the dystrophin gene have been identified as the molecular determinant. population-based variations in frequency and...

Pharmaceuticals are an important and indispensible element of modern life. They are employed in human and veterinary medicine, agriculture and aquaculture. Until the 1990s however, relatively little consideration was given to the likely fate, occurrence or effects of pharmaceuticals in the environment (PIE) following normal use. This apparent lack of scientific interest in pharmaceuticals as co...

• This solution was developed for an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) System of the Department of Computer Architecture, Escola Politècnica Superior de Castelldefels, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. • The aim is to identify fire embers (that is, hot spots) in the images captured by an infrared video camera on the UAV in real time. The location and characteristics of the hot spots are then tr...

We have read with interest the recent study by Wang et al. [1], which has been published in Medical Oncology. In this study, the authors investigated the effects on methotrexate (MTX) plasma concentrations of polymorphism rs1051296 in a miRNA binding site in solute carrier family 19, member 1 (SLC19A1), analyzing a group of 131 Chinese children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). They conc...

We developed Smart Furniture, which extemporaneously converts the legacy non-smart space into a Smart Hot-spot which consists of computational services. Since the Smart Furniture is equipped with networked computers, sensors and various I/O devices, it can provide various services by alone or by coordinating with other devices. In this paper, the physical structure and middlewares for the Smart...

A phenomenon of fireball ejection from hot spots in solid materials (silicon, germanium, glass, ceramics, basalt, etc.) to the atmosphere is presented. The hot spot is created in the substrate material by the microwave-drill mechanism [Jerby, Science 298, 587 (2002)10.1126/science.1077062]. The vaporized drop evolved from the hot spot is blown up, and forms a stable fireball buoyant in the air....

Performance analysis of multiple-bus systems is usually carried out under the assumption of a uniform memory request model. Hot spots arising in multiprocessor systems give rise to non-uniform memory requests. It is known that a hot spot memory request pattern results in a signi®cant degradation in the performance of a bu€ered multistage interconnection network. The aim of this research is to s...