The selection of resources that best fitting tasks in grid environments is an essential and critical factor to system performance. Current resource selection methods apply traditional mechanisms for the process of task allocation to resources, which cause performance problems. This paper proposes a resource selection algorithm in bidding based grid environment to minimize the total time for tas...

Traditional methods for assessing dietary exposure can be unreliable, with under reporting one of the main problems. In an attempt to overcome such problems there is increasing interest in identifying biomarkers of dietary intake to provide a more accurate measurement. Metabolomics is an analytical technique that aims to identify and quantify small metabolites. Recently, there has been an incre...

Significant numbers of older people attending hospital can be considered to be frail or living with frailty. This is a multi-component syndrome with many manifestations that leads to poorer outcomes in terms of mortality, morbidity and institutionalisation. Recognition and management of frailty can be challenging, and requires a true multidisciplinary approach, but appropriate assessment and su...

The biuret method for total protein has been compared on the Boehringer Mannheim Diagnostics (BMD) Hitachi 717 Analyzer with a candidate reference method in efforts to standardize the BMD method. The methods were compared using 115 paired serum specimens collected during morning rounds at the Roger Williams Hospital. Results from the test method were compared to the reference method using a sta...

— We prove that if a closed aspherical Riemannian 3-manifold M contains a 2-flat, then there exists a free abelian subgroup of rank two in π1(M). Under some restrictions on the topology of M we prove the existence of an immersed incompressible flat torus in M . This generalizes results which were previously known for manifolds of nonpositive curvature. RÉSUMÉ. — Nous prouvons que si une variété...

The present study attempted to determine the direction and etiology of the robust relationship between childhood externalizing (EXT) symptoms and parent-child conflict using a genetically informative longitudinal model and data from the ongoing Minnesota Twin Family Study. Participants consisted of 1,506 same-sex twins assessed at ages 11 and 14, and their parents. The relationship between EXT ...

In order to describe the semantic plurifunctionality of “ainda que”, the following aspects must be taken into consideration: (i) its distribution, in contrast with other concessive connectors, (ii) the contexts in which it occurs with an ambiguous interpretation, and (iii) the conditions enabling the setting of its semantic value. In this article, the array and distribution of the concessive co...

The experiment described here studied the rat motor activity pattern as a function of the photoperiod of circadian light-dark cycles in the limits of entrainment (22-and 23-h periods). In most cases, the overt rhythm showed 2 circadian components: 1 that followed the external LD cycle and a 2nd rhythm that was free run. The expression of these components was directly dependent on the photoperio...

The public archives containing protein information in the form of NMR chemical shift data at the BioMagResBank (BMRB) and of 3D structure coordinates at the Protein Data Bank are continuously expanding. The quality of the data contained in these archives, however, varies. The main issue for chemical shift values is that they are determined relative to a reference frequency. When this reference ...

The main challenge for theories of multitasking is to predict when and how tasks interfere. Here, we focus on interference related to the problem state, a directly accessible intermediate representation of the current state of a task. On the basis of Salvucci and Taatgen's (2008) threaded cognition theory, we predict interference if 2 or more tasks require a problem state but not when only one ...