Protocol Boosters are functional elements, inserted and deleted from network protocol stacks on an as-needed basis. The Protocol Booster design methodology attempts to improve end-to-end networking performance by adapting protocols to network dynamics. We describe a new dynamically reconngurable FPGA based architecture , called the Programmable Protocol Processing Pipeline (P4), which provides ...

Hepatitis A and B are serious vaccine-preventable diseases with a predominantly overlapping epidemiological distribution. Travelers, a term encompassing a range of individuals, are at risk of contracting these diseases if they are unvaccinated. Although the benefits of the primary vaccination course of hepatitis A and B vaccines are clear, the administration of hepatitis A and B boosters varies...

Many classification algorithms achieve poor generalization accuracy on “noisy” data sets. We introduce a new non-convex boosting algorithm BrownBoost-δ, a noiseresistant booster, that is able to significantly increase accuracy on a set of noisy classification problems. Our algorithm consistently outperforms the original BrownBoost algorithm, AdaBoost, and LogitBoost on simulated and real data. ...

Recently, it was proposed to use negatively charged electron beams for compensation of beam-beam effects due to protons in the Tevatron collider [1]. We show that a similar compensation is possible in space-charge dominated low energy proton beams. The idea has a potential of several-fold increase of the FNAL Booster beam brightness. Best results will be obtained using three electron lenses aro...

evidence occupies a paramount position in any logical endeavor and research article is consensually considered a predominant site of such an endeavor. one interesting area of rhetoric which addresses the source and reliability of evidence is quality metadiscourse. in this qualitative study, quality metadiscourse strategies (i.e., evidentials, hedges, boosters and disclaimers) are examined to in...