Every compiler comes with a set of local optimization rules, such as x + 0 → x and x & x → x, that do not require any global analysis. These rules reflect the wisdom of the compiler developers about mathematical identities that hold for the operations of their intermediate representation. Unfortunately, these sets of hand-crafted rules guarantee neither correctness nor completeness. Optgen solv...

The Forensic Anthropology Center at Texas State (FACTS) began accepting whole-body donations for scientific research and educational purposes under the Anatomical Gift Act in 2008. Research conducted with donated whole bodies involves studies taphonomy human decomposition, including reconstructing postmortem interval. Following skeletal elements of all donors are collected, cleaned, permanently...

How stable is the performance of your flash-based Solid State Drives (SSDs)? This question is central for database designers and administrators, cloud service providers, and SSD constructors. The answer depends on write-amplification, i.e., garbage collection overhead. More specifically, the answer depends on how write-amplification evolves in time. How then can one model and manage write-ampli...

This paper addresses a rollon–rolloff waste collection vehicle routing problem which involves large containers that collect huge amounts of waste from construction sites and shopping malls. In this problem, vehicles could only move one container at a time between customers’ locations, a depot, a disposal center, and a recycling center site. Other than a disposal center, a recycling ...

A high poverty rate indicates low social welfare. Welfare problems can be overcome by developing the economy, and economic development achieved production activities. This study aims to determine role of Bangoan Collection Center for welfare community supporting factors inhibiting in Village. Types descriptive qualitative data sources used this study, primary secondary research. The technique c...

The technical challenges in the development of a quality-controlled registry of percutaneous coronary interventions (PCIs) are currently unknown. This article describes the authors' experience in the development of a regional, quality-controlled PCI registry. In 1996, 16 centers in Michigan were invited to participate in a multicenter PCI registry. Nine centers agreed to a pilot data collection...

Data-collection is an important application of sensor networks. This paper considers the scenario in which data generated from all sensors are to be forwarded to a single “data center” for processing. Although there have been many studies on this many-to-one communication scenario, it has generally been assumed that the data-collection capacity is upper-bounded by the link capacity L. We show t...

Transmission electron microscopy imaging protocols required by structural scientists vary widely and can be laborious without tailor-made applications. We present here the jeol automated microscopy expert system (james) api integrator, a programming library for computer control of transmission electron microscopy operations and equipment. james has been implemented on JEOL microscopes with Gata...

BACKGROUND CT-guided fine needle bioptic procedures (CTFNP) are characterised by low invasiveness, precise sample collection, a high diagnostic efficiency and support a rapid diagnostic process. A number of different fine needles and bioptic procedures are mainly used for tumour diagnostics today.The aim of the present study was to characterise the most important technical issues of fine needle...