Capillary electrokinetic separation techniques offer high efficiency and peak capacity, and can be very useful for the analysis of samples containing a large variety of (unknown) compounds. Such samples are frequently met in impurity profiling of drugs (detection of potential impurities in a pharmaceutical substance or product) and in general sample profiling (determination of differences or si...

Racial profiling – the use of race, ethnicity, or national origin by law enforcement officials to make judgments of criminal suspicion – is assessed in terms of its effect on targeted populations and law enforcement efficiency. A mathematical model, comparing multiple profiling and nonprofiling simulated scenarios, is employed. This analysis indicates that racial profiling exacerbates incarcera...

The high-resolution range (HRR) profile is an important target signature in many applications (e.g., automatic target recognition), and the radar HRR profiling performance is highly dependent on radar transmitted waveforms. In this paper, we consider the constant-modulus (CM) waveform optimization problem to improve HRR profiling performance for stationary targets. Firstly, several fundamental ...

Criminal profiling has received attention from the academic community and from the entertainment world since the FBI first published accounts of its profiling principles. It became popular through films such as Silence of the Lambs and the X-Files making headlines. However, beyond the victims’ pin pictures that help create the sensationalism in these resources, there have been few, if any, reli...

Eukaryotic regulatory small RNAs (sRNAs) play significant roles in many fundamental cellular processes. As such, they have emerged as useful biomarkers for diseases and cell differentiation states. sRNA-based biomarkers outperform traditional messenger RNA-based biomarkers by testing fewer targets with greater accuracy and providing earlier detection for disease states. Therefore, expression pr...

Profiling tools relate measurements to code context such as function names in order to guide code optimization. For a more detailed analysis, call path or phase-based profiling enhances the context by call chains or user defined phase names, respectively. In this paper, we propose argument controlled profiling as a new type of context extension using the value of function arguments as part of t...

BACKGROUND Genomic or proteomic profiling of cancer can be broadly defined as a systematic grouping of cancer based on its genetic or protein makeup. In the management of non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC), genomic and proteomic profiling applications have become useful in early disease detection, diagnosis, treatment, and prognostication. METHODS We reviewed the recent literature on the appl...

Profiling tools are computer-aided design (CAD) tools that help in determining the computationally intensive portions in software. Embedded systems consist of hardware and software components that execute concurrently and efficiently to execute a specific task or application. Profiling tools are used by embedded system designers to choose computationally intensive functions for hardware impleme...

-It has been known that loops constitute the most executed segments of programs and therefore are the best candidates for hardware implementation. We present a set of profiling tools that are specifically dedicated to loop profiling and do support combined function and loop profiling. One tool relies on an instruction set simulator and can therefore be augmented with architecture and micro-arch...

Currently available online profiling platforms offer various services for researchers and authors. Opening an individual account and filling it with scholarly contents increase visibility of research output and boost its impact. This article overviews some of the widely used and emerging profiling platforms, highlighting their tools for sharing scholarly items, crediting individuals, and facili...