The TPC-E is the new benchmark recently approved by the TPC council. It is designed to exercise an On-Line Transaction Processing workload of a brokerage firm and be representative of current database server work. In this paper we present DBT-5, a fair usage open-source implementation of the TPC-E benchmark. In addition to reporting on the design and implementation details of the tool, experime...

The DBMS performance might change by allocating resources and by performing a specific kind of workload. Database administrators should be able to identify relative resources that can change DBMS performance in order to effectively manage database systems. This paper aims to identify the relative resources that can affect the DBMS performance depending on the different kinds of workload. The re...

Historically, the performance and purchase price of enterprise information systems have been the key arguments in purchasing decisions. With rising energy costs and increasing power use due to the evergrowing demand for compute capacity (servers, storage, networks etc.), electricity bills have become a significant expense for todays data centers. In the very near future, energy efficiency is ex...

This paper presents a few of the studies preformed to test the electronic equipment on the MicroBooNE detector at FermiLab. The aspects of the electronics that are being checked include the gain and linearity of the output data pulse, the cross talk between wires, and the effects of a change in the trigger time on the pulse. This analysis is done at every stage of the set up, thus the compariso...

The LCTPC collaboration is developing a time projection chamber (TPC) for a future linear collider. In the ILD concept for an ILC detector a TPC is foreseen as main tracking device. In order to get measurable signals on the anode, the primary electrons, produced by charged particles traversing the TPC, have to be multiplied. For this purpose gas electron multipliers (GEMs) can be used. Studies ...

Realization of a micro-TPC, a time projection chamber(TPC) which can detect three-dimensional fine tracks of charged particles, has been desired for years. We developed the μ-PIC, a twodimensional fine position detector, and a fast readout electronics in order to develop such an “electric cloud chamber”. In this paper, detector description and performance of our micro-TPC and one of its applica...

Green tea (GT), cranberry (CR), and tart cherry extracts were evaluated for their ability to inhibit yeast α-glucosidase, relevant to glucose uptake. The total phenolic content (TPC), antioxidant activity, and in vitro inhibitory activity of yeast α-glucosidase were examined for the extracts in the present study. GT had higher TPC and antioxidant activity, but CR demonstrated a greater α-glucos...

Antioxidant capacities and phytochemicals such as phenolics, flavonoids, triterpenoids, phytosterols of four parts of two sugarcane cultivars have been characterised. The total triterpenoid content (TTC), total phenolic content (TPC), total flavonoid content (TFC) and total sterol content (TSC) were different among parts and cultivars of sugarcane. The node of both cultivars contained the highe...

Transiently Powered Computers (TPCs) are novel devices that are battery-less and operate using only ambient energy. Therefore TPCs are prone to frequent power interruptions, and such the need for developing TPC-centric algorithms is a necessity. We advocate that only through a common experimental environment, accessible to everyone, a proper comparison of newly developed algorithms for TPCs can...