When conducting research in the area of bone health, accurate measurement of calcium intake is crucial. The rapid assessment method (RAM) is one technique that has frequently been used for its measurement of calcium intake. However, the RAM and other currently established questionnaires lack the assessment of dietary supplement use, which is common for athletes. Our objective was to evaluate th...

We investigate environmental effects on evolution of cluster galaxies under hierarchical structure formation scenario using combination of a dissipationless N-body simulation and a semi-analytic model of galaxy formation. The N-body simulation enables us to calculate orbits of galaxies in simulated clusters. Therefore we can include stripping of cold gas from the galactic disks by ram pressure ...

One key component of recent pricing-based congestion control schemes is an algorithm for probabilistically setting the Explicit Congestion Notification bit at routers so that a receiver can estimate the sum of link congestion prices along a path. We consider two such algorithms—a well-known algorithm called Random Exponential Marking (REM) and a novel algorithm called Random Additive Marking (R...

High-end manycore microprocessors exhibit large-sized caches (32MB – 128MB) that consume a significant amount of total energy. These caches are typically composed of 6T-SRAM cells, which lack efficiency in terms of area and leakage power [1][2]. The emerging memory technologies, like Spin-Transfer Torque RAM (STT-RAM), not only incur reduced leakage power but also provide high integration densi...

BACKGROUND Shake flasks are widely used during the development of bioprocesses for recombinant proteins. Cultures of recombinant Escherichia coli with orbital mixing (OM) have an oxygen limitation negatively affecting biomass growth and recombinant-protein production. With the aim to improve mixing and aeration in shake flask cultures, we analyzed cultures subjected to OM and the novel resonant...

We present a metaheuristic algorithm for creating heuristic functions for CSP, especially SAT, with as low human interaction as possible. We use the concept of genetic programming to evolve local search heuristic functions encoded as a list of RAM model-like computer instructions. However, we’ve extended the RAM model language to reflect the features of genetic programming and the random mixing...