MapReduce has been used before to analyze N -body-like data. For example, in [4], a friends of friends algorithm was distributed across a MapReduce-like framework. Also, in [5], Pig was used to analyze large amounts of astronomical data. In both of these, the datasets were very large, in the hundreds of GBs and low TBs. These examples give hope that MapReduce can be used effectivly on a N -body...

We apply the Mellin-Barnes integral representation to several situations of interest in mathematical-physics. At the purely mathematical level, we derive useful asymptotic expansions of different zeta-functions and partition functions. These results are then employed in different topics of quantum field theory, which include the high-temperature expansion of the free energy of a scalar field in...

Supersaturation. J. R. Barnes, A. L. Sprague, D. P. Hinson, D. Tyler, and W.V. Boynton, College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, 104 COAS Admin. Bldg., Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, 97331 ([email protected]), Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85721 ([email protected]), Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University, 350 Serra Mal...

Subjective Variability Kathleen Mcmullen, MPH, CIC; Anthony Boyer, MD; Noah Schoenberg, MD; Hilary M. Babcock, MD, MPH; Scott Micek, PharmD; Marin Kollef, MD; Patient Safety and Quality, Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, MO; Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO; Division of Infectious Diseases, Washington University School of Medicine, S...

As experience grew, the survival of transplants between genetically similar pairs (sibling-sibling or Parent-child) was found to be better than when donor ap|d recipient were unrelated (Murray & Barnes 1968, ^ Barnes et al 1971). In the unrelated group there were a proportion of outstandingly successful transplants which might have been due to chance similarity in the antigenic make-up of donor...

Barnes and Roderick [Barnes, B., Roderick, M., 2004. An ecological framework linking scales across space and time based on self-thinning. Theor. Population Biol. 66, 113–118] developed a mathematical model of patch dynamics, based on a time-dependent self-thinning mechanism. In this paper, we consider the ramifications of their modelling approach, in terms Accepted 21 October 2005 Published on ...