Heterogeneous (HE) multicore platforms, such as ARM big.LITTLE, are widely used to execute embedded applications under multiple and contradictory constraints, energy consumption real-time (RT) execution. To fulfill these constraints optimize system performance, application tasks should be efficiently mapped on platforms. Embedded usually tolerant approximated results but acceptable quality of s...

Background: HIV-exposed but uninfected (HEU) infants are at increased risk of impaired early linear growth and cognitive development. We examined associations between prenatal postnatal subsequent neurodevelopment in Ugandan HEU infants, hypothesizing that insults may explain alterations both somatic brain Methods: prospectively followed a cohort from birth to 18 months age, measured length/hei...

There were two similar series of burst waiting time experiments carried out on Godiva-II and Caliban respectively analyzed for neutron initiation study, unfortunately both the strength spontaneous fission source given in published papers are not consistent with data U-235 U-238. In this paper, discrepancies U-238 from different references reviewed clarified correct calculated respectively, then...

BACKGROUND HIV-exposed newborns may be at higher risk of sepsis because of immune system aberrations, impaired maternal antibody transfer and altered exposure to pathogenic bacteria. METHODS We performed a secondary analysis of a study (clinicaltrials.gov, number NCT00136370) conducted between April 2004 and October 2007 in South Africa. We used propensity score matching to evaluate the assoc...

Background Disease progression is rapid in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected infants. Whether intestinal damage and inflammation underlie mortality is unknown. Methods We measured plasma intestinal fatty acid binding protein (I-FABP), soluble CD14 (sCD14), interleukin 6 (IL-6), and C-reactive protein (CRP) at 6 weeks and 6 months of age in 272 HIV-infected infants who either died (c...

Perinatal HIV infection and congenital cytomegalovirus (CMV) infection may increase the risk for hearing loss. We examined 1,435 infants enrolled in the Surveillance Monitoring of ART Toxicities (SMARTT) study of the Pediatric HIV/AIDS Cohort Study (PHACS) network, a prospective study of the safety of in utero antiretroviral (ARV) exposures. We determined the proportion of perinatally HIV-expos...

Negotiations on a fissile material cut-off treaty (FMCT) were agreed to in 1998 at the Conference on Disarmament (CD) in Geneva after several years’ delay caused by debates over its scope and linkage to nuclear disarmament measures. However, the negotiations have yet to get underway, as they have not been reauthorized by the CD in subsequent years. Should the negotiations move forward, it is ex...