This report considers a sporadic real-time task system with n sporadic tasks on a uniprocessor platform, in which the lowest-priority task is a segmented self-suspension task and the other higher-priority tasks are ordinary sporadic realtime tasks. Under fixed-priority preemptive scheduling, Nelissen et al. in ECRTS 2015 provided a mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) formulation to test whe...

Natural excipients can serve as alternative to synthetic products because of local accessibility, biodegradability, eco-friendly nature and cost effectiveness as compared to synthetic products. Therefore, it is a current need to explore natural excipients that can be used as an effective alternative excipient for the formulation of pharmaceutical dosage forms. Adansonia digitata (Malvaceae) has...

Many-core and heterogeneous architectures now require programmers to compose multiple asynchronous programming model fully exploit hardware capabilities. As a shared-memory parallel model, OpenMP has the responsibility of orchestrating suspension progression operations occurring on compute node, such as MPI communications or CUDA/HIP streams. Yet, specifications only come with task detach(event...

3D NAND Flash is the preferred storage medium for dense mass applications, including Solid State Drives and multimedia cards. Improving latency of these systems a mandatory task to narrow gap between computing elements, such as CPUs GPUs, environment. To this extent, relatively time-consuming operations in media, data programming erasing, need be prioritized potentially suspendable by shorter o...

We perform numerical simulations of the sedimentation of rigid fibers suspended in a viscous incompressible fluid at nonzero Reynolds numbers. The fiber sedimentation system is modeled as a two-dimensional immersed boundary problem, which naturally accommodates the fluid-particle interactions and which allows the simulation of a large number of suspending fibers. We study the dynamics of sedime...

Increasingly real-time systems must handle the self-suspension of tasks, i.e. lowerbound wait times between subtasks, in a timely and predictable manner. A fast schedulability test that does not significantly overestimate the temporal resources needed to execute self-suspending task sets would be of benefit to these modern computing systems. In this paper, we present a polynomial-time test that...

The role of hydrophobicity in the attachment of enteropathogens to gastrointestinal mucosa is controversial. In vitro binding of Escherichia coli RDEC-1 to rabbit intestine is dependent on the expression of pili. We examined in vitro adherence of piliated RDEC-1 after altering either the hydrophobicity of the organisms, the hydrophobicity of the substrate for attachment, or the surface tension ...

Screening of different adjuvants, namely, suspending agents, phagostimulants, stickers, antimicrobial agents, and UV screens to develop aqueous biopesticidal suspensions of Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) variety kurstaki HD-1 fermented broths, specifically, nonhydrolyzed sludge, hydrolyzed sludge, starch industry wastewater, and soya (commercial medium), were investigated. The selected suspending ...