1 External Memory Algorithms 2 1.1 Surveys and Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 1.2 Own Papers on the Subject . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 1.3 The Memory Hierarchy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 1.4 The Parallel Disk Model of Aggarwal/Vitter . . . . . . . . . . ...

To modify water absorption properties of bamboo fiber (BF) and high density polyethylene (HDPE) composites, heat treatment of BFs was performed prior to compounding them with HDPE to form the composites. The moisture sorption property of the composites was measured and their diffusion coefficients (Dm) were evaluated using a one-dimensional diffusion model. Moisture diffusion coefficient values...

For parallel breadth first search (BFS) algorithm on large-scale distributed memory systems, communication often costs significantly more than arithmetic and limits the scalability of the algorithm. In this paper we sufficiently reduce the communication cost in distributed BFS by compressing and sieving the messages. First, we leverage a bitmap compression algorithm to reduce the size of messag...

In this paper, we propose a novel search algorithm called band search that generalizes guided depth-first and best-first searches. The search allocates a band of at most W nodes in each level of the search tree for storing active nodes in that level, D priority lists, one for each level, for storing overflow nodes, and D counters, one for each level, for keeping track of and to limit the degree...

Tuning curves of afferent electroreceptive fibers in the anterior lateral line nerve of the weakly electric fish, Sternopygus macrurus, indicate that the tuberous electroreceptors of each individual are well-tuned to its own electric organ discharge (EOD) frequency. In order to study how receptor tuning may develop, new receptor organs were induced to form in regenerating cheek skin, and their ...

Virtually all clinical trials collect multiple endpoints that are usually correlated. Many methods have been proposed to control the family-wise type I error rate (FWER), but these methods often disregard the correlation among the endpoints, such as the commonly used Bonferroni correction, Holm procedure, Wiens' Bonferroni fixed-sequence (BFS) procedure and its extension, and the alpha-exhausti...

The embedded zerotree wavelet (EZW) algorithm, introduced by J.M. Shapiro and extented by A. Said and W.A. Pearlman, has proven to be a computationally simple and e$cient method for image compression. In the current study, we propose a novel algorithm to improve the performance of EZW coding. The proposed method, called enhanced zerotree coding (EZC), is based on two new techniques: adaptive mu...

Context. In many plasmas, long-lived metastable atomic levels are depopulated by collisions (quenched) before they decay radiatively. In low-density regions, however, the low collision rate may allow depopulation by electric dipole (E1) forbidden radiative transitions, so-called forbidden lines (mainly M1 and E2 transitions) . If the atomic transition data is known, these lines are indicators o...

The tuning properties of single auditory-nerve fibers (ANFs) are characterized with spectro-temporal receptive fields (STRFs), reverse correlation functions (revcors), and frequency tuning curves (FTCs). Measures of tuning and latency from the STRFs and revcors are largely comparable to the traditional measures of tuning from FTCs and measures of latency from peristimulus time histograms (PSTHs...