ALF (application level framing) and ILP (integrated layer processing) are protocol design and implementation concepts applied in high-performance communication architectures, e.g. to support multimedia applications. Writing ILP code is rather complex and, therefore, ILP code generation tools can reduce the time to develop efficient ILP protocol code significantly. This paper presents a tool, wh...

Insulin-loaded polymer (ILP) microparticles composed of poly(methacrylic acid) and poly(ethylene glycol), which have pH-dependent complexation and mucoadhesive properties have been thought to be potential carriers for insulin via an oral route. Nevertheless, further optimization of the polymer delivery system is required to improve clinical application. Therefore, the effect of particle size of...

Insulin and insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1) share high sequence homology, but their folding behaviors are significantly different: insulin folds into one unique thermodynamically controlled structure, while IGF-1 folds into two thermodynamically controlled disulfide isomers. However, the origin of their different folding behaviors is still elusive. The amphioxus insulin-like peptide (ILP) ...

Image processing is widely used in many applications, including medical imaging, industrial manufacturing and security systems. In these applications, the size of the image is often very large, the processing time should be very small and the real-time constraints should be met. Therefore, during the last decades, there has been an increasing demand to exploit parallelism in applications. It is...

Synchronous programs have been widely used in the design of safety critical systems such as the flight control of Airbus A-380. To validate the implementations of synchronous programs, it is necessary to map the program’s logical time (measured in logical ticks) to physical time (the execution time on a given processor). The static computation of the worstcase execution time of logical ticks is...

Mixed Criticality systems require a difficult compromise to be drawn between efficient system utilisation and sufficient separation of critical components. In addition to these challenges, hardware platforms are becoming increasingly multicore in nature bringing up additional scheduling issues. Previous publications have met these challenges by suggesting a Cyclic Executive based approach for M...

Integer Linear Programming (ILP) can be seen as the archetypical problem for NP-complete optimization problems, and a wide range of problems in artificial intelligence are solved in practice via a translation to ILP. Despite its huge range of applications, only few tractable fragments of ILP are known, probably the most prominent of which is based on the notion of total unimodularity. Using ent...

OBJECTIVE This study compares the time-action profile of inhaled insulin (INH; Exubera) with that of subcutaneously injected insulin lispro (ILP) or regular human insulin (RHI) in healthy volunteers. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS In this open-label, randomized, three-way, crossover study, 17 healthy male volunteers were given each of the following treatments in random order: INH (6 mg), ILP (18...

We optimize the diagnostic data from a fullresponse fault dictionary of a given test set. Compaction is done without loss of diagnostic resolution of a test set. We give an integer linear program (ILP) formulation using fault diagnostic table. The complexity of the ILP is made manageable by two innovations. First, we define a generalized independence relation between pairs of faults to reduce t...