Modern persistent Key/Value stores are designed to meet the demand for high transactional throughput and high data-ingestion rates. Still, they rely on backwards-compatible storage stack and abstractions to ease space management, foster seamless proliferation and system integration. Their dependence on the traditional I/O stack has negative impact on performance, causes unacceptably high write-...

A mixture solidification model is employed to study the interaction between the melt flow and the growing mushy zone. The goal is to address the importance of considering the melt flow and flow pattern (laminar or turbulent) in the growing mushy zone. A simple 2D benchmark with parallel flow passing by/through a vertically growing mushy zone is considered. Parameter studies with different veloc...

Knowledge management capability (KMC) is the source for organizations to gain the sustainable competitive advantage. KMC evaluation is a required work with strategic significance. However it still has not been addressed in the existing literatures. So the objective of this study is to investigate a fuzzy multiple attributes decision-making method (FMADM) for evaluating KMC. In this paper, a fra...

technique and reformatted to display the coronaries (here LAD), (a) were compared to acquisitions performed with the new hybrid method (b). In this case, the vessel sharpness resulted visibly improved in the central and distal parts of the LAD. Figure 1: Schematic description of the hybrid motion correction technique The Next Step in Self-Navigated Coronary MRI: A Hybrid Approach for Affine Mot...

1 A First-Passage Kinetic Monte Carlo Method for Stochastic Reaction-Drift-Diffusion Systems [20, 19] 1 1.1 Biological Motivation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1.2 Mathematical Background . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 1.3 Motivation and Methodology for Incorporating Drift into the FPKMC method 2 1.4 DL-FPKMC Results . . . . . . . . ....

This paper presents a group evaluation structure model for evaluating the knowledge management capability (KMC) of an organization. An algorithm is also proposed to determine the degrees of KMC of an organization using a fuzzy linguistic approach. With the results of the degree of KMC, an organization can decide when and where to improve its KMC. A practical example is used to illustrate the ap...

Killed-virus (KV) vaccines in general as well as all commercial KV equine influenza vaccines require an adjuvant to elicit a protective and prolonged immune response. Various adjuvants are available, with some proving more effective than others. MetastiM, a proprietary oil emulsion adjuvant, is used in a commercial equine influenza vaccine containing the KV a/equi/Kentucky/97 (KY97) strain Key ...

This paper presents an approach for a multi-cue, viewbased recognition of gestures. We describe an exemplarbased technique that combines two different forms of exemplars shape exemplars and motion exemplars in a unified probabilistic framework. Each gesture is represented as a sequence of learned body poses as well as a sequence of learned motion parameters. The shape exemplars are comprised of...

This paper presents a novel approach for estimating the rate of turbulent kinetic energy dissipation from pulse-coherent acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP) measurements using the inertial dissipation method. Although the inertial dissipation technique is widely accepted and used in oceanographic and atmospheric research, its application to ADCP data is limited by the loss of directional i...

Understanding the motion of the heart through the cardiac cycle can give useful insight for a range of different pathologies. In particular, quantifying regional cardiac motion can help clinicians to better determine cardiac function by identifying regions of thickened, ischemic or infarcted tissue. In this work we propose a method for cardiac motion analysis to track the deformation of the lef...