Modelling MEMS involves a variety of software tools that deal with the analysis of complex geometrical structures and the assessment of various interactions among different energy domains and components. Moreover, the MEMS market is growing very fast, but surprisingly, there is a paucity of modelling and simulation methodology for precise performance verification of MEMS products in the nonline...

Individuals with traumatic brain injury (TBI) manifest a wide range of visual dysfunctions. One of the most prevalent involves the oculomotor system, which includes version, vergence, and accommodation. However, until recently, there has been no comprehensive, computer-based program for remediation of these oculomotor deficits. We present such an oculomotor rehabilitation program that has been ...

In complex grammar-based systems, even small changes may have an unforeseeable impact on overall system performance. Regression testing of the system and its components becomes crucial for the grammar engineers developing the system. As part of this regression testing, the testsuites themselves must be designed to accurately assess coverage and progress and to help rapidly identify problems. We...

Spark has emerged as an easy to use, scalable, robust and fast system for analytics with a rapidly growing and vibrant community of users and contributors. It is multipurpose—with extensive and modular infrastructure for machine learning, graph processing, SQL, streaming, statistical processing, and more. Its rapid adoption therefore calls for a performance assessment suite that supports agile ...

Researches of and among Pacificans have been largely externally initiated, funded and controlled. It has become an imperialist tool to colonize, oppress and control the aspirations of Pacificans. This case study shows that research imperialism thrives in Tonga. Economic and social efficiency can be achieved through local initiatives by native researchers. Such an alternative approach must repla...

Network emulation is a technique that allows real-application performance assessment under controllable and reproducible conditions. We designed and implemented a hardware network emulator on an FPGA-based custom-design PCI platform. Implementation was facilitated by the use of the Handel-C programming language, that allows rapid development and fast translation into hardware and has specific c...

The paper presents a simulator designed specifically for evaluating job scheduling algorithms on large-scale HPC systems. The simulator was developed based on the Performance Prediction Toolkit (PPT), which is a parallel discrete-event simulator written in Python for rapid assessment and performance prediction of large-scale scientific applications on supercomputers. The proposed job scheduler ...

The growing demand for rapid diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB) has led to the incorporation of nucleic acid amplification (NAA) tests in case definitions. The objective of this study was to evaluate the contribution of a real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay in providing a result predictive of a confirmed TB case. Respiratory and extra-pulmonary specimens (n = 308) were subjected to NAA...

background: the aim of this paper was the comparison of ergonomic risk assessment results (final score and action levels) for the entire body as determined using quick exposure check (qec) and rapid entire body assessment (reba).  materials and methods: this was a cross-sectional study in which all 82 workers engaged in various processes with different activities in an anodizing and aluminum pr...