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Real time scheduling on heterogeneous multiprocessor systems — A survey

Heterogeneous distributed architectures have introduced many challenges to scheduling on real-time systems. Owing to the NP-nature of the real-time version of the scheduling problem, researchers have worked on a number of heuristics. This paper presents a survey on real-time scheduling algorithms for heterogeneous multiprocessors. It provides a taxonomy of the different task models & a classification of algorithms. A number of scheduling algorithms have been discussed and a multi-way classification has been presented according to QoS parameters, scheduling heuristics and the static & dynamic nature of the algorithm. The paper briefly discusses various benchmarks & simulation tools that may be used to implement and compare algorithms. The survey concludes with some identification of future research directions.
SMALL CYTOPLASMIC BODIES IN THE LOOP OF HENLE AND DISTAL CONVOLUTED TUBULE THAT RESEMBLE PEROXISOMES

Renal peroxisomes are believed to be restricted to the proximal convoluted tubules. However, we have found particles in the loop of Henle and distal convoluted tubule that resemble the peroxisomes of the proximal tubules in some respects. Although smaller in size (generally too small to be resolved in the light microscope), they have a finely granular homogenous matrix and are delimited by a single unit membrane. Whether these are microbodies (peroxisomes) or dense bodies (lysosomes) cannot be determined solely on the basis of their fine structure. These bodies do not show acid phosphatase activity, indicating that they are not lysosomes. When incubated in a diaminobenzidine medium that demonstrates the peroxidatic activity of the peroxisomal enzyme catalase, the small bodies are reactive, suggesting that they are peroxisomes. This activity is blocked by 3-amino-1,2,4-triazole, an inhibitor of catalase.
Culture and Development : Hopes , Dreams and Realities in East Indonesia

Stroma Cole’s book Tourism, Culture and Development: Hopes, Dreams and realities in East Indonesia, poses questions that lie at the centre of community involvement in tourism, the drastic changes that a village undergo when it embraces tourism. It is a highly consequential contribution to scholarly research and education that skilfully interweaves concepts, theories, and empirical data related to tourism development in general and destination management in particular. The author astutely creates an essential tone for scholars with interests in the subfields of tourism studies such as authenticity, globalization, westernization, commodification, acculturation and homogenization studies.
The Allocation of Liability, Delegated Monitoring, and Modes of Financing

The paper argues that the industrial organization of the financial services market is determined by the allocation of liability to repay investors. Based on the allocation of liability, the paper examines all the possible modes of organizing finance and delegated monitoring in an economy with costly state verification. Besides the mode of financial intermediation (FI), a mode of direct finance, Conglomeration, also accommodates delegated monitoring and also obtains the benefit of diversification, which, therefore, do not necessarily make FI viable, as the existing literature claims. The paper furthermore finds that, as opposite to what that literature predicts, the monitoring cost favors FI, which empirically predicts that the prevalence of bank financing could increase with the costs of banks' services or with the return rates of banks' loans.
Market Orientation: A New Model

Purpose-The purpose of this paper is to careful and thorough overview the different approaches in the field of market orientation and introduces a new and comprehensive model in this area. Design/ methodology/ approach-The paper is based on a critical review of the existing literature and after assessment of the three approaches such as behavioral approach by Kohli and Jaworski (1990), cultural approach by Narver and Slater (1990) and extended market orientation approach by Matsuno and Mentzer (2000), to improve the market orientation conceptualization offers a new and comprehensive model. Findings-This comprehensive model explains the role of a set of important factors which influence businesses, because having the benefit of market orientation alone and without the approach to strategy characteristics within the organization including structural and non-structural, optimal competitive structure and affective factors on supply and demand structure such as market growth rate and market turbulence, buyer power and supplier power, technological turbulence, intensity of competition and entry or exit barrier the market cannot reach the desired result in business. Research implications-A deeper understanding of marketing concept and market orientation as the implementation of this fundamental concept requires doing away with One-dimensional and Shortsighted approaches. No firm would succeed by applying a mere cultural approach and paying attention to the internal environment and ignoring the external environment and the firm's decisive measures or by a mere behavioural approach while paying attention to some activities without preparing the necessary cultural pre-requisites or by concentrating on just the competitors and the customers instead of a continuous monitoring of all the external factors. Originality/ value- Entering the third millennium, it is facing not only with the increasing acceleration but also with changes. Now, acceleration transformation is so enormous that the ability to combine with it has changed to competitive privilege; companies for been successful cannot rely on their previous experiences and findings and requires new comprehensive approach about their markets. This paper's model can help improve the insight of marketer and managers in this area.
On Bayesian EWMA control charts under different loss functions

The motivation for this study is to analyze Bayesian exponentially weighted moving average (EWMA) control chart under 3 loss functions namely, SELF, LLF, and PLF. Informative priors (normal and mixture of normal) and non‐informative priors (Uniform and Jefferys) are considered for the analysis. The performance of Bayesian EWMA control chart using posterior and posterior predictive distribution scheme has been evaluated using average run length (ARL) and standard deviation run length (SDRL) as performance measures. Monte Carlo simulations are used to compute the performance measures for different values of smoothing constant. An illustrative example is also presented for practical considerations of Bayesian EWMA control chart.
SOFTWARE-AS-A-SERVICE AND CLOUD COMPUTING, A SOLUTION FOR SMALL AND MEDIUM-SIZED COMPANIES

Small and medium-sized companies are an important part of today's world economy, for their ability to offer new jobs but also for their capacity of innovation. At the same time, they are in a constant struggle with larger companies that take advantage of their negotiating power to impose their way of doing business to the SMEs. In an ICT enabled world, most large companies being intense ICT users, the lag of ICT adoption in SMEs may create a strong barrier between SMEs and large companies, promoting an over growing digital divide, the SMEs being in danger of being left out in some economic sectors. This paper aims at finding a possible solution in the Software-as-a-Service and Cloud Computing model, a rather new solution, yet more and more sought off by SMEs but also larger companies, especially considering the global financial and economic crisis, as well as evaluating the European Union's main views and policies regarding the SAAS - Cloud model.
Becoming a knowledge bank? The World Bank's emerging approach to knowledge, partnership and development in the time of globalisation

The World Bank President, James Wolfensohn, has committed his organisation to becoming a knowledge bank in the most visible example of development cooperation agency concern with the effects of new knowledge debates on their existing ways of working. Given its size and influence, the Bank’s progress towards being a knowledge bank and the implications this has for partnership and development are of prime importance to understanding the current trends in development cooperation.
On a Multivariate Eigenvalue Problem, Part I: Algebraic Theory and a Power Method

Multivariate eigenvalue problems for symmetric and positive definite matrices arise from multivariate statistics theory where coefficients are to be determined so that the resulting linear combinations of sets of random variables are maximally correlated. By using the method of Lagrange multipliers such an optimization problem can be reduced to the multivariate eigenvalue problem. For over 30 years an iterative method proposed by Horst [Psychometrika, 26 (1961), pp. 129–149J has been used for solving the multivariate eigenvalue problem. Yet the theory of convergence has never been complete. The number of solutions to the multivariate eigenvalue problem also remains unknown. This paper contains two new results. By using the degree theory, a closed form on the cardinality of solutions for the multivariate eigenvalue problem is first proved. A convergence property of Horst’s method by forming it as a generalization of the so-called power method is then proved. The discussion leads to new formulations of nume.
The timing and predictors of the early termination of breastfeeding.

OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence and correlates of the early discontinuation of breastfeeding by mothers eligible for the Women, Infants, and Children Program (WIC). METHODOLOGY A longitudinal observational study in which we enrolled English-speaking mothers who initiated breastfeeding after delivering healthy-term infants at Yale-New Haven Hospital and planned to bring their infants to the hospital's primary care center. Data on mother's baseline knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, and problems regarding breastfeeding were collected by semistructured interviews within 48 hours after delivery, at 1 and 2 weeks' postpartum, and by chart reviews at 2 and 4 months. A nonparticipating control group was used to test the Hawthorne effect. RESULTS Of the 64 participating mothers, the majority were minority (56% black, 34% of Puerto Rican origin), single (75%), and already enrolled in WIC (91%). The rates of discontinuation of breastfeeding were 27%, 37%, 70%, and 89% by 1 week, 2 weeks, 2 months, and 4 months, respectively. The mother's knowledge and problems of lactation were not associated with the early discontinuation of breastfeeding. After using logistic regression to control for potential confounders, mothers who lacked confidence at baseline that they would still be breastfeeding at 2 months (risk ratio: 2.38, 95% confidence interval: 1.82-6.18), and those who believed that the baby prefers formula (risk ratio: 1.68, 95% confidence interval: 1.04-2.71) were more likely to stop breastfeeding within the first 2 weeks postpartum. CONCLUSIONS The results of this study demonstrate that interventions aimed at prolonging the duration of breastfeeding in this population will need to shift focus from increasing knowledge and managing problems of lactation to enhancing the mother's confidence regarding breastfeeding, while also addressing beliefs regarding an infant's preferences.
Designs and codes in affine geometry

Classical designs and their (projective) q-analogs can both be viewed as designs in matroids, using the matroid of all subsets of a set and the matroid of linearly independent subsets of a vector space, respectively. Another natural matroid is given by the point sets in general position of an affine space, leading to the concept of an affine design. Accordingly, a t-(n, k, $\lambda$) affine design of order q is a collection B of (k-1)-dimensional spaces in the affine geometry A = AG(n-1, q) such that each (t-1)-dimensional space in A is contained in exactly $\lambda$ spaces of B. In the case $\lambda$ = 1, as usual, one also refers to an affine Steiner system S(t, k, n). In this work we examine the relationship between the affine and the projective q-analogs of designs. The existence of affine Steiner systems with various parameters is shown, including the affine q-analog S(2, 3, 7) of the Fano plane. Moreover, we consider various distances in matroids and geometries, and we discuss the application of codes in affine geometry for error-control in a random network coding scenario.
Expression cloning of a rat liver Na(+)-independent organic anion transporter.

Using expression cloning in Xenopus laevis oocytes, we have isolated a cDNA encoding a rat liver organic anion-transporting polypeptide (oatp). The cloned oatp mediated Na(+)-independent uptake of sulfobromophthalein (BSP) which was Cl(-)-dependent in the presence of bovine serum albumin (BSA) at low BSP concentrations (e.g., 2 microM). Addition of increasing amounts of BSA had no effects on the maximal velocity of initial BSP uptake, but it increased the Km value from 1.5 microM (no BSA) to 24 microM (BSA/BSP molar ratio, 3.7) and 35 microM (BSA/BSP ratio, 18.4). In addition to BSP, the cloned oatp also mediated Na(+)-independent uptake of conjugated (taurocholate) and unconjugated (cholate) bile acids. Sequence analysis of the cDNA revealed an open reading frame of 2010 nucleotides coding for a protein of 670 amino acids (calculated molecular mass, 74 kDa) with four possible N-linked glycosylation sites and 10 putative transmembrane domains. Translation experiments in vitro indicated that the transporter was indeed glycosylated and that its polypeptide backbone had an apparent molecular mass of 59 kDa. Northern blot analysis with the cloned probe revealed crossreactivity with several mRNA species from rat liver, kidney, brain, lung, skeletal muscle, and proximal colon as well as from liver tissues of mouse and rabbit, but not of skate (Raja erinacea) and human.
The Informational Advantage of Local Investors: Evidence from Fund Managers’ Trades Around Credit Events

We examine whether actively managed equity mutual funds trade on localised information events - syndicated loan covenant violations and changes in bank loan and entity ratings. Local investors achieve positive abnormal stock returns only around covenant violation periods rather than changes in credit ratings. Local investors appear to adjust their holdings at least three months prior to covenant violations. Mutual funds’ holdings of local stocks and stocks affected by covenant violations predict higher performance. Finally, to identify the possible information channel utilized by local investors, we find that local investors learn from insiders’ previous trades but not from their connection with syndicated loan network. Overall, our findings suggest that local investors have information advantages over distant counterparts due to their geography proximity to affected firms around credit events.
Nanophotonic Sensor Based on Photonic Crystal Structure Using Negative Refraction for Effective Light Coupling

In this paper, using the 2-D finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method, we study a novel biosensor based on collimation effects in photonic crystals (PCs) with negative refractive index. Coupling the collimated beam to a line of air holes (sensing region) filled with normal air, dry air, liquid, and gas is thoroughly investigated. It is shown that by an appropriate selection of design parameters, such as, the air cylinder radii and coupling distance, it is possible to achieve ultracompact sensing platforms. The collimation effect features channel allocation in nanosystems and high sensitivity for biomolecules sensing applications.
Equalization of digital/mixed-signal disturbances with an negative group delay circuit

This paper is aimed at the application of equalization technique using negative group delay (NGD) circuit for correcting mixed signals disturbed by unintentional electromagnetic effects. The basic principle illustrating the mechanism of the technique understudy and also the meaning of the intriguing NGD function is explained in details. For the feasibility illustration, an annihilation of RC-perturbations with RC-NGD-RC cascade configuration is performed. To confirm the proposed technique reliability, the feasibility of the distorted signals recovery is demonstrated with frequency- and time-domain simulations with NGD circuit sensitivity analysis deeming 10% passive elements relative tolerance. A reduction of rise-/fall-time and propagation delay of about 87 % is performed by using a trapezoidal signal represented by arbitrary 10-bits sequence “0100110100” with 250 Mbits/s-rate. The technique is useful for the RF/digital microelectronic systems signal integrity enhancement and delay reduction.
A preliminary overview of the Diaporthales based on large subunit nuclear ribosomal DNA sequences

The ascomycete order Diaporthales includes a number of plant pathogenic fungi such as Cryphonectria parasitica, the chestnut blight fungus, as well as many asexually reproducing fungi without known sexual states. Relationships among genera in the Diaporthales were evaluated as a basis for the recognition of families and to provide a taxonomic framework for the asexually reproducing diaporthalean fungi. Phylogenetic relationships were determined based on analyses of large subunit (LSU) nuclear ribosomal DNA (nrDNA) sequences. Within the Diaporthales 82 sequences representing 69 taxa were analyzed. Results suggest the presence of at least six major lineages within the Diaporthales recognized as the Gnomoniaceae sensu stricto, Melanconidaceae sensu stricto, Schizoparme complex including the anamorph genera Coniella and Pilidiella, Cryphonectria-Endothia complex, Valsaceae sensu stricto, and Diaporthaceae sensu stricto. In addition, six teleomorphic and anamorphic taxa fell within the Diaporthales but were not allied with any of the six lineages.
Distributed Bragg reflector based on porous anodic alumina fabricated by pulse anodization

In this paper, we demonstrate a distributed Bragg reflector (DBR) based on nanoporous anodic aluminum oxide (AAO) formed by pulse anodization. The AAO structure with alternating mild anodized (MA) and hard anodized (HA) layers having different porosities and thereby different refractive indices was fabricated in 0.3 M H2SO4 using potential pulses of 25 and 35 V. The effective refractive index of the HA layers can be tailored by changing the porosity of the HA layers. The porosity of the HA layers can be significantly increased by selective chemical etching of HA segments in 0.52 M H3PO4. Before etching, the porous AAO structure was supported by a polymer nanorod frame. On the selected surface area pores were infiltrated with polymers (polystyrene and PMMA). The designed AAO structure consists of alternating high and low refractive index layers and behaves as a distributed Bragg mirror reflecting light in two different ranges of wavelength. This behavior is extremely important in optical communication lines where two separate spectral bands of high reflectivity in the infrared region are desired.
Personal Perception,Innovation Diffusion and Consumer Participating in Online Group-buying Behaviour

The paper integrates the Technology Acceptance Model-2( TAM2),and Innovation Diffusion Theory( IDT) into one model to built the concept model of influence factors of consumer participating in online group-buying behavior by introducing the communication channels and the time variable,the perceived risk and perceived price variable in the process of diffusion. The empirical results show the factors affecting the consumer participating in online group-buying intention are personal perception factors and the innovation diffusion factors. Online group-buying communication channels( mass media and interpersonal relationships),time( the transaction orders) compatibility and perceived usefulness have significant positive effect on consumer's will to participate in the online group-buying; perceived risk and perceived price have significant negative impact on consumer's will to participate in the online group-buying; perceived usefulness has no significant influence on consumer' s will to participate in the online group-buying. Among them,effect of compatibility on consumer's will to participate in the online group-buying is the most significant,and impact of perceived usefulness and interpersonal communication is more significant.
Cardiac Autonomic Responses to Standing Up and Cognitive Task in Overtrained Athletes

This study compared the autonomic responses to an active orthostatic test and Stroop Color Word Test (Stroop) as well as cognitive performance in Stroop in twelve severely overtrained (OA, 6 men and 6 women) and twelve control athletes (CA, 6 men and 6 women). RR-intervals were recorded during the orthostatic test, the Stroop, and a relaxation period succeeding the Stroop. Low frequency power during standing in the orthostatic test was lower in OA than in CA (1322 +/- 955 ms2 vs. 2262 +/- 1029 ms2, p = 0.030, respectively). During Stroop, OA had higher relative total power (50 +/- 47 % vs. 19 +/- 14 % of the individual total power during supine rest after awakening, p = 0.028, respectively) and high frequency power (38.5 +/- 9.4 % vs. 13.5 +/- 2.3 % of the individual high frequency power during supine rest after awakening, p = 0.035, respectively) than CA. In the Stroop, OA made more mistakes than CA (9.7 +/- 6.5 % vs. 5.4 +/- 3.0 %, p = 0.045). The increase in absolute total power from the Stroop to relaxation correlated negatively with the amount of mistakes in the Stroop (r = - 0.588, p = 0.003). Thus, cardiac autonomic modulation during orthostatic task and responses to cognitive task and to relaxation, as well as the cognitive performance were attenuated in severe overtraining.
Handbook of Wireless Networks and Mobile Computing

If you want to get Handbook of Internet Computing pdf eBook copy write by good Handbook of Wireless Networks and Mobile Computing Google Books. Mobile Computing General. Handbook of Algorithms for Wireless Networking and Mobile Computing by Azzedine Boukerche (Editor). Call Number: TK 5103.2. CITS4419 Mobile and Wireless Computing software projects related to wireless networks, (2) write technical reports and documentation for complex computer.
Assessing the Suitability of Herd Bulls for the Sustainable Herds Project of the Conservation Centers for Species Survival

Managing exotic ungulates in sustainable herds increases the need to identify bulls likely to be successful, non-problematic breeders (A. Eyres, H. Haefele, K. Snodgrass, personal communication). When compared to the more traditional management strategy of male-female pairs (Sawyer et al. 2011), the sustainable herd management approach places more importance on individual males and associated risks. An unsuitable herd bull could result in ten to twenty missed calving opportunities instead of one to three (Farin et al. 1989). Aggressive animals could also cause more damage due to less restricted contact with more individuals (Patton et al. 2001; Penfold et al. 2002). In general, the potential combined effects of heritability, stress and risk sensitivity need to be considered in choosing individuals suitable for reintroduction (Archard & Brathwaite 2010). A systematic approach to scoring individual variation in bull suitability is needed to address these challenges associated with sustainable herd management. The purpose of this report is to present and explain an initial bull suitability assessment procedure developed at Fossil Rim Wildlife Center during summer 2012 (Appendix A).