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On Advantages of Grid Computing for Parallel Job Scheduling

This paper addresses the potential benefit of sharing jobs between independent sites in a grid computing environment. Also the aspect of parallel multi-site job execution on different sites is discussed. To this end, various scheduling algorithms have been simulated for several machine configurations with different workloads which have been derived from real traces. The results showed that a significant improvement in terms of a smaller average response time is achievable. The usage of multi-site applications can additionally improve the results as long as the increase of the execution time due to communication overhead is limited to about 25%.
Self-organizing multimedia delivery

In this thesis the non-sequential delivery of media in dynamic networks is investigated. Consider a scenario where people participate at a social event. With the increased popularity of smart phones and tablet computers people produce more and more multimedia content. They share their content and consume it on popular web platforms. The production and the consumption of such media are, however, different from the typical sequential movie pattern: we call this non-sequential media access. If the infrastructure is not available, visitors cannot share their content with other visitors during the event. The idea is to connect the devices directly, which is further robust even if people move during the event (dynamic networks). Non-sequential media access in combination with dynamic networks brings new challenges for the whole multimedia life cycle. A formalism called Video Notation helps to define the single parts of the life cycle with a simple and short notation. New measures for transport are needed as well. A caching technique is introduced that allows for evaluating the goodness of content for being cached based on its popularity in different user groups. However, this cache does not cope with the dynamic network requirement, because such a delivery has to be robust, adaptive and scalable. Therefore, we concentrate on self-organizing algorithms that provide these characteristics. In this thesis the implemented algorithm is inspired by the endocrine system of higher mammals. A client can express its demands by creating hormones that will be released to the network. The corresponding resources are attracted by this hormone and travel towards a higher hormone concentration. This leads to a placement of content near to the users. Furthermore, the robustness and service quality is increased by placing replicas of the traveling content along the transport path. Unused replicas are automatically removed from the nodes, to ensure storage balancing. Finally, we show with a use case that a middleware based on the hormone-based delivery including well-defined interfaces to the user and to the network can be used for content delivery. For such a general application recommendations on possible configurations are made.
Demographic Factors Associated with Hantavirus Infection in Bank Voles (Clethrionomys glareolus)

The bank vole (Clethrionomys glareolus) is the natural reservoir of Puumala virus (PUUV), a species in the genus Hantavirus. PUUV is the etiologic agent of nephropathia epidemica, a mild form of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome. Factors that influence hantavirus transmission within host populations are not well understood. We evaluated a number of factors influencing on the association of increased PUUV infection in bank voles captured in a region in northern Sweden endemic for the virus. Logistic regression showed four factors that together correctly predicted 80% of the model outcome: age, body mass index, population phase during sampling (increase, peak, or decline/low), and gender. This analysis highlights the importance of population demography in the successful circulation of hantavirus. The chance of infection was greatest during the peak of the population cycle, implying that the likelihood of exposure to hantavirus increases with increasing population density.
Anonymity: An Assessment and Perspective in Privacy Preserving Data Mining

Privacy Preserving Data mining techniques depends on privacy, which captures what information is sensitive in the original data and should therefore be protected from either direct or indirect disclosure. Secrecy and anonymity are useful ways of thinking about privacy. This privacy should be measureable and entity to be considered private should be valuable. In this paper, we discuss the various anonymization techniques that can be used for privatizing data. The goal of anonymization is to secure access to confidential information while at the same time releasing aggregate information to the public. The challenge in each of the techniques is to protect data so that they can be published without revealing confidential information that can be linked to specific individuals. Also protection is to be achieved with minimum loss of the accuracy sought by database users. Different approaches of anonymization have been discussed and a comparison of the same has been provided.
Optimal chemotaxis in animal cell intermittent migration

Animal cells can sense chemical gradients without moving, and are faced with the challenge of migrating towards a target despite noisy information on the target position. Here we discuss optimal search strategies for a chaser that moves by switching between two phases of motion ("run" and "tumble"), reorienting itself towards the target during tumble phases, and performing a persistent random walk during run phases. We show that the chaser average run time can be adjusted to minimize the target catching time or the spatial dispersion of the chasers. We obtain analytical results for the catching time and for the spatial dispersion in the limits of small and large ratios of run time to tumble time, and scaling laws for the optimal run times. Our findings have implications for optimal chemotactic strategies in animal cell migration.
Reconfigurability analysis method for spacecraft autonomous control

It has become an effective way to introduce reconfigurability design in design phase for improving the ability of spacecraft autonomous control since the precondition of fault processing is that the spacecraft is reconfigurable. In this paper, the reconfigurability analysis method is specially considered for the reconfigurability in design phase. Firstly, some basic definitions related to spacecraft reconfigurability are listed. On the basis of observability and controllability, the reconfigurability criterion is given out. Then, the function tree is built for the research of reconfigurability modeling. Next, the steps of reconfigurability modeling and analysis method based on minimal cut set and minimal path set are presented. After that, the indexes of fault reconfigurable degree and system reconfigurable rate for evaluating the reconfigurability are defined, and the method for analyzing the week links of a system is given out also. Finally, the above analysis method is applied to a spacecraft attitude measuring system. The method in this paper can achieve the quantitative evaluated result of reconfigurability and the weak links of a system, which are conducive for theoretical research for reconfigurability design in design phase of spacecraft.
Interpreting Productivity Growth in the New Economy: Some Agnostic Notes

The growth rate of total factor productivity seems to have increased recently, at least in the United States. Higher US productivity growth may justify higher stock market valuations than in the past and thus herald an emerging New Economy. However, the size of the estimated growth rate of total factor productivity depends on an assumption about the factor-augmenting properties of technological change. Simulations based on alternative properties of technological change produce a wide range of implied stock market valuations. As long as the rate of technological change cannot be observed directly, justifying the emergence of a New Economy with residual measures of total factor productivity growth will prove to be a futile exercise.
User Satisfaction on Smart Phone Interface Design, Information Quality Evaluation

Today, smart phone evolution become an important and highest competition channel through which many organisations launch and market their services to the users. Applications have delivering services by different way of attractiveness. The quality of information provided through mobile technologies is seen as one of the most critical dimensions towards organisational achievement and success. In fact, User interface designed for mobile device is the main concern in designing applications. Currently, there is few of research that particularly evaluates the quality of information on smart phone interface. In fact, the information quality has been deliver by smart phone, which is important for user convenience, has not been evaluated. In this paper, the researcher will be examined in three main areas: mobile interface design, the information quality of the applications, and whether this information has met user satisfaction.
Burns Anxiety Inventory

1. Anxiety, nervousness, worry or fear 2. Feeling that things around you are strange, unreal, or foggy 3. Feeling detached from all or part of your body 4. Sudden unexpected panic spells 5. Apprehension or a sense of impending doom 6. Feeling tense, stressed, “uptight”, or on edge CATEGORY II: ANXIOUS THOUGHTS 7. Difficulty concentrating 8. Racing thoughts or having your mind jump from one thing to the next 9. Frightening fantasies or daydreams 10. Feeling that you’re on the verge of losing control 11. Fears of cracking up or going crazy 12. Fears of fainting or passing out 13. Fears of physical illnesses or heart attacks or dying 14. Concerns about looking foolish or inadequate in front of others 15. Fears of being alone, isolated, or abandoned 16. Fears of criticism or disapproval 17. Fears that something terrible is about to happen CATEGORY III: PHYSICAL SYMPTOMS 18. Skipping or racing or pounding of the heart (sometimes called “palpitations”) 19. Pain, pressure or tightness in the chest 20. Tingling or numbness in the toes or fingers 21. Butterflies or discomfort in the stomach 22. Constipation or diarrhea Symptom List (continued)
Cross-modal collaborative interaction between visually-impaired and sighted users in the workplace

We present a detailed description of the design and integration of auditory and haptic displays in a collaborative diagram editing tool to allow simultaneous visual and non-visual interaction. The tool was deployed in various workplaces where visually-impaired and sighted coworkers access and edit diagrams as part of their daily jobs. We use our initial observations and analyses of the recorded interactions to outline preliminary design recommendations for supporting cross-modal collaboration in the workplace
U.S. Public Relations from an International Perspective: Curricular Issues and Objectives.

This paper establishes a rationale for international public relations courses in the curricula of university public relations education in the U.S. and outlines the content of such courses. Disagreements between practitioners and educators on a blueprint for public relations education are documented. Developments pointing to a crucial need for expanded U.S. public relations curricula are noted, such as increasing capabilities of satellite communication and the increasingly transnational nature of business. Public relations curricula should include international courses at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. International public relations courses should address: (1) the history and development of public relations in other cultures; (2) the practice and function of public relations abroad, emphasizing differences between U.S. and non-U.S. practices; (3) the internal and external dynamics of multinational corporations as well as the problems and difficulties of U.S. corporate public relations abroad; (4) comparative legal, political, and ethical dimensions of public relations practice at home and abroad; (5) the history, organization, practice, and professional operations of the media abroad; (6) public relations aspects of major international political, diplomatic, cultural, and socioeconomic developments; and (7) the various international organizations that provide resources for public relations practitioners. (Contains approximately 65 references.) (JDD) *********************************************************************** * Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made * from the original document. *********************************************************************** EASTERN MICTIGAN TINPIALVEgr Thirteenth Annual EMU Conference on Language and Communication for World Business and the Professions April 14 16, 1994 Ypsilanti, Michigan PAPERS ON INTERNATIONALIZING BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION U.S. Public Relations from an International Perspective: Curricular Issues and Objectives Cornelius B. Pratt Michigan State University Chris W. Ogbondah The University of Northern Iowa FERMISSON TO REPRODUCE THIS MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTED BV _Geo ffreytt, Vo_ght_ Eastern MI Univ TO THE EDUCATIONAL FIESOUNuf INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC' U 5 DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION ,". r I 1.or al.,. Resew( h . nc t DUCAT . ORAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (Esc, Eel lie dowrennt has been reproduced as fn, p,ed hom the somson Or orgaruzation U MIMI! ( Ilantr5 bare beer, m2d0 to onto ttla, ( POI Will( h1Oft quality P,o,o, ut ver, to opinions ,,iated in this 41. omps.1 drr nil ro+1esr.atily represent nIt al O4 111pcoollon ro policy BEST COPY AVAILABLE U.S. Public Relations from an International Perspective: Curricular Issues and Objectives Cornelius B. Pratt Michigan State University Chris W. Ogbondah The University of Northern Iowa Presented at the 13th Annual Conference on Languages and Communication for World Business and the Professions, Radisson on the Lake Hotel and Eastern Michigan University Corporate Education Center, April 13-16, 1994.
Appendix to Kernel Belief Propagation

Section 1 contains a review of Gaussian mixture BP and particle BP, as well as a detailed explanation of our strategy for learning edge potentials for these approaches from training data. Section 2 provides parameter settings and experiment details for particle BP and discrete BP, in the synthetic image denoising and depth reconstruction experiments. Section 3 contains a comparison of two different approximate feature sets: low rank approximation of the tensor features and low rank approximation of the individual features alone. Section 4 is an experiment on learning paper categories using citation networks. Sections 5 and 6 demonstrate the optimization objective of locally consistent BP updates, and provide a derivation of these updates in terms of the conditional expectation. Section 7 discusses the kernelization of Gaussian BP. Section 8 gives the error introduced by low rank approximation of the messages. We describe two competing approaches for nonparametric belief propagation: Gaussian mixture BP, originally known as non-parametric BP (Sudderth et al., 2003), and particle BP (Ihler & McAllester, 2009). For these algorithms, the edge potentials Ψ(x s , x t), self-potentials ψ(x t), and evidence potentials Ψ(x t , y t) must be provided in advance by the user. Thus, we begin by describing how the edge potentials in Section 2 of the main document may be learned from training data, but in a form applicable to these inference algorithms: we express P(x t |x s) as a mixture of Gaussians. We then describe the inference algorithms themselves. In learning the edge potentials, we turn to Sugiyama et al. (2010), who provide a least-squares estimate of a conditional density in the form of a mixture of Gaussians,
Multiple Beneficial Health Effects of Natural Alkylglycerols from Shark Liver Oil

Alkylglycerols (alkyl-Gro) are ether lipids abundant in the liver of some elasmobranch fish species such as ratfishes and some sharks. Shark liver oil from Centrophorus squamosus (SLO), or alkyl-Gro mix from this source, have several in vivo biological activities including stimulation of hematopoiesis and immunological defences, sperm quality improvement, or anti-tumor and anti-metastasis activities. Several mechanisms are suggested for these multiple activities, resulting from incorporation of alkyl-Gro into membrane phospholipids, and lipid signaling interactions. Natural alkyl-Gro mix from SLO contains several alkyl-Gro, varying by chain length and unsaturation. Six prominent constituents of natural alkyl-Gro mix, namely 12:0, 14:0, 16:0, 18:0, 16:1 n-7, and 18:1 n-9 alkyl-Gro, were synthesized and tested for anti-tumor and anti-metastatic activities on a model of grafted tumor in mice (3LL cells). 16:1 and 18:1 alkyl-Gro showed strong activity in reducing lung metastasis number, while saturated alkyl- Gro had weaker (16:0) or no (12:0, 14:0, 18:0) effect. Multiple compounds and mechanisms are probably involved in the multiple activities of natural alkyl-Gro.
Type checking higher-order polymorphic multi-methods

We present a new predicative and decidable type system, called ML¿, suitable for languages that integrate functional programming and parametric polymorphism in the tradition of ML [21, 28], and class-based object-oriented programming and higher-order multimethods in the tradition of CLOS [12]. Instead of using extensible records as a foundation for object-oriented extensions of functional languages, we propose to reinterpret ML datatype declarations as abstract and concrete class declarations, and to replace pattern matching on run-time values by dynamic dispatch on run-time types. ML¿ is based on universally quantified polymorphic constrained types. Constraints are conjunctions of inequalities between monotypes built from type constructors organized into extensible and partially ordered classes. We give type checking rules for a small, explicitly typed functional language à la XML [20] with multi-methods, show that the resulting system has decidable minimal types, and discuss subject reduction. Finally, we propose a new object-oriented programming language based on the ML¿ type system.
InP D-HBT IC's for 40 Gb/s and higher bitrate lightwave transceivers

The combination of device speed (f/sub T/, f/sub max/>150 GHz) and breakdown voltage (V/sup bcco/ of about 10 V), makes the double heterojunction InP-based HBT (D-HBT), a very attractive technology to implement the most demanding analog functions of 40 Gb/s transceivers. This is illustrated by the performance of a number of InP D-HBT circuits including millimeter-wave low phase-noise VCO's up to 146 GHz, low jitter 40 Gb/s limiting amplifiers, a 40 Gb/s driver amplifier with 4.5 V differential output swing and distributed pre-amplifiers with up to 1.4 THz gain-bandwidth.
Analysis and Modeling of Upstream Capacity in Multihop Packet CDMA Cellular Networks

We consider the problem of capacity modeling of wireless multihop packet CDMA networks with cellular overlay using simple forwarding strategies in the upstream. Considering the effect of shadowing and distancedependent path loss, we approximate the probability density of interference at each receiver and compare numerical and simulation results for different path loss parameters. We derive the probability density of the received power due to transmission of one packet as well as the probability distribution of the number of packets at each node. Subsequently, we use the above results to approximate the probability density of the total received power based on calculations of moments. We observe that the probability density of intercell interference due to transmissions from terminals and routers may be approximated by normal and log-normal densities, respectively. We quantify the total network performance based on throughput, total consumed power, and outage probability for different system parameters. Furthermore, when all links have the same efficiency, introducing routers into the network increases the mean and variance of interference due to a more random structure which consequently results in higher outage probability. However, this structure has the potential to support higher capacity due to a multifold decrease in total system consumed power and a combination of techniques in the physical, data link, and network layers.
SWiFT: A Novel Architecture for Seamless Wireless Internet for Fast Trains

It has been a challenge to support high speed (above 200 kms/hr - freeways and high speed train) mobile user with broadband data communication. Research community efforts are underway to develop wide area networks (wireless access and optical backbone) to support broadband to high speed vehicular users. ITU-R has proposed the International Mobile Telecommunication-Advanced (IMT-Advanced) technical requirements for supporting such usage scenarios. IEEE 802.16 m based (WiMAX) standard is working to meet the requirements of IMT-Advanced proposal. In this paper we have proposed a novel technology referred as Seamless Wireless internet for Fast Trains (SWiFT). In particular SWiFT architecture relies on a fast handoff mechanism by layer 2 (L2) triggering using a confidence factor (a probabilistic value evaluated by high speed movement and signal strength, to decide handoff). An interface gateway (IGW) that enables interoperability between WLAN (802.11e) and WiMAX 802.16 m is being designed to support the above handoff. Extensive simulation results by NS-2 shows that, SWiFT handoff latency is 52% less than mobile IPv6 (MIPv6) proposed by IETF.
From offline to online: connecting people with a mobile social networking application at a conference

People that we encounter and connect with at conferences, provide opportunities for extending our social networks from offline to online. How can users easily find and connect with the relevant people in the conference? We present Find & Connect, an application that combines proximity and homophily information. We conducted a user study and deployment of our application at the UbiComp 2011 conference, and discovered that most users found it useful for finding nearby people and making new connections. Studying the offline and online user behavior reveal that certain sessions are more conducive to greater offline and online interactions, and that users add contacts primarily due to proximity (i.e. they know each other in real life and have encountered before). These results can form the stepping stone to creating a user behavior model for offline and online.