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From Monolithic Systems to Microservices: A Decomposition Framework based on Process Mining (2019)

<p>Decomposition is one of the most complex tasks during the migration from monolithic systems to microservices, generally performed manually, based on the experience of the software architects. In this work, we propose a 6-step framework to reduce the subjectivity of the decomposition process. The framework provides software architects with a set of decomposition options, together with a set of measures to evaluate and compare their quality. The decomposition options are identified based on the independent execution traces of the system by means of the application of a process-mining tool to the log traces collected at runtime. We validated the process, in an industrial project, by comparing the proposed decomposition options with the one proposed by the software architect that manually analyzed the system. The application of our framework allowed the company to identify issues in their software that the architect did not spot manually, and to discover more suitable decomposition options that the architect did not consider. The framework could be very useful also in other companies to improve the quality of the decomposition of any monolithic system, identifying different decomposition strategies and reducing the subjectivity of the decomposition process. Moreover, researchers could extend our approach increasing the support and further automating the decomposition support.</p>
Composition of rough lemon leaf oil (1981)

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVArticleNEXTComposition of rough lemon leaf oilEric D. Lund, Philip E. Shaw, and Cora L. KirklandCite this: J. Agric. Food Chem. 1981, 29, 3, 490–494Publication Date (Print):May 1, 1981Publication History Published online1 May 2002Published inissue 1 May 1981https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jf00105a013https://doi.org/10.1021/jf00105a013research-articleACS PublicationsRequest reuse permissionsArticle Views125Altmetric-Citations14LEARN ABOUT THESE METRICSArticle Views are the COUNTER-compliant sum of full text article downloads since November 2008 (both PDF and HTML) across all institutions and individuals. These metrics are regularly updated to reflect usage leading up to the last few days.Citations are the number of other articles citing this article, calculated by Crossref and updated daily. Find more information about Crossref citation counts.The Altmetric Attention Score is a quantitative measure of the attention that a research article has received online. Clicking on the donut icon will load a page at altmetric.com with additional details about the score and the social media presence for the given article. Find more information on the Altmetric Attention Score and how the score is calculated. Share Add toView InAdd Full Text with ReferenceAdd Description ExportRISCitationCitation and abstractCitation and referencesMore Options Share onFacebookTwitterWechatLinked InRedditEmail Other access optionsGet e-Alertsclose Get e-Alerts
Quantitative carbon ion beam radiography and tomography with a flat-panel detector (2012)

High dose gradients are inherent to ion beam therapy. This results in high sensitivity to discrepancies between planned and delivered dose distributions. Therefore an accurate knowledge of the ion stopping power of the traversed tissue is critical. One proposed method to ensure high quality dose deposition is to measure the stopping power by ion radiography. Although the idea of imaging with highly energetic ions is more than forty years old, there is a lack of simple detectors suitable for this purpose. In this study the performance of an amorphous silicon flat-panel detector, originally designed for photon imaging, was investigated for quantitative carbon ion radiography and tomography. The flat-panel detector was exploited to measure the water equivalent thickness (WET) and water equivalent path length (WEPL) of a phantom at the Heidelberg Ion-Beam Therapy Center (HIT). To do so, the ambiguous correlation of detector signal to particle energy was overcome by active or passive variation of carbon ion beam energy and measurement of the signal-to-beam energy correlation. The active method enables one to determine the WET of the imaged object with an uncertainty of 0.5 mm WET. For tomographic WEPL measurements the passive method was exploited resulting in an accuracy of 0.01 WEPL. The developed imaging technique presents a method to measure the two-dimensional maps of WET and WEPL of phantoms with a simple and commercially available detector. High spatial resolution of 0.8 × 0.8 mm(2) is given by the detector design. In the future this powerful tool will be used to evaluate the performance of the treatment planning algorithm by studying WET uncertainties.
Bit-Serial Inner Product Processors in VLSI (1981)

In this paper we describe a bit-serial pipelined implementation of an inner product processor,\nand related interconnections of a number of such processors on a single chip. We argue\nthat bit-serial computational models are particularly suited for VLSI, because of relatively inexpensive\ncommunication links and arithmetic processing elements, in terms of the area occupied\non silicon. Sixteen inner product processors, described here, may be easily placed on a single\n40-pin chip in today's NMOS technology with a 2 micron lambda. Similar arguments for bitserial\narithmetic were used in [3]. in a description of a design of a general purpose massively\nparallel processor.
'Life Cycle Costing' for Landfill Waste Management Facilities (1993)

This paper examines the application of 'life-cycle' costing to the calculation of 'real' cost gate charges for landfill waste management facilities based on recent landfill development cost estimates prepared for a local authority. An assessment is then made of the implications of 'real' landfill charges on those waste management options higher in the waste management hierarchy.
Applied optics at NBS (1953)

Applied optics, in a general sense, should have a very broad connotation, including all branches of optics that have been found useful to industry, and on this basis it should certainly embrace spectroscopy, interferometry, photometry, colorimetry, polarimetry, and, in fact, virtually all of optics. This wide use of optics is indicative of the manner in which the major portions of many branches of science have been attracted into industry and have become of commercial importance during the past half century. However, telescopes, microscopes, and photographic objectives were the principal optical instruments used by industry or constructed in quantity prior to 1900 or 1920 and, consequently, the term applied optics is generally restricted to the science of designing, building, and testing optical instruments.
Human Adenovirus Type 5 Induces Cell Lysis through Autophagy and Autophagy-Triggered Caspase Activity (2011)

Oncolytic adenoviruses, such as Delta-24-RGD, are promising therapies for patients with brain tumor. Clinical trials have shown that the potency of these cancer-selective adenoviruses should be increased to optimize therapeutic efficacy. One potential strategy is to increase the efficiency of adenovirus-induced cell lysis, a mechanism that has not been clearly described. In this study, for the first time, we report that autophagy plays a role in adenovirus-induced cell lysis. At the late stage after adenovirus infection, numerous autophagic vacuoles accompany the disruption of cellular structure, leading to cell lysis. The virus induces a complete autophagic process from autophagosome initiation to its turnover through fusion with the lysosome although the formation of the autophagosome is sufficient for virally induced cell lysis. Importantly, downmodulation of autophagy genes (ATG5 or ATG10) rescues the infected cells from being lysed by the virus. Moreover, autophagy triggers caspase activity via the extrinsic FADD/caspase 8 pathway, which also contributes to adenovirus-mediated cell lysis. Therefore, our study implicates autophagy and caspase activation as part of the mechanism for cell lysis induced by adenovirus and suggests that manipulation of the process is a potential strategy to optimize clinical efficacy of oncolytic adenoviruses.
Faster MPTCP sub-flow establishment for interactive applications (2017)

MPTCP's ability to bond interfaces regardless of the underlying technologies offers capacity boost and resiliency for applications in multi-access wireless networks. MPTCP connections start with a single master sub-flow that needs to become fully established before any attempt is made to initiate additional sub-flows. The master's path is selected by the host's routing table, which usually reflects static cost metrics instead of the variable capacity or latency of the paths. For sensitive applications, this rigidity may penalize performance compared to an ideal case when the best path is selected dynamically for the master sub-flow. Additionally, if there is any forwarding problem along the default route, MPTCP connections stuck at the handshake even in the presence of usable alternative paths. A potential solution to both problems is to change MPTCP's sequential connection establishment procedure to simultaneous sub-flow creation. As this disrupts the current protocol design, it is especially worth to evaluate the gains achievable by the solution. This work is the first to quantify the potential benefits of simultaneous sub-flow establishment through simulations of interactive web traffic with multi-access devices over Wi-Fi and LTE. Results indicate significantly shorter download times when the default route performs worse than alternative paths.
A visual interaction system using real-time face tracking (2002)

This paper describes a new method for pose estimation of a human face moving abruptly in the real world and its hardware implementation for real-time operation. The virtues of this method are the use of very simple calculation, the correlation among multiple model images, and the absence of any facial features such as facial organs, so that it is very robust and can be easily implemented with simple hardware.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">></ETX>
Reactions of Ethylenimines. IX. The Mechanisms of Ring Openings of Ethylenimines in Acidic Aqueous Solutions<sup>1</sup> (1958)

ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVArticleNEXTReactions of Ethylenimines. IX. The Mechanisms of Ring Openings of Ethylenimines in Acidic Aqueous Solutions1Joseph E. Earley, Charles E. O'Rourke, Leallyn B. Clapp, John O. Edwards, and Bernard C. LawesCite this: J. Am. Chem. Soc. 1958, 80, 13, 3458–3462Publication Date (Print):July 1, 1958Publication History Published online1 May 2002Published inissue 1 July 1958https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ja01546a062https://doi.org/10.1021/ja01546a062research-articleACS PublicationsRequest reuse permissionsArticle Views308Altmetric-Citations52LEARN ABOUT THESE METRICSArticle Views are the COUNTER-compliant sum of full text article downloads since November 2008 (both PDF and HTML) across all institutions and individuals. These metrics are regularly updated to reflect usage leading up to the last few days.Citations are the number of other articles citing this article, calculated by Crossref and updated daily. Find more information about Crossref citation counts.The Altmetric Attention Score is a quantitative measure of the attention that a research article has received online. Clicking on the donut icon will load a page at altmetric.com with additional details about the score and the social media presence for the given article. Find more information on the Altmetric Attention Score and how the score is calculated. Share Add toView InAdd Full Text with ReferenceAdd Description ExportRISCitationCitation and abstractCitation and referencesMore Options Share onFacebookTwitterWechatLinked InRedditEmail Other access optionsGet e-Alertsclose Get e-Alerts
On the use of multitone techniques for assessing RF components' intermodulation distortion (1999)

A comprehensive analysis of various techniques currently used for assessing microwave components' nonlinear distortion behavior is presented in this paper. The output of a third-order system subject to a two- or three-tone input is given, and then used as the comparison reference for studying the response to a general multitone or random excitation. Theoretical results thus obtained allowed the generalization of standard two-tone intermodulation (IMD) figures of merit, to multitone IMD ratio, multitone or noise adjacent channel power ratio, and noise power ratio (NPR). This approach proved that normal NPR tests produce optimistic results that can be as large as 7 dB when evaluating in-band co-channel power interference.
Design of a Charge Equalizer Based on Battery Modularization (2009)

The charge equalizer design for a series-connected battery string is very challenging because it needs to satisfy many requirements, such as implementation possibility, equalization speed, equalization efficiency, controller simplicity, size and cost issues, voltage and current stress, and so on. Numerous algorithms and circuits were developed to meet the foregoing demands, and some interesting results have been obtained. However, for a large number of cells, for example, 80 or more batteries, the previous approaches might not easily satisfy the foregoing requirement. To overcome these difficulties, we propose a charge equalizer design method based on a battery modularization technique. In this method, a very long battery string is divided into several modules, and then, an intramodule equalizer and an outer-module equalizer are designed. This battery modularization scheme effectively reduces the number of cells that we consider in an equalizer design procedure; thus, the design of a charge equalizer becomes easier. Furthermore, by applying the previously verified charge equalizers to the intramodule and the outer module, we can make the equalizer design more flexible. Several examples and experimental results are presented to demonstrate the usefulness of the charge equalizer design method.
A Suitability Study of Discretization Methods for Associative Classifiers (2010)

Discretization is a popular approach for handling numeric attributes in machine learning. The attributes in the datasets are both nominal and continuous. Most of the Classifiers are capable to be applied on discretized data. Hence, pre-processing of continuous data for converting them into discretized data is a necessary step before being used for the Classification Rule Mining approaches. Recently developed Associative Classifiers like CBA, CMAR and CPAR are almost equal in accuracy and have outperformed traditional classifiers. The distribution of continuous data into discrete ranges may affect the accuracy of classification. This work provides a comparative study of few discretization methods with these new classifiers. The target is to find some suitable discretization methods that are more suitable with these associative classifiers.
A 32x32x32, spatially distributed 3D FFT in four microseconds on Anton (2009)

Anton, a massively parallel special-purpose machine for molecular dynamics simulations, performs a 32x32x32 FFT in 3.7 microseconds and a 64x64x64 FFT in 13.3 microseconds on a configuration with 512 nodes---an order of magnitude faster than all other FFT implementations of which we are aware. Achieving this FFT performance requires a coordinated combination of computation and communication techniques that leverage Anton's underlying hardware mechanisms. Most significantly, Anton's communication subsystem provides over 300 gigabits per second of bandwidth per node, message latency in the hundreds of nanoseconds, and support for word-level writes and single-ended communication. In addition, Anton's general-purpose computation system incorporates primitives that support the efficient parallelization of small 1D FFTs. Although Anton was designed specifically for molecular dynamics simulations, a number of the hardware primitives and software implementation techniques described in this paper may also be applicable to the acceleration of FFTs on general-purpose high-performance machines.
A Zero-Voltage Switching Three-Phase Inverter (2013)

A new modulation scheme for the active clamping zero-voltage switching (ZVS) inverter is proposed. With the proposed modulation scheme, the inverter can realize ZVS operation in all switching devices and can remarkably suppress the reverse recovery current in insulated-gate bipolar transistor's antiparallel diodes as well. All the switches can operate at a fixed frequency in the new modulation scheme. Also, with the new modulation scheme, the ZVS inverter has some voltage boost capability, which is suitable for renewable energy generation. The inverter can achieve ZVS in all the switches under the grid current power factor angle from zero to ±π/6. The soft-switching condition of this inverter is analyzed. The operation principal and design guideline are described in detail. The previous theory is verified in a 30-kW inverter prototype.
Dynamic load balancing for distributed movie based browser systems (2002)

This paper describes the dynamic load balancing of distributed movie based browser systems, which can visually be navigated by the integration of movies and linking-information. The linking-information indicates replicated multimedia information (such as sounds, videos and multiple super high definition (SHD) pictures) stored in each server on the network. Proposed new dynamic media partitioning performs the load-balancing of the respective server and network for multimedia information. The proposed method efficiently uses the servers and network, reserving and allocating the bandwidths of the transmission lines between a client and servers on the network, monitoring the load each server, and effectively partitioning continuous multimedia information. This method provides a solution to the problem caused by lack of the bandwidths that the server supplies to the client, or by lack of the bandwidths of the transmission lines between a client and a server on the network. The problem is derived from the deficiency of the throughput (64 Mbit/s) for lines with required high bandwidths (192 Mbit/s), long delay times (the round-trip time measures 8 ms) and a window size of 64 Kbytes. Improved dynamic media partitioning including a round-trip time parameter provides high throughput of 192 Mbits/sec by partitioning and allocating the load to 3 servers, giving a solution to this problem.
Understanding MOSFET mismatch for analog design (2003)

Despite the significance of matched devices in analog circuit design, mismatch modeling for design application has been lacking. This paper addresses misconceptions about MOSFET mismatch for analog design. V/sub t/ mismatch does not follow a simplistic 1/(/spl radic/area) law, especially for wide/short and narrow/long devices, which are common geometries in analog circuits. Further, V/sub t/ and gain factor are not appropriate parameters for modeling mismatch. A physically based mismatch model can be used to obtain dramatic improvements in prediction of mismatch. This model is applied to MOSFET current mirrors to show some nonobvious effects over bias, geometry, and multiple-unit devices.
A Reassessment of the Neuropathology of Frontotemporal Dementia Linked to Chromosome 3 (2007)

A large Danish family has previously been reported in which autosomal dominant frontotemporal dementia (FTD) is genetically linked to chromosome 3 (FTD-3). A mutation was recently identified in the CHMP2B gene that is probably responsible for causing disease in this family. Because of its neuropathologic findings, FTD-3 was originally categorized as a subtype of frontotemporal lobar degeneration, termed "dementia lacking distinctive histopathology." We now report a reevaluation of the neuropathologic changes in this family. Postmortem material from 4 affected family members was available for examination. Gross examination revealed generalized cortical atrophy that was most severe in frontal and temporal cortices. Microscopy showed loss of cortical neurons, microvacuolation of layer II, mild gliosis, and demyelination of the deep white matter. Results of immunohistochemical staining for alpha-synuclein, prion protein, neurofilament, and tau protein were unremarkable. Variable numbers of small, round, ubiquitin-positive cytoplasmic inclusions were present in the dentate granule layer of the hippocampus in all 4 cases. Rare ubiquitin-positive inclusions were also found in frontal and temporal cortical neurons. These inclusions were also positive for p62 but not for TDP-43. The finding of ubiquitin- and p62-positive, TDP-43-negative cytoplasmic inclusions in the hippocampus and neocortex suggests reclassification of the neuropathology of FTD-3 as a unique subtype of frontotemporal lobar degeneration with ubiquitin-positive inclusions that are TDP-43-negative.
Ultrasonic particle image velocimetry for improved flow gradient imaging: algorithms, methodology and validation (2010)

This paper presents a new algorithm for ultrasonic particle image velocimetry (Echo PIV) for improving the flow velocity measurement accuracy and efficiency in regions with high velocity gradients. The conventional Echo PIV algorithm has been modified by incorporating a multiple iterative algorithm, sub-pixel method, filter and interpolation method, and spurious vector elimination algorithm. The new algorithms' performance is assessed by analyzing simulated images with known displacements, and ultrasonic B-mode images of in vitro laminar pipe flow, rotational flow and in vivo rat carotid arterial flow. Results of the simulated images show that the new algorithm produces much smaller bias from the known displacements. For laminar flow, the new algorithm results in 1.1% deviation from the analytically derived value, and 8.8% for the conventional algorithm. The vector quality evaluation for the rotational flow imaging shows that the new algorithm produces better velocity vectors. For in vivo rat carotid arterial flow imaging, the results from the new algorithm deviate 6.6% from the Doppler-measured peak velocities averagely compared to 15% of that from the conventional algorithm. The new Echo PIV algorithm is able to effectively improve the measurement accuracy in imaging flow fields with high velocity gradients.
Human Rheumatoid Factor Production Is Dependent on CD40 Signaling and Autoantigen (1999)

High-affinity pathologic rheumatoid factor (RF) B cells occur in autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, but are deleted in healthy individuals. The reasons for the survival and differentiation of these autoreactive B cells in rheumatoid arthritis are not known. Previous studies in mice transgenic for a human IgM RF have shown that peripheral encounter with soluble human IgG leads to deletion of high-affinity RF B cells; however, deletion can be prevented when concomitant T cell help is provided. This study aimed to further discern the minimal factors necessary not only for the in vivo survival of RF B cells, but also for their differentiation into Ab-secreting cells. The combination of MHC class II-reactive T cells and Ag induced the production of RF in human IgM RF transgenic mice, while either stimulus alone was ineffective. Neutralizing Abs against CD40 ligand (CD40L), but not against IL-4 or IL-15, abrogated IgM-RF production. Moreover, blockade of CD40L-CD40 allowed IgG to delete the RF precursor cells. Most importantly, activating Abs to CD40 could substitute entirely for T cell help in promoting the survival of RF precursors and in stimulating RF synthesis in T cell deficient animals. The data indicate that CD40 signaling alone can prevent deletion of RF B cells by Ag and in the presence of IgG is sufficient to trigger RF synthesis. The results suggest that selective induction of apoptosis in high-affinity RF B cells may be achieved by blockade of CD40L-CD40 interaction.