... Market-Oriented Grid andUtility Computing, is to capture the state of the art in both market-oriented Grid andutility computing research, and to identify potential research directions and technologies ... architecture and provides the hardware and software services and infrastructure for secure and uniform access to heterogeneous www.it-ebooks.info GRID COMPUTING resources and enables the formation and ... preparation of book and enabling us in easily navigating through Wiley’s publication process We thank our family members Smrithi, Soumya, and Radha Buyya; and Andrea, Gretchen, and Katja Bubendorfer...
... risk factors), and high risk (3–5 risk factors) EQ-5D The EQ-5D was used as a measure of respondents' HRQoL andutility values The EQ-5D provides a simple descriptive profile and a single index ... methodology of Cavrini and associates and Sitoh and colleagues [18,19], an ordinal variable for the EQ-5D index was created by categorizing the continuous variable into levels, and an ordered logit ... performed equally well when compared with other generic HRQoL and utility- based instruments, including the Health Utilities Index Mark andand SF-6D [26,29] In the present study, no clear trend in...
... loss andutility loss, and evaluate the safety -utility tradeoff for each candidate resolution • We present two prioritized-based resolutions to deal with policy inconsistencies for safety andutility ... policies when both safety andutility policies coexists Conclusion and future work In this paper, we handled policy inconsistency of safety andutility policies based on the safety -utility tradeoff in ... safety loss (Sloss) andutility loss (Uloss) Definition Let e 1and e2be two SSoD policies, we say that Se1 ≥ Se2 if and only if e ≽ e And Se1 > Se2 if loss loss loss loss and only if e1 ≻ e2...
... loss andutility loss, and evaluate the safety -utility tradeoff for each candidate resolution • We present two prioritized-based resolutions to deal with policy inconsistencies for safety andutility ... policies when both safety andutility policies coexists Conclusion and future work In this paper, we handled policy inconsistency of safety andutility policies based on the safety -utility tradeoff in ... safety loss (Sloss) andutility loss (Uloss) Definition Let e 1and e2be two SSoD policies, we say that Se1 ≥ Se2 if and only if e ≽ e And Se1 > Se2 if loss loss loss loss and only if e1 ≻ e2...
... networks and characterizes the cases of existence of allocations combining min-max fairness andutility optimality In Section we prove that any min-max fair and utility- optimal power and weight ... power and weight allocation (r, w) combines utility optimality and min-max fairness, and any other power and weight allocation in {v : v = c} × A, for any c > 0, is either not min-max fair or utility ... RK and w ∈ W , combines utility optimality ++ and min-max fairness Whenever r ∈ R and r ∈ RK , then / ++ (r, w) is not a power and weight allocation Whenever r ∈ R / or w ∈ W , then the power and...
... findings in hands and feet were comparable between anti-CCP-positive and anti-CCP-negative patients (14% versus 12%) for both IgA-class and IgG-class antibodies IgA anti-CCP status and IgG anti-CCP ... interests Authors' contributions AS, AK and TS participated in the conception and design, acquisition of data, analysis and interpretation of the data, and writing the manuscript ÅR-O participated ... anti-CCP) occur in recent-onset RA and how they compare with IgG anti-CCP as a predictor of the disease course Patients and methods Patients Three hundred and twenty patients with recent-onset...
... involving the first and fifth metatarsal phalangeal joints, and proximal and distal interphalangeal joints Typical intratophus calcifications may be seen in intraosseous tophi and in periarticular ... phalangeal joint, midfoot and Achilles tendon (a) Dorsal view and (b) lateral view 80 kbp and 140 kbp This technology has been used for compositional analysis of kidney stones and allows for colour ... amyloid arthropathy, synovial chondromatosis, and long-standing rheumatoid arthritis [18], and even other granulomatous diseases such as tuberculosis and fungal infections, may show similar findings...
... clones; developed and standardized majority of the markers; validated and analyzed the data; drafted the manuscript PR, AL and AV standardized and validated some of the markers and helped in analysis ... proven to be too slow and severely constrained owing to various factors The latter includes: genetic and physiological makeup (low genetic diversity and ploidy barrier in arabicas, and self incompatibility/ ... Frequency and distribution of SSRs in coffee genome A total of 76 targeted SSRs (DNRs and TNRs) and 10 nontargeted DNRs were assessed for their lengths, distribution in the present library, and their...
... unusually large and good high-quality Jane and Ron are in the Old Port restaurant area looking for somewhere to eat Jane: Ron: Jane: Ron: Let's find a cafe and have a quick snack And I could really ... lived here almost a year now and I'm really beginning to I'll leave the keys to my flat with the neighbour Just go in and Jane thought she would miss her friends and family when she started her ... Well, how a b o u t having a soft drink and a bag of crisps now, and a proper lunch later? Crisps will only spoil your appetite Look, this restaurant looks good and the set menu is reasonably priced...
... initiated by and held between local branch office IP and PSTN phones? Business Ready Branch Solutions for Enterprise and Small Offices Reference Design Guide 2-16 OL-7470-01 Chapter Planning and Designing ... PBX and a PSTN central office, or between other enterprise offices Business Ready Branch Solutions for Enterprise and Small Offices Reference Design Guide OL-7470-01 2-17 Chapter Planning and ... primarily used to serve branch offices where a centralized CallManager cluster and Unity Voice Mail system resides in the headquarters site, and provides all the call processing and voice mail services...
... Technology & Development Vietnam Education Foundation and the Digital Utility have a large permanent staff, there is a small core group and a large number of young, bright scientists rotated ... they will find ways to apply for interesting research funding and return to their home institutions and improve the level of teaching and research Vietnam is currently in line to be a MSI member ... implications This is called the “Digital Utility. ” The fact is that good research requires good libraries and access to huge amounts of information that is complete and up to date Very few developing...
... Health and Human Services’ offices, agencies, and regional ac- tivities regarding women’s health and stimulate ac- tivities and facilitate coordination of such depart- mental and agency offices ... establish short-range and long-range goals 17 and objectives within the Department of Health and 18 Human Services and, as relevant and appropriate, 19 coordinate with other appropriate offices on activi- ... public 16 and professional education, services, and treatment; 17 ‘‘(2) establish short-range and long-range goals 18 and objectives within the Centers for women’s health 19 and, as relevant and appropriate,...
... facilities and Cedar Hills Regional Landfill Fleet facilities take up landfill space and should be relocated to extend the life of the landfill The County projects its Cedar Hills Regional Landfill ... of the landfill • Spends more than necessary on and does not adequately manage fleet operations Fleet facilities occupy landfill space and should be relocated to extend the life of the landfill ... testing and benchmarking, we identified issues and leveraged our subject matter resources to recommend leading practices and or to create suggested standard procedures, processes, controls and recommendations...
... such as more and most were handled in a similar manner The Caption Processing Module applies a part-of-speech tagger and a stemmer to the caption in order to identify nouns, adjectives, and the root ... line graphs and pie charts, and to complex graphics, such as grouped and composite bar charts Summary To our knowledge, our project is the first to investigate the problem of understanding the ... is “Soaring Demand for Servers” which is the caption on a graphic that conveys the rapid increase in demand for servers Here the adjective soaring is derived from the verb soar, and suggests that...
... VCH9, and GCfEVY + VCH9) and VGCfEQ454E, and monopartite (VGCfEH436E, VGCfEVY) switch formats and compared to the data obtained from the gene switches containing wild-type CfEcR (GCfEWt + VCH9 and ... the gene switch together and develop a tight EcR gene regulation system with improved ligand sensitivity and reduced background expression in the absence of chemical ligand [15] Our previous studies ... differences between the CfEcRWt + CH9 and CfEcRVY + CH9 two-hybrid gene switches in terms of background expression and ligand sensitivity VY mutations improve the ligand sensitivity of the monopartite...
... anonymity and safe from physical action References Anderson, C., & Dill, K (2000) Video games and aggressive thoughts, feelings, and behaviour in the laboratory and life, Journal of Personality and ... construction and presentation of their identity and sexuality in online chat rooms, to compare these processes with the literature on offline identity and sexuality in adolescence, and to assess ... both monitored and unmonitored chat rooms as two kinds of chat room ecologies when examining teen explorations of sexuality and identity construction in chat rooms Monitoring of Chat Rooms Monitoring...
... pulp and metalized inhouse The film is printable with solvent and with water-based and UV inks and has an excellent luster and sheen for pack presentation NatureFlex NM builds on the longstanding ... suitable for use with chilled and frozen products such as fruit, vegetables, salads, and sandwiches BioPeel has a broad sealing window and clarity, is available with antifog, and can be perforated BioPeel ... Poland 13 Mohanty, A.K., Misra, M and Hinrichsen, G (2000) Biofibres, biodegradable polymers and biocomposites: an overview Macromolecular Materials and Engineering, 276/277, 14 Moscicki, L and...
... weakly standard interference function on RKu ++ ) (2.26) 2.4 Standard Interference Functions and Power Control 25 3) Let IJ be dened as in (2.24) Then J is a standard interference function if and ... weakly standard and continuous on RKu This also holds for standard + interference functions, which are a subclass of weakly standard interference functions 2.6 QoS Regions, Feasibility, and Fixed ... non-negative reals and positive reals are denoted by • Matrices and vectors are denoted by bold capital letters and bold lowercase • Let R++ , respectively RK denotes the R+ and Kg -dimensional...
... mean and median IGFBP-3 and -4 tumor expression and sera concentrations, patients were grouped into those with primary disease and those with metastatic disease The relationship between IGFBP-3 and ... percentile and are indicated by points outside of the box and whiskers 39 patients had both sera and tumor specimens available for correlation of IGFBP-3 expression and 56 patients had both sera and ... malignant cells [1-3] Components of this system include the ligands IGF1 and IGF2, their cell surface tyrosine kinase receptors IGF1R and IGF2R, and seven IGF binding proteins (IGFBP) IGF1R has been shown...