For many scientific applications, the data set cannot entirely fit in main memory. The data must reside out-of-core, i.e., on parallel disks. For many basic data-movement operations such as permuting, if the programmer does not design efficient...
Clinical medicine -- Practice. ; Medicine -- Practice. ; Group medical practice.
Health care micro-systems are small, organized groups of clinicians and staff working together with a shared clinical purpose to provide care for a defined set of patients. The size of individual micro-systems vary--a micro-system must be large...
Digital integrated circuits -- Testing. Digital integrated circuits -- Testing -- Mathematical models. Digital integrated circuits -- Design and construction.
Many alkaloids of biological importance have the 11H-pyrido (4,3,2-mn) acridine ring structure such as cystodytin and amphimedine. It would be desirable to find an effective way to synthesize a wide variety of these compounds using a single...
Elevated sympathetic discharge from the CNS is an underlying pathogenic mechanism in neurogenic hypertension and an exacerbating factor in chronic heart failure (CHF). Current treatment of these diseases focuses on attenuation of the downstream...
Information resources management -- Mathematical models. ; Database management -- Methodology. ; Change. ; World Wide Web.
Many modern information management tasks consist of an observer that must maintain current knowledge of a collection of changing information. The goal of this observer is to maintain acceptably accurate state estimates given limited observation...
Chlorinated ethenes are ubiquitous environmental pollutants of public concern due to their potential toxicity and carcinogenicity. Under appropriate conditions anaerobic bacteria mediate the dechlorination of perchloroethylene (a common dry...
Corpus callosum -- Physiology. Cerebral hemispheres. Laterality. Sensorimotor integration. Brain -- Localization of functions.
The overarching goal of the dissertation was to further understanding of the relationship between callosal organization, functional lateralization, and interhemispheric communication in the healthy, young adult brain. Three converging methodologies...
5,6-Azulyne, the first azulyne to be prepared, has been trapped with furan to give an adduct whose crystal structure reveals marked bond alternation in the azulene pi system. The double bond in the furan moiety is responsible in part for the bond...
Electronic data processing -- Distributed processing. ; Computer network architectures. ; Programming languages (Electronic computers) -- Semantics. ; Database management.
I tackle the problem of naming and sharing resources across administrative boundaries. Conventional systems manifest the hierarchy of typical administrative structure in the structure of their own mechanism. While natural for communication that...
A mobile agent is an autonomous program that can migrate under its own control from machine to machine in a heterogeneous network. In other words, the program can suspend its execution at an arbitrary point, transport itself to another machine, and...
Sensor networks are used in many realtime applications for collecting information from monitored environments and objects, such as moving vehicle tracking, battlefield reconnaissance, and habitat monitoring. Sensor networks are often deployed in...
Neonatal infections -- Prevention. Nosocomial infections -- Prevention. Neonatal intensive care -- Social aspects. Neonatal intensive care -- Psychological aspects.
Statement of the problem. Nosocomial bloodstream infections (NBSIs) are a significant source of morbidity and mortality for the very low birth weight babies (VLBW) in neonatal intensive care units (NICUs). Efforts to reduce the rates of infection...
Snow -- Permeability. ; Snow surveys -- Antarctica -- East Antarctica. ; Surfaces -- Areas and volumes. ; Gas flow. ; Porosity.
Recent field investigations of a megadunes region of East Antarctica provide evidence that differences in grain size, thermal conductivity, and permeability across a megadune are due to relative accumulation patterns in the absence of significant...
For a local field K, we study the affine buildings Ξ n and Δ n naturally associated to SL n ( K ) and Sp n ( K ), respectively. Since Sp n ( K ) is a subgroup of SL 2 n ( K ), we investigate properties of a natural embedding of Δ n in Ξ 2 n ....
Graph algorithms. Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy -- Data processing. Proteins -- Structure -- Mathematical models. Proteins -- Crosslinking -- Mathematical models. Protein folding -- Mathematical models.
The study of three-dimensional protein structures produces insights into protein function at the molecular level. Graphs provide a natural representation of protein structures and associated experimental data, and enable the development of graph...
Community mental health services -- Decision making. Mentally ill -- Care -- Decision making. Psychotherapist and patient.
Background. Electronic decision support systems (EDSS) using a shared decision making framework may be a new technology to facilitate service planning in public sector mental health care. The case management context is a ripe testing ground for...
Spatial localization of sound depends on interaural time delay (ITD), level difference, and on the interaction of the source with the head, torso, and pinna. Head-related transfer functions (HRTFs) model the dynamics that are used by listeners to...
For the most part, research on self-regulation has focused on behavior-control, which is how people self-regulate in the face of immediate urges and temptations (e.g., resisting cookies that are close at hand, or resisting beer that is being freely...
Up to 43% of patients with schizophrenia suffer from a co-occurring cannabis use disorder (CUD), which results in symptom exacerbation, decreased response to antipsychotic medication, and an overall worsening of disease course. Available treatments...