“Come on f––er, just load!” Powerlessness, waiting, and life without broadband

Nanodevices come to life.

Just in Time Load Balancing

Leveraging Loop Level Parallelism (LLP) is one of the most attractive techniques for improving program performance on emerging multi-cores. Ordinary programs contain a large amount of parallel and DOALL loops, however emerging multi-core designs feature (a) a rapid increase in the number of on-chip cores and (b) the ways such cores share on-chip resources such as pipeline and memory hierarchy, ...

Dietary glycemic load in adolescent girls with and without acne

Background: Acne is a chronic inflammatory skin disease and a cosmetic problem with considerable emotional and psychological side effects and symptoms, such as pain and pruritus. Some controversies exist concerning the involvement of dietary factors, including glycemic load (GL), in the pathogenesis of acne. Accordingly, we aimed to determine the role of GL and anthropometric m...

Information architecture in JASIST: Just where did we come from?

The emergence of Information Architecture within the information systems world has been simultaneously drawn out yet rapid. Those with an eye on history are quick to point to Wurman’s 1976 use of the term “architecture of information,” but it has only been in the last 2 years that IA has become the source of sufficient interest for people to label themselves professionally as Information Archit...

Advanced access: more than just GP waiting times?

BACKGROUND Advanced access has been forwarded as a strategy for reducing waiting times in primary care; however, previous evaluations have raised important issues regarding its appropriateness. OBJECTIVES The objectives of this paper are to assess the impact of advanced access on patient access to primary care services, and its broader effects on stakeholders. METHODS A quantitative analysi...