Foraminferal Flint from Somali

Lessons Identified from Somali Piracy

At the time of writing, the number of successful attacks against ships by Somali pirates has reached a five-year low. Whilst the exact reason for the reduction in Somali attacks is unclear, the combined success of the military forces, the use of the industry‟s Best Management Practices (BMP), plus the increased deployment of private armed guards, would all appear to be important factors. The po...

Joseph Marshall Flint

NTL vs FLINT

All tests were carried out on a very lightly loaded machine with a 64-bit Intel “Haswell” CPU (Intel Xeon CPU E5-2698 v3 at 2.30GHz) with plenty of memory (over 250GB). The operating system was Cent OS. The compiler was gcc v4.8.5. We compared NTL v9.9.1 with FLINT v2.5.2. These were both built using GMP v6.1.0. All of these were the most recent releases of these packages at the time we carried...

Childhood vaccine beliefs reported by Somali and non-Somali parents.

BACKGROUND In 2011, an outbreak of measles in Minnesota was traced back to an unvaccinated Somali child. The purpose of this project was to (1) ascertain whether Somali parents are more likely than non-Somalis to refuse childhood vaccinations, particularly the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine and (2) determine what factors influence the decision not to vaccinate. METHODS We explored parent...

Serverless Data Analytics with Flint

Serverless architectures organized around looselycoupled function invocations represent an emerging design for many applications. Recent work mostly focuses on user-facing products and event-driven processing pipelines. In this paper, we explore a completely different part of the application space and examine the feasibility of analytical processing on big data using a serverless architecture. ...