Re-Engineering Ventilatory Support to Decrease Days and Improve Resource Utilization

Satellite Beam Handover Strategy to Improve Return Link Resource Utilization

Mobile communication on the multi-beam satellite communication has attracted attention, since Digital Video Broadcasting – Return Channel Satellite (DVB-RCS) has been successively implemented. In general, multi beam satellite employs uniform allocation of RF power and bandwidth to multi beams, since it is hard to predict the distribution of traffic requests and the arrival rate of new connectio...

Quality-Assuring Scheduling-Using Stochastic Behavior to Improve Resource Utilization

We present a unified model for admission and scheduling, applicable for various active resources such as CPU or disk to assure a requested quality in situations of temporary overload. The model allows us to predict and control the behavior of applications based on given quality requirements. It uses the variations in the execution time, i.e., the time any active resource is needed. We split res...

Re-engineering aptamers to support reagentless, self-reporting electrochemical sensors.

Electrochemical aptamer-based (E-AB) sensors have emerged as a promising and versatile new biosensor platform. Combining the generality and specificity of aptamer-ligand interactions with the selectivity and convenience of electrochemical readouts, this approach affords the detection of a wide variety of targets directly in complex, contaminant-ridden samples, such as whole blood, foodstuffs an...

Re-engineering SDI Development to Support a Spatially Enabled Society

Support for Re-engineering-in-the-large

The ever increasing size of software products makes the distinction between programming-in-thelarge (PITL) and programming-in-the-small (PITS) [Der76]. Some activities and tools consider software products with a coarse grain; a configuration manager, for example, consider only files without any knowledge of their content. This fact creates a deep gap between PITL and PITS tools; even when the s...