Showdown nears for climate deal

The India Nuclear Deal: Implications for Global Climate Change

Crash development of AIDS test nears goal.

Impending development of a blood test for AIDS has paved the way for an epidemiological study by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. Blood samples from 200,000 presumably healthy donors will soon be drawn and stored, to be screened when the test becomes available. Donors and recipients of blood which tests AIDS-positive will then be followed to see if AIDS develops. The study raise...

US Energy and Climate Legislation – The Big Deal

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Video Browser Showdown by NUS

The known item search task (KIS) aims to retrieve a unique video or video clip in the video corpus. This paper presents a novel interactive video browsing system for KIS task. Our system integrates visual content-based, text-based and concept-based search approaches. It allows users to flexibly choose the search approaches. Moreover, two novel feedback schemes are employed: first, users can spe...

Cache Showdown: The Good, Bad, and Ugly

Prefetching algorithms have been mainly studied in the context of the Coverage and Accuracy metrics. While this is an appropriate metric for prefetching into separate stream buffers, it is a poor assessment of prefetching into a shared cache structure where cache pollution can become a serious factor. Traditionally, prefetches have been categorized as ”good” or ”bad” if they are accessed or are...