The Penny: a Suggestion

A Suggestion on Suggestion

When the penny drops

To cite: Parkinson MH, Patel R, Davagnanam I, et al. Pract Neurol 2014;14: 409–414. A 26-year-old woman presented after developing slurred speech and drooling overnight. She had a 6-month history of tiredness and poor concentration, and episodes of loss of consciousness accompanied by paraesthesia of her hands, feet and mouth. Occasionally, one arm would ‘hang in a strange way’. Her mother repo...

Sorting 39GB for a Penny

I sorted 39GB for a penny using a cheap general purpose processor and two disk drives, running each drive at about 28MB/s sustained. No special-purpose processors, such as GPUs, were employed for the in-memory part of the sort. The sort is a general-purpose sort that can compare records of arbitrary size, and does not rely on the keys being uniformly randomly distributed.

2003 Penny sort

The goal of the PennySort benchmark is to reflect the progress done by technology, in particular, evolvement of I/O OS subsystems and file systems. This benchmark measures what data volume can be sorted for “one penny” on a system, which cost is distributed over three years. This work decribes how to build a cost-effective system for this competition, using our high-performance external algorit...

Feasibility Study for the Establishment of Telemedicine: A Review Study and a Suggestion for Iran

Introduction: Telemedicine is considered as an integral part of the management of health care services and health information systems. This study aimed to review the studies on the goals and applications of telemedicine in different countries and to present a suggestion for the health system of Iran. Method: In this systemic study using keywords of tele-medicine, electronic health، tele health,...