What happens in the womb sets the stage for development of the child and influences the health of offspring throughout their life course. Until recently, however, most epidemiologists focusing on adult diseases paid little attention to fetal origins of health. Due in part to tantalizing reports that birthweight is associated with health outcomes in both children and adults, that has changed. In...

(DSLM), a program can be built by linking program modules to form a network through which data passes. The network is speciJed by the program designer using a mixture of pre-coded and custom coded modules. This linkage technique and the capabilities that result from it constitute an approach to programming that is radically diferent from conventional techniques. It can increase the productivity...

We show how an extended Prolog can be exploited to implement different electronic CAD tools. Starting with a computer hardware description language (CHDL) several problems like digital circuit analysis, simulation and code generation for programmable microprocessors are discussed. For that purpose a part of the MIMOLA (machine independent micropro-gramming language) system MSS (MIMOLA hardware ...

Analogical planning provides a means of solving problems where other machine learning meth­ ods fail, because it does not require numer­ ous previous examples or a rich domain the­ ory. Given a problem in an unfamiliar domain (the target case), an analogical planning sys­ tem locates a successful plan in a similar do­ main (the bast case), and uses the similarities to generate the target plan. ...

The U niversity S tan d in g Committee on Gay and Lesbian Student Needs will soon become the Core Council lor Gay and Lesbian Students — a restru c­ tured group with increased stu­ dent membership to better meet campus needs, University officials said Friday. “It’s exciting — I think it’s a step forward in terms of service to our gay, lesbian and bisexual s tuden ts and m aking su re we create ...

Constraint programming o ers modeling features and solution methods that are un available in mathematical programming but its models are not declarative This raises this issue as to whether the two approaches can be combined in a declarative modeling frame work This paper proposes a general declarative modeling system in which the conditional structure of the constraints shows how to integrate ...

SKaMPI is a benchmark for MPI implementations Its pur pose is the detailed analysis of the runtime of individual MPI operations and comparison of these for di erent implementations of MPI SKaMPI can be con gured and tuned in many ways operations measurement pre cision communication modes packet sizes number of processors used etc The technically most interesting feature of SKaMPI are measure me...

This paper presents a strategy for choosing the initial point slacks and multipliers in interior methods for nonlinear programming It consists of rst computing a Newton like step to estimate the magnitude of these three variables and then shifting the slacks and multipliers so that they are su ciently positive The new strategy has the option of respecting the initial estimate of the solution gi...

Raycasting is a DVR Direct Volume Rendering tech nique DVR is a class of techniques for graphically visualizing D data The data can be from any source as long is it is representable by discrete sample values at each point in a three dimensional grid Common sources of such data include CT Computed Tomog raphy MRI Magnetic Resonance Imaging and ul trasound scans The data can come from simulation ...

Representing shapes is a signi cant problem for vi sion systems that must recognize or classify objects We derive a representation for a given shape by inves tigating its self similarities and constructing its shape axis SA and shape axis tree SA tree We start with a shape its boundary contour and two di erent parameterizations for the contour To measure its self similarity we consider matching...