Firas A. Jassim Faculty of Administrative Sciences Management Information Systems Department Irbid National University Irbid, 2600, Jordan [email protected] Abstract Image compression is an important filed in image processing. The science welcomes any tinny contribution that may increase the compression ratio by whichever insignificant percentage. Therefore, the essential contribution in this...

Input/output (I/O) operations can represent a significant proportion of the run-time when large scientific applications are run in parallel. Although there have been advances in the form of file-format libraries, file system design and I/O hardware, a growing divergence exists between the performance of parallel file systems and compute processing rates. In this paper we utilise RIOT, an input/...

Many national libraries are making efforts to crawl and store various born-digital information, there are many difficult problems of the social, legal and technical aspects. In this paper, from the view points of long-term preservation of digital contents, we focus on the the urgent task of storage system, since the size of the web archive is increasing exponentially. In order to archive monoto...

KEY FINDINGS Data from the National Vital Statistics System Mortality File. From 1999 through 2006, the number of fatal poisonings involving opioid analgesics more than tripled from 4,000 to 13,800 deaths. Opioid analgesics were involved in almost 40% of all poisoning deaths in 2006. In 2006, the rate of poisoning deaths involving opioid analgesics was higher for males, persons aged 35-54 years...

SmartScan is a metadata crawl tool that exploits patterns in metadata changes to significantly improve the efficiency of support for file-system-wide metadata querying, which is an important tool for administrators. In most environments, support for metadata queries is provided by databases populated and refreshed by calling stat() on every file in the file system. For large file systems, where...

OBJECTIVE To provide an overview of databases that are maintained by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and are of relevance to investigators involved in epidemiologic, clinical, and health services research. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS We reviewed both national and local VA databases and identified their strengths and limitations. We also referenced specific studies that have assessed t...

The list of motives by Kanin (1994) is the most cited list of motives to file a false allegation of rape. Kanin posited that complainants file a false allegation out of revenge, to produce an alibi or to get sympathy. A new list of motives is proposed in which gain is the predominant factor. In the proposed list, complainants file a false allegation out of material gain, emotional gain, or a di...

OBJECTIVE Develop the WVCR-Linked dataset by combining the West Virginia Cancer Registry (WVCR) with Medicare, Medicaid, and other data sources. Determine health care utilization, costs, and overall burden of four major cancers among the elderly in a rural and medically underserved state population, and to compare them with national estimates. METHOD We extracted personal identifiers from the...