Digital signal processing (DSP) technology is the core of many modern application areas. Computer vision, data compression, speech recognition and synthesis, digital audio and cameras, are a few of the many fields where DSP technology is essential. Although Moore’s law continues to hold in the semiconductor industry, the computational demands of modern DSP algorithms outstrip the available comp...

Many pathways in fungi are regulated in part by protein phosphorylation, but there are only a few studies that characterize fungal phosphoproteomes. Willger et al. (p. 474 – 485) have analyzed the phosphoproteome of the human fungal pathogen Candida albicans in its filamentous form. More than 15,906 phosphorylation sites on 2,896 proteins were identified. GO term enrichment analysis of proteins...

On March 21, 1983, the program committee for the 9th Symposium on Operating System Principles, having read the eighty-three papers submitted, selected sixteen for presentation at the symposium. This acceptance ratio of about one in five approximates those of past SOSPs, although the number of submissions was somewhat lower than in recent years. Several members of the program committee found it ...

If you only have time to read 1 article this month in Canadian Family Physician (CFP), I would recommend Dr Jeff Sutherland’s piece entitled “Physician-assisted suicide from a patient’s perspective,” which appears on page 115.1 Dr Sutherland, who has had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis for the past 8 years, talks frankly about his life and his choices, and how they have changed. And he talks abou...

One of the many techniques which has recently been employed for filtering spam is one described in the Linux Journal article A Statistical Approach to the Spam Problem [Robinson]. This technique incorporates ideas from the seminal article A Plan For Spam [Graham] as well as R.A. Fisher's technique for combining p-values by means of the chi-square distribution [Hedges & Olkin]. The technique pre...

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the commonest sustained arrhythmia globally and results in significantly increased morbidity and mortality including a fivefold risk of stroke. Paroxysmal atrial fibrillation (PAF) constitutes approximately half of all AF cases and is thought to represent an early stage of the disease. This intermittent form of atrial arrhythmia can be a challenge to identify and as ...

ABSTARCT Hallervorden-Spatz disease (HSD) is a rare disorder characterized by progressive motor dysfunction and dementia. Dystonia is the most prominent and disabling symptom responding only to a modest extent to pharmacological therapy. At the moment only a few cases have been reported to improve dystonia and even fewer to resolve status dystonicus for a longer period in children. The authors ...

Several characteristics of classical Lorenz curves make them unsuitable for the study of a group of top-performers. TOP-curves, defined as a kind of mirror image of TIP-curves used in poverty studies, are shown to possess the properties necessary for adequate empirical ranking of various data arrays, based on the properties of the highest performers (the core). TOP-curves and essential TOP-curv...

Hybridity has become a master trope across many spheres of cultural research, theory, and criticism, and one of the most widely used and criticized concepts in postcolonial theory. This article begins with a thorough review of the interdisciplinary scholarship on hybridity. Then it revisits the trope of hybridity in the context of a series of articles on cultural globalization published in the ...