The newly defined MPEG-4 Advanced Simple (AS) profile delivers single-layered streaming video in digital television (DTV) quality in the promising 1–2 Mbit/s range. However, the coding tools involved add significantly to the complexity of the decoding process, raising the need for further hardware acceleration. A programmable multicore system-on-chip (SOC) architecture is presented which target...

A new urea-containing metal-organic framework (MOF) was synthesized to act as a heterogeneous catalyst. Ureas are well-known for self-recognition and aggregation behavior, resulting in loss of catalytic competency. The catalyst spatial isolation achievable in a porous MOF environment suggests a potentially general solution. The combination of a symmetrical urea tetracarboxylate strut, 4,4'-bipy...

This study aims to determine student satisfaction with administrative services at Madrasah Aliyah Negeri 2 Halmahera Utara and find out the performance of staff North Halmahera. type research is field (field research) approach used ex post facto classified as quantitative. The instruments in this were questionnaires documentation be analyzed using statistical techniques correlational regression...

– Networked computing resources can be harnessed to provide medium and large–scale computational services. Most systems to harness such resources rely on allocation heuristics and policies to perform the mapping of tasks onto hosts. Such heuristics are typically statically designed and typically only the parameters that govern the heuristic can be adapted over time. This paper describes a novel...

– Existing networked workstations are becoming increasingly effective as non–dedicated computing clusters. Effective scheduling in such clusters requires knowledge of the availability of the workstations. A successful method for predicting workstation idle periods with statistical distributions is presented. The Weibull probability density function is shown to be useful in modeling workstation ...

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New tremorgenic mycotoxins named janthitrem A, B, and C (molecular weights 601, 585, and 569, respectively) were produced by more than half of 21 Penicillium janthinellum isolates obtained from ryegrass pastures involved in ryegrass staggers outbreaks in sheep.