SAS users are always interested in learning techniques related to improving data access. One way of improving information retrieval from a SAS data set or table is to create and use an index. An index consists of one or more columns that are used to uniquely identify each row within a table. Functioning as a SAS object containing the values in one or more columns in a table, an index may be def...

In this study, we use proprietary data from a retail organization to examine whether subjective ratings by supervisors exhibit patterns reflective of a “Halo effect” and the extent to which this Halo effect is affected by information gathering costs or efforts to preserve personal relationships and avoid conflict. We find evidence consistent with prior experimental research that subjective rati...

We participated in the PR-SOCO task hosted in FIRE 2016 and tried some basic approaches which we look to improve in the future. We defined some simple features from the source code which, in our opinion, were indicative of the manner in which the code was written and which might give some clues about the personality of the programmer. We built a multiple linear regression model from the trainin...

OBJECTIVE/HYPOTHESIS Simulation models can help develop procedural skills outside the clinical setting while also providing a means for evaluation of trainees. Objective Structured Assessment of Technical Skills (OSATS) have been developed for several procedures. The purpose of this study was to demonstrate the construct validity of an OSATS for microvascular anastomosis performed on a simulati...

The reported study was conducted to compare and contrast current manufacturing practices between two countries, Australia and Malaysia, and identify the practices that significantly influence their manufacturing performances. The results are based on data collected from surveys using a standard questionnaire in both countries. Evidence indicates that product quality and reliability is the main ...

Sequence comparison, a vital research tool in computational biology, is based on a simple O(n) algorithm that easily maps to a linear array of processors. This paper reviews and compares high-performance sequence analysis on general-purpose supercomputers and single-purpose, recon gurable, and programmable co-processors. The di culty of comparing hardware from published performance gures is als...

RESUMO 1Full Professor, School of Dentistry, Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná, Curitiba,Brazil. 2Doctor Professor, Endodontics, Department of Operative Dentistry, Bauru Dental School, University of São Paulo. 3Full Professor, School of Dentistry, Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil. Corresponding address: Vânia Portela Ditzel Westphalen Rua Pasteur, 486, ap 401 Cu...

The emergence of virtualization enabled hardware, such as the latest generation AMD and Intel processors, has raised significant interest in High Performance Computing (HPC) community. In particular, system-level virtualization provides an opportunity to advance the design and development of operating systems, programming environments, administration practices, and resource management tools. Th...

1Full Professor, Department of Dental Materials and Prosthodontics, Araraquara Dental School, UNESP Univ. Estadual Paulista , Araraquara, SP, Brazil. 2Associate Professor, Department of Dental Materials and Prosthodontics, Araraquara Dental School, UNESP Univ. Estadual Paulista, Araraquara, SP, Brazil. 3Former graduate student, Department of Dental Materials and Prosthodontics, Araraquara Denta...