As the number of cores and functionalities integrated in embedded devices increases, the amount of memory used on these devices also increases, justifying the development of memory architectures presenting scalability, low energy consumption and low latency. To implement memory solutions, most works adopting NoC-based MPSoCs only employ basic communication services, such as send/receive, withou...

BACKGROUND Encephalitis continues to result in substantial morbidity and mortality worldwide. Advances in diagnosis and management have been limited, in part, by a lack of consensus on case definitions, standardized diagnostic approaches, and priorities for research. METHODS In March 2012, the International Encephalitis Consortium, a committee begun in 2010 with members worldwide, held a meet...

We present one part of the results of an international survey exploring current and future nursing informatics (NI) research trends. The study was conducted by the International Medical Informatics Association Nursing Informatics Special Interest Group (IMIA-NISIG) Student Working Group. Based on findings from this cross-sectional study, we identified future NI research priorities. We used snow...

The Delphi Method of group communication was used with experienced distance education stakeholders in the United States from the areas of research, policy, and practice to identify priorities in K–12 distance education over the next five years. Data from the three rounds of this study were organized and compared using descriptive statistics. The results of the analyses by statement and by subsc...

In this paper, we consider a multicore real-time scheduling algorithm incorporating benefits of both fixed-priority and dynamic-priority disciplines. Specifically, the algorithm first assigns globally-effective priorities to real-time tasks statically, based on the well-known Rate-Monotonic scheduling policy. It may however change the task priorities at runtime, only when the tasks reach the ze...