background and objectives: for further confirmation of the previous in-house real-time pcr and cyp 141 target as a rapid and cheap diagnostic technique and a new target for direct detection of mycobacterium tuberculosis , we evaluated and compared the results of smear, culture and real-time pcr in sputa that were collected from 2 health centers. moreover we tried to evaluate the diagnostic accu...

Mechatronic systems often require hard real-time behaviour of the controlling system. The standard solution for this kind of application is based on the timetriggered approach, and for certain circumstances the schedulability is provable. In contrast to this, the approach in this paper introduces some hardware enhancements that allow first to substitute the timetriggered system by an event-trig...

Data in hard real-time databases has not only to be logically consistent but has also to be fresh enough in order to be used as an acceptable approximation of associated real-world values. Such external consistency can be achieved, if we use transactions to repeatedly generate new values before the previous ones get out of date. A so-called age constraint is imposed on these transactions. While...

In real-time systems, there exists a trade-off between schedulability and reliability. Most of the existing faulttolerant scheduling algorithms for real-time systems tend to favor schedulability over reliability. This may not be desirable when tasks have wide-varying utility values. This motivated the need for performance-oriented reliability measures, such as performance index, which inherentl...

We introduce a distantly supervised event extraction approach that extracts complex event templates from microblogs. We show that this near real-time data source is more challenging than news because it contains information that is both approximate (e.g., with values that are close but different from the gold truth) and ambiguous (due to the brevity of the texts), impacting both the evaluation ...