Microsoft’s Windows System Resource Manager (WSRM) is a workload management tool included with Windows Server 2003 Enterprise or Datacenter. Administrators can use WSRM to control how CPU and memory are shared among competing processes. WSRM is typically used to normalize consolidated workloads (reducing the risk that a misbehaving application will interfere with others on the system), or to en...

The cognitive workload of nurses needs to be protected from interruptions as much as possible to prevent untoward patient outcomes. In this study, the type and frequency of work interruptions for nurses in medical-surgical units in a midwestern tertiary care medical center were identified. In addition, nurses' travel patterns were observed and recorded as they provided care. The intent was to i...

Virtual Multicasting (VMC) is a specific instance of a more general idea, Information Mass Transit (IMT). IMT aims to reduce the waste of bandwidth resulting from individual streams of data, while improving user-level latency. By analogy with mass transit where shared transport reduces the load on infrastructure, IMT aims to use networks and other infrastructure more efficiently. VMC combines s...

Cloud computing is the cluster of autonomic computing, grid computing and utility computing. Cloud providers are there to rescue their customers from the problem of dynamism. The providers focus on resource sharing and in improving the performance. Energy consumption is the major factor to degrade the performance. Reducing energy sprawl will bloom the performance. This paper delineates the diff...

introduction: work pressure and excessive workload can jeopardize and impair the people’s health. one of these impairments is musculoskeletal disorders. among these disorders, low back pain is the most common and most costly problem. the purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between workload and prevalence of low back pain in assembly line workers of a car manufacturing fact...

The authors have developed a system for volumetric control of continuous haemodialysis. The article describes this system and reports its successful use in providing renal support in the intensive care unit to 10 patients with multiorgan failure. In addition to providing effective treatment of uraemia, it permits the precise control of fluid balance in a prospective manner ("dial-up" fluid bala...

Algorithms for performing predictive movements of the disk arm in anticipation of future requests, aimed at reducing the disk access time, are described in this paper. The prediction is based on the past history of the requested disk tracks . A continuum of optimization algorithms have been derived, featuring di erent prediction performance and, hence, di erent complexities. Trace driven simula...

Onset detection still has room for improvement, especially when dealing with polyphonic music signals. For certain purposes in which the correctness of the result is a must, user intervention is hence required to correct the mistakes performed by the detection algorithm. In such interactive paradigm, the exactitude of the detection can be guaranteed at the expense of user’s work, being the effo...