This research investigates the implementation mechanism of block-wise ILU(k) preconditioner on GPU. The block-wise ILU(k) algorithm requires both the level k and the block size to be designed as variables. A decoupled ILU(k) algorithm consists of a symbolic phase and a factorization phase. In the symbolic phase, a ILU(k) nonzero pattern is established from the point-wise structure extracted fro...

Question answering (QA) on table data, which contains densely packed information in two-dimensional form, is a challenging information retrieval task. Data can be placed at a distance from the metadata describing it. The metadata itself can be difficult to identify given the layout of a particular table. This paper describes a QA system for tables created with both machine learning and heuristi...

As more systems rely on knowledge bases built from automatic and semi-automatic methods, it is becoming more important to provide solutions that not only answer questions but also provide information describing how the answers were obtained. We aim to make answers more useful that rely on the combination of knowledge bases, some of which may have been built as the result of extraction processes...

Antigenic relationship between purified equine infectious anemia (EIA) virus and spleen-derived antigen from EIA-infected horses was examined by immunodiffusion. Identical antigenicity of these two antigens has been proven because precipitation lines formed between the two antigens and EIA antiserum connected with each other. The results indicate that the antigenic substance derived from infect...

1. Ethylenediamine tetraacetic acid (EDTA) in low concentrations imitates all the known effects of the relaxation factor ("Marsh factor"). In extracted muscle fibers which have contracted in a solution containing adenosinetriphosphate (ATP), the addition of EBTA causes relaxation, the subsequent addition of CaCl(2), contraction. 2. In fibers which have been briefly immersed in 5 MM EDTA, ATP ca...

After publishing results of a study that revealed diarrheagenic and emetic activity in 4-5-day old mice infected with Kudoa septempunctata (K. septempunctata) spores, the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported 11 events of "Kudoa food poisoning" in 2015. The epidemiological design of the previous study was descriptive rather than analytical; therefore, this study aimed to fur...

Source code repositories best support program comprehension tasks when they can successfully answer the many questions a maintainer conceives. To provide the flexibility needed to answer these questions, the Jupiter repository system has been developed. Jupiter, using Maia, a Model based on Annotations, Indices and Attributes, can store any of the syntactic, type and flow information extractabl...

BRIGGS, ARTHUR H., AND SUZANNE MELVIN. Ion movements in isolated rabbit aortic stri@. Am. J. Physiol. 201(2): 365-368. I 961 .-Ca45, K42, and Na24 exchanges were compared with tension changes induced by epinephrine (I .5 X IO-~ M) and by lowering the extracellular sodium concentration (Na)o in normal and glycerol-extracted isolated spiral strips of rabbit aortas. Contractions induced by epineph...

Introduction: The purpose of this in-vitro study was to compare shaping ability of NiTi rotary Mtwo and FlexMaster with stainless steel hand K-Flexofile in curved root canals of extracted teeth. Materials and Methods: Mesiobuccal canals of 45 mandibular molar teeth were balanced into three groups of 15 each, with respect to the Schneider angle, canal access angle, height, dis-tance and radiu...