In this work several aspects of ATLAS RPC offline monitoring and data quality assessment are illustrated with cosmics data selected by RPC trigger. These correspond to trigger selection, front-end mapping, detection efficiency and occupancy, which are studied in terms of low level quantities such as: RPC off-line hits and standalone tracks. The tools and techniques presented are also extended t...

A n important aspect of designing a distributed application is the communication model you use to connect its various components. Some middleware solutions, 1 such as Web services, 2 offer two of the most important communication paradigms: asynchronous messaging and remote procedure call (RPC). Message-oriented middleware (MOM) lets a ser-vice's consumers physically and temporally decou-ple fro...

This study investigated the effects of rumen-protected methionine (RPM) and rumen-protected choline (RPC) on energy balance, postpartum lactation performance, antioxidant capacity and immune response in transition dairy cows. Forty-eight multiparous transition cows were matched and divided into four groups: control, 15 g/d RPC, 15 g/d RPM or 15 g/d RPC + 15 g/d RPM. Diet samples were collected ...

Remote-procedure calls (RPCs) allow distributed, high-level language programs to communicate and synchronize in the usual manner via subprogram calls. One of the great challenges in RPC research is to preserve the traditiional call semantics despite the distribution and heterogeneity of the new environment. The main contribution of SUPRA-RPC is in addressing the passing of subprograms as RPC pa...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE PCMR, widely used for the evaluation of blood flow, has been adopted for the assessment of cerebrospinal fluid flow in a variety of disorders. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the accuracy and reproducibility of 2 fast PCMR techniques for measuring CSF flow. MATERIALS AND METHODS Velocities were calculated from RPC and CPC images of fluid flowing in a tube at a...

A 120-d finishing study utilizing 318 heifers (342 kg initial BW) was conducted to examine effects of ruminally protected choline (RPC) in diets containing graded concentrations of tallow. Heifers were blocked according to previous nutrition (full-fed or limit-fed) and allotted to 24 pens containing 11 to 15 heifers. Two pens, one within each block, were assigned to each of 12 factorially arran...

A novel method for robust estimation, called Graph-Cut RANSAC1, GC-RANSAC in short, is introduced. To separate inliers and outliers, it runs the graph-cut algorithm in the local optimization (LO) step which is applied when a sofar-the-best model is found. The proposed LO step is conceptually simple, easy to implement, globally optimal and efficient. GC-RANSAC is shown experimentally, both on sy...