Our paper aims to answer the question: Can the macroeconomic condition be used to better allocate investments among different sectors of a market? Motivated by classical Markowitz portfolio theory, and prior work in attempting to incorporate exogenous economic factors in portfolio optimization [1][2][3][4], we explore three approaches to dynamically rebalance a portfolio as market or economic r...

Sleep-promoting neurons in the dorsal fan-shaped body (dFB) of Drosophila are integral to sleep homeostasis, but how these cells impose sleep on the organism is unknown. We report that dFB neurons communicate via inhibitory transmitters, including allatostatin-A (AstA), with interneurons connecting the superior arch with the ellipsoid body of the central complex. These "helicon cells" express t...

the Chinese authorities plan to gradually rebalance the composition of Chinese economic growth from investment towards household consumption. this article uses the World input-Output Database (WiOD) to give a general sense of how this rebalancing might affect Australian exports and economic activity. Dollar for dollar, Chinese investment appears to absorb more than twice as much Australian valu...

Increasing the tissue biomass and/or volume of the gastrointestinal tract (GIT) is commonly seen when animals feed on poor-quality diets. This increase can simply permit larger meal sizes, but may also rebalance nutritionally imbalanced ingesta by allowing selective absorption of limiting nutrients. In an insect herbivore, the migratory locust, a synthetic diet with a high ratio of protein to c...

Case presentation • Medical history included lymphoblastic lymphoma, morbid obesity (BMI 43), steatohepatitis, arterial hypertension, renal cysts, and laparoscopic cholecystectomy • Laboratory testing revealed significantly elevated transaminases (GOT 241 U/L, GPT 196 U/L) as well as increased total bilirubin serum levels (2.3 mg/dL), while retention parameters were within the normal range • In...

Asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and cystic fibrosis (CF) are all chronic pulmonary diseases, albeit with different etiologies, that are characterized by airflow limitation, chronic inflammation, and abnormal mucus production/rheology. Small synthetic molecule-based therapies are commonly prescribed for all three diseases. However, there has been increased interest in "biol...

Abstract In this paper, we develop a methodology to automatically classify claims using the information contained in text reports (redacted at their opening). From automatic analysis, aim is predict if claim expected be particularly severe or not. The difficulty rarity of such extreme database, and hence difficulty, for classical prediction techniques like logistic regression accurately outcome...

For power, cost, and pricing reasons, datacenters are evolving towards heterogeneous hardware. However, MapReduce implementations, which power a representative class of datacenter applications, were originally designed for homogeneous clusters and performed poorly on heterogeneous clusters. The natural solution, rebalancing load among the reducers running on heterogeneous nodes has been explore...