The spatial structure and temporal evolution of a nondiffusive hot spot is examined in a confined, planar enclosure. The situation is modelled by the reactive Euler equations and single-step Arrhenius kinetics with a large (scaled) activation temperature 1/ . The initial state of the medium is taken to be one of uniform pressure but with a prescribed thermal gradient of order across the domain....

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES In the albumin-to-creatinine ratio (spot-ACR), urine creatinine corrects for tonicity but also reflects muscle mass. Low muscle mass is associated with cardiovascular disease (CVD). We hypothesized that the spot-ACR would be higher in women, lower-weight persons, and older individuals, independent of timed urine albumin excretion (24hr-UAE), and accordingly, that spot-...

Background and Purpose—The presence of active contrast extravasation (the spot sign) on computed tomography (CT) angiography has been recognized as a predictor of hematoma expansion in patients with intracerebral hemorrhage. We aim to systematically characterize the spot sign to identify features that are most predictive of hematoma expansion and construct a spot sign scoring system. Methods—We...

MapReduce is a scalable and fault tolerant framework, patented by Google, for computing embarrassingly parallel reductions. Hadoop is an open-source implementation of Google MapReduce that is made available as a web service to cloud users by the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud computing infrastructure. Amazon Spot Instances (SIs) provide an inexpensive yet transient and market-based option to p...

Since the mid 70’s different starspot modelling techniques have been used to describe the observed spot variability on active stars. Spot positions and temperatures are calculated by application of surface integration techniques or solution of analytic equations on observed photometric data.Artificial spotted light curves were generated, by use of the analytic expressions of Budding (1977), to ...

The spot images from DNA microarray highly affect the discovery of biological knowledge from gene expression data. However, results from quality analysis, normalization, differential expression, and cluster analysis are rarely validated with spot images in current data analysis methods or software packages. We designed RealSpot, a software package, to validate the results by directly associatin...

In the current paper, we examine the effect of a B2B spot market on the strategic behavior and the performance of a reseller who continues to use the traditional channel while participating in a B2B spot market. We analyze the case in which a risk-neutral reseller faces an additive or multiplicative demand function and identify sufficient conditions under which the optimal order quantity and re...

I. MOTIVATION Recently, we have witnessed that many emerging high performance computing (HPC) or scientific computing applications are developed and hosted in the cloud. As those applications are usually long running jobs and are costly in the cloud, monetary cost [11], [7] and performance [3], [2] are important optimization factors. Message Passing Interface (MPI) is the key programming paradi...

6 Developing Functional Programs 2 6.1 Chapter Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 6.2 Developing a Cosequential Processing Family . . . . . . . . . . . 2 6.2.1 Function generalization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 6.2.2 Scope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 6.2.3 Frozen spots . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 ...

alpha toxin derived from clostridium perfringens was used for diagnosis of streptococcus agalactiae (st.agalactiae) by rapid and spot camp tests. the selected cl.perfringens strain was cultured in optimized conditions; the supernatant of culture was concentrated by ultra filter and purified by deae cellulose chromatography. the efficacy of both purified and crude α-toxins were examined by rapid...