......Almost with inexorable momentum, the Internet hurls itself into new territory. Some time ago, more than two billion humans had adopted at least one Internet-enabled device in some form, and nobody doubts that another two billion will accrue soon. New webpages increasingly find ways to inform readers, as more information in a variety of formats continues to be layered on the basic system o...

Apache Pig allows users to describe dataflows to be executed in Apache Hadoop. The distributed nature of Hadoop, as well as its execution paradigms, provide many execution opportunities as well as impose constraints on the system. Given these opportunities and constraints Pig must make decisions about how to optimize the execution of user scripts. This paper covers some of those optimization ch...

Apache Spark is an execution engine that besides working as an isolated distributed, in-memory computing engine also offers close integration with Hadoop’s distributed file system (HDFS). Apache Spark's underlying appeal is in providing a unified framework to create sophisticated applications involving workloads. It unifies multiple workloads, handles unstructured data very well and has easy-to...

PURPOSE Critical illnesses are assessed according to the sequential organ failure assessment (SOFA) and acute physiology and chronic health evaluation (APACHE) II. Circulating ischemia-modified albumin (IMA) is a biomarker generated under ischemic and oxidative conditions and may reflect disease severity in preoperative patients. This study investigated the correlations of IMA with SOFA and APA...

From 2010 to 2013, the White Mountain Apache Tribe and the University of Arizona, with funding from the National Science Foundation, hosted the Western Apache Ethnography and Geographic Information Science Research Experience for Undergraduates. Designed to foster practical skills and scholarly capacities for future resource managers and anthropologists, this field school introduced Apache and ...

INTRODUCTION The performance of N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) and C-reactive protein (CRP) to predict clinical outcomes in ICU patients is unimpressive. We aimed to assess the prognostic value of NT-proBNP, CRP or the combination of both in unselected medical ICU patients. METHODS A total of 576 consecutive patients were screened for eligibility and followed up during t...