In the nano-scale era, Network-on-Chip (NoC) interconnection paradigm has gained importance to abide by communication challenges in Chip Multi-Processors (CMPs). With increased integration density on CMPs, NoC components namely cores, routers, and links are susceptible failures. Therefore, improve system reliability, there is a need for efficient fault-tolerant techniques that mitigate permanen...

The zebra guidewire is widely used in endoscopic surgery. Because of its central mental core, it is not easy to break or shear off within the urinary tract. We report a case about the breakage of zebra guidewire in ureteroscopy (URS) with Holmium: YAG laser lithotripsy. It is easily to be managed by percutaneous access or open surgery. For the purpose of minimal invasiveness and risk, we perfor...

Based on several new technologies, such as ubiquitous computing, ontology engineering, semantic web and grid computing, this paper proposed a flexible educational architecture for e-learning, which is called OntoEdu. The core of OntoEdu is educational ontology. It is divided into five parts: user adaptation, automatic composition, education ontology, service model and content model. At the mean...

Implementing realistic scientific applications on parallel platforms requires a high–level, problem–adequate and flexible programming environment. The hybrid system PROMOTER pursues a two–level approach allowing easy and flexible programming at both language and library levels. The core concept of PROMOTER’s language model is its highly abstract and unified concept of data and communication str...

Based on several new technologies, such as ubiquitous computing, ontology engineering, semantic web and grid computing, this paper proposes a kind of flexible educational platform architecture for e-learning, which is called OntoEdu. It is composed of five parts: user adaptation, automatic composition, education ontology, service module and content module, among which educational ontology is th...

In models with complete markets, targeting core inflation enables monetary policy to maximize welfare by replicating the flexible price equilibrium. We develop a two-sector new-Keynesian model to evaluate different inflation targeting rules in economies with financial frictions. We conclude that, in the presence of financial frictions, a welfaremaximizing central bank should adopt flexible head...