Nursing informatics competencies (NIC) refer to the knowledge and skills needed to effectively use technological resources to provide effective care using health care technology (TIGER, 2006). NICs are crucial in providing patient-centred care in healthcare, an industry that uses different technology to support clinical activities, for example, electronic health records (EHR). This study will p...

We present and evaluate a NIC-based network intrusion detection system. Functions such as signature-based and anomaly-based packet classification are performed on the NIC, which has its own processor and memory. This makes the system virtually impossible to bypass or tamper with as can be the case with software-based systems that rely on the host operating system to function. We empirically eva...

A nefropatia induzida pelo contraste (NIC) tem figurado como um diagnóstico cada vez mais frequente no campo da cardiologia intervencionista. Tal fato deve-se ao aumento progressivo no uso de meios de contraste iodados em procedimentos diagnósticos e terapêuticos cardiovasculares, à abordagem de pacientes portadores de múltiplas comorbidades, além de cenários clínicos e angiográficos cada vez m...

This paper investigates the protocol overhead pipelining between the host and network interface card (NIC). Existing researches into the protocol overhead pipelining assume that protocol overheads in the host and NIC can be naturally pipelined. Our architecture-aware investigation, however, finds a new fact that the host and NIC compete against each other to access the host memory, system bus, ...

Executive Summary This paper presents NIC and iSCSI performance results comparing Chelsio’s T580-CR and Intel’s latest XL710 “Fortville” server adapter running at 40Gbps. The results demonstrate that Chelsio’s NIC provides consistently superior results, lower CPU utilization, higher throughput and drastically lower latency, with outstanding small I/O performance. The T580 notably delivers line ...

This seminar series was sponsored by the National Intelligence Council (NIC) and the Bureau of Intelligence and Research of the US Department of State. The NIC routinely sponsors unclassified conferences with outside experts to gain knowledge and insight and to sharpen the level of analysis and debate on critical issues. The views expressed are those of individuals and do not represent official...

Monitoring electromagnetic waves in the Ultra Low Frequency (ULF) range between 1 mHz and 1 Hz is essential for an understanding of the processes in the earths magnetosphere. Also earthquake prone areas are under suspect to emit precursor ULF signals. We discuss a receiving system using a solenoid sensor and Negative Impedance Converter (NIC) as front end. The NIC effectively extends the freque...

Freuder and Elfe (1996) introduced Neighborhood Inverse Consistency (NIC) for binary CSPs. In this paper, we introduce RNIC, the extension of NIC to nonbinary CSPs, and describe a practical algorithm for enforcing it. We propose an adaptive strategy to weaken or strengthen this property based on the connectivity of the network. We demonstrate the effectiveness of RNIC as a full lookahead strate...

High-bandwidth TCP/IP networking is a core component of current and future computer systems. Though networking is central to computing today, the vast majority of end-host networking research focuses on the current paradigm of the network interface being merely a peripheral device. Most optimizations focus solely on software changes or on moving some of the computation from the primary CPU to t...

The Notch signal transduction pathway is a highly conserved regulatory system that controls multiple developmental processes. We have established an erythroleukemia cell model to study how Notch regulates cell fate and erythroleukemic cell differentiation. K562 and HEL cells expressed the Notch-1 receptor and the Notch ligand Jagged-1. The stable expression of the constitutively active intracel...