IBM System z9 Integrated Information Processors (IBM zIIP) provide very attractive price / performance options for appropriate DB2 environments. They also add complexity to performance management and capacity planning. This paper will discuss sources of data that can be used to estimate the amount of current DB2 workload eligible for zIIP processors. Modeling techniques using that data will sho...

Background A symptom-based stratification tool using data from three European cohorts identified four clinical subtypes of pSS: Low symptom burden (LSB), high (HSB), dryness dominant with fatigue (DDF), and pain (PDF).[1] These have distinct molecular profiles, manifestations, responses to immunomodulatory therapies. Detailed knowledge the biological pathways underlying is vital understanding h...

The effect of inter-ply sliding was investigated for multi-ply Non-Crimp Fabric (NCF) preforms during the Double Diaphragm Forming (DDF) process. A Finite Element (FE) model employed to investigate influence ply layup sequence and coefficient friction between fabric-fabric fabric-diaphragm interfaces. Simulation results indicate that in-plane fibre compression, caused by dissimilar shear deform...

BACKGROUND Increased left atrial (LA) dimensions are known to be a risk factor in predicting cardiovascular events and mortality and to be one key diagnostic tool to assess diastolic dysfunction. Currently, LA measurements are usually conducted using 2D-echocardiography, although there are well-known limitations. Real-time 3D-echocardiography is able to overcome these limitations, furthermore b...

BACKGROUND Alexithymia is a disturbance associated with psychosomatic disorders, pain syndromes, and a variety of psychiatric disorders. The Affect School (AS) based on Tomkins Affect Theory is a therapy focusing on innate affects and their physiological expressions, feelings, emotions and scripts. In this pilot study we tried the AS-intervention method in patients with chronic benign pain. M...

The use of the directional distance function (DDF) in empirical studies has steadily increased over past decade due to its general representation a production technology. DDF is particularly useful health economics as tool for modeling hospital Choosing direction when technology with crucial, albeit not fully resolved, issue that important ramifications. We first address choice by using recentl...

Recently, isogeometric analysis (IGA), which unifies the computer-aided design (CAD) model and engineering (CAE) model, has been adopted to develop topology optimization (ITO) framework. However, a critical study on indispensability of IGA in take place conventional finite element method (FEM) is still lacking. In current work, two important problems are extensively discussed: (1) The lower num...

Open string boundary conditions for non-BPS D-branes in type II string theories discussed in hep-th/0505157 give rise to two sectors with integer (R sector) and half-integer (NS sector) modes for the combined fermionic matter and bosonic ghost variables in pure spinor formalism. Exploiting the manifest supersymmetry of the formalism we explicitly construct the DDF (Del Giuduce, Di Vecchia, Fubi...

A global-to-local modelling strategy is presented based on a sub-modelling approach to predict the formation of macroscale defects in bi-axial non-crimp fabric (NCF) during double diaphragm forming (DDF). full-scale global simulation initially performed using coarse membrane element mesh (5 mm edge length) locate areas containing potential defects. Refined local simulations are subsequently hig...