This paper described the design and implementation of G-BLAST – a Grid Service for one of the most widely used bioinformatics application Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST). G-BLAST uses the factory design pattern to provide application developers a common interface to incorporate multiple implementations of BLAST. The process of application selection, resource selection, scheduling, and...

1 of 2 DESCRIPTION A 16-year-old male suicide bomber committed suicide with grenade exploding in his hands. On scene, the patient was found unconscious with bilateral amputations above wrist, was blind from both eyes and had denudation of subcutaneous tissue of the anterior thoracic wall probably from shrapnel. He had Glascow coma scale 6, he was dyspnoeic, cyanotic, hypoxic (oxygen saturation ...

Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) systems have been extensively studied in context of wireless communication system, which promising the both increased capacity and link level reliability. In this paper we will present an analysis of the Vertical Bell Laboratories Layered Space-Time (V-BLAST) system at high signalto noise ratio (SNR) region using BPSK, QPSK and 16-QAM modulation technique b...

Blast-associated sensory and cognitive trauma sustained by military service members is an area of extensively studied research. Recent studies in our laboratory have revealed that low-level blast exposure increased expression of transient receptor potential vanilloid 1 (TRPV1) and endothelin-1 (ET-1), proteins well characterized for their role in mediating pain transmission, in the cornea. Dete...

High-pressure blast waves can cause extensive CNS injury in human beings. However, in combat settings, such as Iraq and Afghanistan, lower level exposures associated with mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) or subclinical exposure have been much more common. Yet controversy exists concerning what traits can be attributed to low-level blast, in large part due to the difficulty of distinguishing b...

BLAST is a tool for finding biologically similar sequences to given query sequences in annotated sequence database. Since the number of sequences in the database increases at exponential rate, and the number of users drastically increases, the performance of BLAST is a primary concern to service sites like NCBI. NCBI developed a parallel BLAST for the speedup of BLAST using threads on SMP machi...

suppression. The lymphoblasts of children were more sensitive to MTX than were the lymphoblasts of adults. When patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia were put into remission and maintained with MTX, there was a correlation between sensitivity to MTX in vitro and length of remission. There was also a correlation between in vitro effect of MTX and duration of survival, and the correlation wa...

Temporal analyses of the prompt gamma-ray and X-ray light curves of gamma-ray bursts reveal a tendency for the burst pulse time scales to increase with decreasing energy. For an ensemble of BATSE bursts, Fenimore et al. (1995) show that the energy dependence of burst peak durations can be represented by ∆t ∝ E−γ with γ ≃ 0.4– 0.45. This power-law dependence has led to the suggestion that this e...

  Purpose: In recent years high explosive bomb attacks have been increasingly directed against   civil structures by various terrorist organizations. This paper describes a numerical method for   assessing the interaction of high explosive air blast within the complex geometrical type of a   congested urban environment.   Materials and Methods: The first step in predicting blast effects on a ta...

We have developed a software called pp-Blast that uses the publicly available Blast package and PVM (parallel virtual machine) to partition a multi-sequence query across a set of nodes with replicated or shared databases. Benchmark tests show that pp-Blast running in a cluster of 14 PCs outperformed conventional Blast running in large servers. In addition, using pp-Blast and the cluster we were...