There has been a growing interest in large-scale sharedmemory multiprocessors that support a wide range of application workloads. The architectural trend of such systems has been towards a distributed architecture, where processors, memory modules, and I/O modules are distributed throughout the machine, connected by some form of interconnect (rings, meshes, trees). Examples include the Stanford...

Given that manual annotation of speech is an expensive and long process, we attempt in this paper to assist an annotator to perform a speaker diarization. This assistance takes place in an annotation background for a large amount of archives. We propose a method which decreases the intervention number of a human. This method corrects a diarization by taking into account the human interventions....

In this work we present a study on the parallelization of code segments that are typical of clustering algorithms. In order to approach this problem from a practical point of view we have considered the parallelization on the three types of architectures currently available from parallel system manufacturers: vector computers, shared memory multiprocessors and distributed memory multicomputers....

Herbicides that inhibit hydroxyphenylpyruvate dioxygenase (HPPD) such as mesotrione are widely used to control a broad spectrum of weeds in agriculture. Amaranthus palmeri is an economically troublesome weed throughout the United States. The first case of evolution of resistance to HPPD-inhibiting herbicides in A. palmeri was documented in Kansas (KS) and later in Nebraska (NE). The objective o...

BACKGROUND Speech disturbance is a common symptom of stroke and is important as a prompt identifier of the event. The frequency of the symptom among each stroke subtype, differences between patients with and without speech disturbance and its correlation to early mortality remain unclear. METHODS The Kyoto prefecture of Japan has established a registry to enroll new stroke patients in coopera...

A linear superposition method was used for modeling the time history of the production blast vibrations and optimizing the blast sequence to reduce vibration levels in Sar-Cheshmeh copper mine, Kerman, Iran. A single-hole blast for modeling and two double-hole blasts with time delays of 25 and 65 ms between two holes for modeling validation were carried out. The generated vibrations were measur...

It is known that livestock animal semen very sensitive to cold shock during freezing processes, and this sensitivity directly affects post-thaw progressive motility, mitochondrial membrane potential, sperm nuclear DNA integrity in vitro spermatological parameters such as plasma acrosome integrity, fertility. In addition, with the sudden decrease total antioxidant level of after thawing, cells a...

A greedy randomized adaptive search procedure for maximum independent set. A greedy randomized adaptive search procedure for the quadratic assignment problem. subroutines for approximate solution of dense quadratic assignment problems using GRASP. Table 2: grasp-parallel-sparse empty permutation, and local search is applied to the constructed solution for further improvement. The best solution ...

The reduced number of animals in most wild felid populations implies a loss of genetic diversity. The death of juveniles, prior to the production of mature sperm, represents a loss of potential genetic contribution to future populations. Since 2011 mouse testicular organ culture has introduced an alternative mechanism to produce sperm in vitro from immature tissue. However, extension of this te...