We describe our experience designing, implementing, and evaluating two generations of high performance communication libraries, Fast Messages (FM) for Myrinet. In FM 1, we designed a simple interface and provided guarantees of reliable and in-order delivery, and ow control. While this was a signiicant improvement over previous systems, it was not enough. Layering MPI atop FM 1 showed that only ...

Chronic widespread pain, the cardinal symptom of fibromyalgia (FM), is common in the general population, with comparable prevalence rates of 7.3% to 12.9% across different countries. The prevalence of FM in the general population was reported to range from 0.5% to 5% and up to 15.7% in the clinic. The common association of FM with other rheumatic disorders, chronic viral infections, and systemi...

Following increases in national demands on healthcare facilities and services, healthcare facilities management (FM) has gradually matured to become an established research and development topic. This paper reviews the state of the art in the main domains related to healthcare FM and defines the central themes in the development of a healthcare FM model. FM, maintenance management and performan...

BACKGROUND Use of personal frequency-modulated (FM) systems significantly improves speech recognition in noise for users of cochlear implants (CIs). Previous studies have shown that the most appropriate gain setting on the FM receiver may vary based on the listening situation and the manufacturer of the CI system. Unlike traditional FM systems with fixed-gain settings, Dynamic FM automatically ...

We extended McMillan's Green's function method to study the equilibrium spin current (ESC) in a ferromagnet/ferromagnet (FM/FM) tunnelling junction , in which the magnetic moments in both FM electrodes are not collinear. The single-electron Green's function of the junction system is directly constructed from the elements of the scattering matrix which can be obtained by matching wavefunctions a...

Abstract Objective The Fugl-Meyer motor scale (FM) is a well-validated measure for assessing upper extremity and lower functions in people with stroke. FM contains numerous items (50), which reduces its clinical usability. purpose of this study was to develop short form the stroke using machine-learning methodology (FM-ML) compare efficiency (ie, number items) psychometric properties FM-ML thos...

Abstract. Let Fm be a free group of a finite rank m ≥ 2 and Xi, Yj be elements in Fm. A nonempty word w(x1, . . . , xn) is called a C-test word in n letters for Fm if, whenever w(X1, . . . ,Xn) = w(Y1, . . . , Yn) 6= 1, the two n-tuples (X1, . . . , Xn) and (Y1, . . . , Yn) are conjugate in Fm. In this paper we construct, for each n ≥ 2, a C-test word vn(x1, . . . , xn) with the additional prop...

Fibromyalgia (FM) is a chronic disorder characterized by widespread pain and other associated symptoms including fatigue, insomnia, cognitive/memory problems, and even psychological distress. Duloxetine is one of three FDA approved medications (the other two being milnacipran and pregabalin) for the treatment of FM. It has been demonstrated that FM patients possess low central nervous system le...

BACKGROUND There is evidence for augmented processing of pain and impaired endogenous pain inhibition in Fibromyalgia syndrome (FM). In order to fully understand the mechanisms involved in FM pathology, there is a need for closer investigation of endogenous pain modulation. In the present study, we compared the functional connectivity of the descending pain inhibitory network in age-matched FM ...

OBJECTIVES Sleep disturbance is a common experience in fibromyalgia (FM). The field lacks a sleep specific patient reported outcome (PRO) measure developed and validated in a FM population. The study objective is to gain an in-depth understanding of sleep in FM and to develop a PRO measure of it. METHODS Research involved the following stages: 1) A literature review conducted to identify key ...