An often-overlooked challenge to the field of digital humanities is the lack of interest in the discipline by young scholars. Despite being the so-called digital natives, many of my museum studies students have no desire to engage with new technology. This short paper is a snapshot of my attempt to teach digital curation and online exhibit development within the framework of my material culture...

*System Devices Research Laboratories †NEC Electronics Corporation We propose several techniques of Asymmetric Multi-processing (AMP) for mobile application processors. In our AMP architecture, multiple general purpose processors are integrated on a chip to reduce hardware development period and cost. Our techniques are well considered the role of hardware and software to maximize the benefits ...

The Native POSIX Thread Library (NPTL) fully supports the Portable Operating System Inter face for Unix (POSIX) threads, which is one of the most popular interfaces for multithreading applications. This library has been gradually improved to meet the requirements of real time systems but currently fits only soft real time systems. This paper explains why the library fails to meet the requiremen...

We describe a method for developing a statistical language model (SLM) with high keyword spotting accuracy for a natural language interface (NLI). The NLI is based on the Adaptive Agent Oriented Software Architecture (AAOSA). Our experience shows that this method provides for rapid development of an SLM that is well suited to the requirements of the agent-oriented NLI. Experiment results show a...

RNA molecules take advantage of prevalent structural motifs to fold and assemble into well-defined 3D architectures. The A-minor junction is a class of RNA motifs that specifically controls coaxial stacking of helices in natural RNAs. A sensitive self-assembling supra-molecular system was used as an assay to compare several natural and previously unidentified A-minor junctions by native polyacr...

This article presents an asynchronous FPGA architecture for implementing cryptographic algorithms secured against physical cryptanalysis. We discuss the suitability of asynchronous reconfigurable architectures for such applications before proceeding to model the side channel and defining our objectives. The logic block architecture is presented in detail. We discuss several solutions for the in...

Genome editing driven by zinc-finger nucleases (ZFNs) yields high gene-modification efficiencies (>10%) by introducing a recombinogenic double-strand break into the targeted gene. The cleavage event is induced using two custom-designed ZFNs that heterodimerize upon binding DNA to form a catalytically active nuclease complex. Using the current ZFN architecture, however, cleavage-competent homodi...

The aim of the article is to summarize and compare approaches of design and architecture of native XML databases. We discuss our results accomplished by utilizing the INEX data set in two open source database systems eXist and Apache Xindice. There is also a basic performance comparison outlined as a basis for discussion about suitability for particular database system and for our consecutive e...

Our submissions (ML1, ML2, ML3) to the Audio Music Similarity (AMS) task are based upon learning an optimal distance metric over vector quantized MFCC histograms. ML1 is optimized to predict similarity derived from a collaborative filter; ML2 is optimized to predict genre similarity; ML3 is an unsupervised baseline which uses a native distance metric. This abstract details the system architectu...