In a wide-area shared computing environment such as the PlanetLab the available resource capacities at nodes can fluctuate significantly. A node selected based on its available resource capacities for executing a task may become unsuitable for it within a few minutes or hours timeframe. This motivates the need to find another node and relocate the task. In this paper we present a comparative ev...

INTRODUCTION Human influenza infection poses a serious public health threat in Cambodia, a country at risk for the emergence and spread of novel influenza viruses with pandemic potential. Prior pandemics demonstrated the adverse impact of influenza on poor communities in developing countries. Investigation of healthcare resource distribution can inform decisions regarding resource mobilization ...

With the fast development of video and voice network applications, CDN (Content Distribution Networks) and P2P (Peer-to-Peer) content distribution technologies have gradually matured. How to effectively use Internet resources thus has attracted more and more attentions. For the study of resource pricing, a whole pricing strategy containing pricing models, mechanisms and methods covers all the r...

This paper reviews the vital health care resource allocation in integrated systems and contrasts it with the market-based health care resource provisions. It is believed that among several alternatives a method of centrally managed needs-based resource distribution is best suited for universally appraised code of “equal treatment of equals”. However, the main problem hides in identification and...

Study of meronymy in a distribution-based lexical resource In this paper, we study the way meronymy behaves in a distribution-based lexical resource. We address the question of the evaluation of such resources through a semantic-based approach. Our method consists in collecting meronyms from a resource which we cross with a distributionbased lexical resource made from an encyclopedic corpus. Me...

We present here the results of our study to monitor and characterize the available resource capacities on PlanetLab nodes for scheduling and dynamic relocation of migratory tasks. The available resource capacities on PlanetLab nodes can fluctuate significantly in a short time, and a node selected to execute a task may become unsuitable for it within a short time ranging from a few minutes to an...

Hunting activities can affect game species in several ways; however, indirect effects of hunting on non-game species have received less attention than direct effects on game species, even though such potential effects could be crucial in some situations. There is ongoing concern that the critically endangered Florida panther Puma concolor coryi may be influenced by hunting activity, in terms of...

The paper introduces SVALex, a lexical resource primarily aimed at learners and teachers of Swedish as a foreign and second language that describes the distribution of 15,681 words and expressions across the Common European Framework of Reference (CEFR). The resource is based on a corpus of coursebook texts, and thus describes receptive vocabulary learners are exposed to during reading activiti...