background:  little is known about trends and predictors of hardware related infection following open reduction and internal fixation (orif) of extremity fractures, one of the major causes of failure following orif. the present study was designed and conducted to determine trends and predictors of infection-related hardware removal following orif of extremities using a nationally representative...

for many years, researchers have studied high accuracy methods for recognizing the handwriting and achieved many significant improvements. however, an issue that has rarely been studied is the speed of these methods. considering the computer hardware limitations, it is necessary for these methods to run in high speed. one of the methods to increase the processing speed is to use the computer pa...

Initially, virtual machine (VM) meant a software abstraction with the looks of a computer system’s hardware. Now, VM can be seen as a layered abstraction over various places in the system including following levels of virtualization: hardware–level, operating system–level, and high–level language VMs. Hardware–level approach was the first attempt to implement virtualization. Several hardware VM...

This paper examines how the design of imaging hardware for multi-view 3D reconstruction affects the performance and complexity of the computer vision system as a whole. We examine two such systems: a grape vine pruning robot (a 4.5 year/20 man-year project), and a breast cancer screening device (a 10 year/25 man-year project). In both cases, mistakes in the initial imaging hardware design great...

In the keynote, I will give some examples of how computer architecture has strongly evolved in the past decennia and how this influences the performance, and therefore the design, of algorithms and data structure for data management. One the one hand, these changes in hardware architecture have caused the (continuing) need for new data management research. i.e. hardware-conscious database resea...

SOFTWARE POWER ANALYSIS AND OPTIMIZATION FOR POWER-AWAREMULTICORE SYSTEMSbySHINANWANGMay 2014 Advisor: Dr. Weisong ShiMajor: Computer ScienceDegree: Doctor of Philosophy Among all the factors in sustainable computing, power dissipation and energy consump-tion, arguably speaking, are fundamental aspects of modern computer systems. Different fromperformance metric,...

There is an inherent tension between two basic aspects of computer design: standardized ISAs that allow portable (and enduring) software to be used in a wide variety of systems, and innovative ISAs that can take best advantage of ever-evolving silicon technologies. This tension originates from the ultimate objective of computer architects: efficient computer system designs that (1) support expa...

A major impediment to developing real-time computer vision systems has been the computational power and level of skill required to process video streams in real-time. This has meant that many researchers have either analysed video streams off-line or used expensive dedicated hardware acceleration techniques. Recent software and hardware developments have greatly eased the development burden of ...

A core curriculum computer architecture course is designed with a significant hardware component. The course builds upon prior student coursework in logic design and organization, revisiting some of this material from a fresh perspective as it builds toward simulation-based presentation of central architecture topics. The course introduces an inexpensive, take-home lab kit, which students use f...

While many computer engineering curric-ula contain signiicant design projects encompassing either hardware or software, most do not integrate these experiences, are short-term in nature, lack exposure to industrial design tools, do not have hands-on experience, or lack continuity. URI's new ICED undergraduate curriculum addresses these issues through a comprehensive multi-year project. The proj...