This paper addresses the design of a Reprogrammable Combinatorial Processor (RCP) on the basis of reconfigurable circuits such as FPGA. The RCP is intended to be used for solving different combinatorial problems formulated over discrete matrices. From a structural point of view the RCP is a composition of a Reconfigurable Control Unit (RCU) and a Reconfigurable Function Unit (RFU). Each unit co...

18 The formation and rapid drainage of supraglacial lakes (SGL) influences the mass balance and 19 dynamics of the Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS). Although SGLs are expected to spread inland 20 during the 21 century due to atmospheric warming, less is known about their future spatial 21 distribution and volume. We use GrIS surface elevation model and regional climate model 22 outputs to show that a...

OBJECTIVE Asthma control has not been formally evaluated in the Caribbean. This study evaluated disease control on The Asthma Control Test (ACT), The Royal College of Physicians "Three questions" for Assessing Asthma Control (RCP), peak expiratory flow rate (PEFR) and patients' self-assessment of control. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Asthma control was examined in a cross-section of 205 asthmatics ab...

Given a dataset S of points in R, the range closest-pair (RCP) problem aims to preprocess S into a data structure such that when a query range X is specified, the closest-pair in S ∩ X can be reported efficiently. The RCP problem can be viewed as a range-search version of the classical closestpair problem, and finds applications in many areas. Due to its non-decomposability, the RCP problem is ...

We generalize and unify some aspects of the work of I. Daubechies, J.C. Lagarias [Linear Algebra Appl. 162 (1992) 227–263] on a set R of matrices with right-convergent-products (RCPs). We show that most properties of an RCP set R pass on to its compactification R (i.e., its closure in the matrix space). Results on finite RCP sets generally hold for compact RCP sets, among which is the existence...

Rhesus rhadinovirus (RRV) is currently the closest known, fully sequenced homolog of human Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus. Both these viruses encode complement inhibitors as follows: Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus-complement control protein (KCP) and RRV-complement control protein (RCP). Previously we characterized in detail the functional properties of KCP as a complement inhibit...

Deep hypothermic circulatory arrest (DHCA) with retrograde cerebral perfusion (RCP) under high central venous pressure (CVP) is often used in aortic arch surgery under cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB). We hypothesized that DHCA with RCP under high CVP causes cerebral vascular compression because of increased perivascular pressure due to extravasation of fluid into intracranial tissue. In a retrospe...

We believe that a congestion control algorithm should make flows finish quickly as quickly as possible, while staying stable and fair among flows. Recently, we proposed RCP (Rate Control Protocol) which enables typical Internet-sized flows to complete one to two orders of magnitude faster than the existing (TCP Reno) and the proposed (XCP) congestion control algorithm. Like XCP, RCP uses explic...

OBJECTIVE An electroencephalographic brain-computer interface (BCI) can provide a non-muscular means of communication for people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) or other neuromuscular disorders. We present a novel P300-based BCI stimulus presentation - the checkerboard paradigm (CBP). CBP performance is compared to that of the standard row/column paradigm (RCP) introduced by Farwell an...

Reverse convex programming (RCP) represents an important class of global optimization problems consisting of concave cost and inequality constraint functions. While useful in many practical scenarios due to the frequent appearance of concave models, a more powerful, though somewhat abstractly recognized, characteristic of the RCP problem is its ability to approximate a very general class of non...