This paper presents a “gridifying” process for aerodynamic wing design as a case study of complex engineering design problems. In order to assist engineers and scientists to solve the problems on the Grid environment effectively, we developed an API based on GridRPC, a Remote Procedure Call standard interface for Grid-enabled applications. In this work, we also provide mechanisms to reduce comm...

SSJ is a Java library for stochastic simulation, developed in the Département d'Informa-tique et de Recherche Opérationnelle (DIRO), at the Université de Montréal. It provides facilities for generating uniform and nonuniform random variates, computing different measures related to probability distributions, performing goodness-of-fit tests, applying quasi-Monte Carlo methods, collecting statist...

The aims of the study reported in this article are to investigate factors affecting English as a foreign language (EFL) teachers’ use of computers in their classrooms and to find out EFL teachers’ perceptions of computer-assisted language learning (CALL) and ways to improve CALL practice in school settings. Participants in the study were twelve Korean in-service teachers of EFL working at secon...

This article advocates for legislative action against the “religious exemptions” or ”conscience clauses” used by religiously-affiliated healthcare facilities, particular in the context of refusing abortion, sterilization, and other reproductive health services. Among other recommendations, the authors call for religious exemptions on the individual rather than institutional level; that the reli...

Note: Most SVRC technical reports are available via anonymous ftp, from svrc.it.uq.edu.au in the directory /pub/techreports. Abstracts and compressed postscript les are available via Abstract This paper describes how software visualisation can be supported in a generic environment for manipulation of software documents, using oo-the-shelf graph-drawing tools. The eeectiveness of the visualisati...

The Lambada framework provides facilities for fluid interoperation between Haskell (currently both Hugs and GHC using non-Haskell98 extensions) and Java. Using Lambada, we can call Java methods from Haskell, and have Java methods invoke Haskell functions. The framework rests on the Java Native Interface (JNI). The Lambada release includes a tool for generating IDL from Java .class files (using ...

We present an interactive environment, named AStErIx, to help the development of new logic synthesis algorithms and visualize graphically the synthesis results. This environment is based on public domain tools (Sis and LEDA), with added facilities to improve the programming support (based on the Obelix library), and a graph interface (Ideex) to analyze the experimental results. The whole system...

We report a case of a cutaneous fungal infection in a 12-year-old oncology patient related to patient tape. Our facility had no established guidelines for patient tape. A survey conducted of multiple local healthcare facilities revealed no existing policies or standards of care related to tape storage or use. This reveals a gap in practice. We call for formal recommendations for tape storage an...

BACKGROUND There are conflicting reports of antiretroviral therapy (ART) effectiveness comparisons between primary healthcare (PHC) facilities and hospitals in low-income settings. This comparison has not been evaluated on a broad scale in South Africa. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS A retrospective cohort study was conducted including ART-naïve adults from 59 facilities in four provinces in ...