We compute the probability to detect long Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) at z ≥ 5 with Swift, assuming that GRBs form preferentially in low–metallicity environments. The model fits well both the observed BATSE and Swift GRB differential peak flux distribution and is consistent with the number of z ≥ 2.5 detections in the 2–year Swift data. We find that the probability to observe a burst at z ≥ 5 becom...

Coordination among actors in a humanitarian relief supply chain decides whether a relief operation can be or successful or not. In humanitarian supply chains, due to the urgency and importance of the situation combined with scarce resources, actors have to coordinate and trust each other in order to achieve joint goals. This paper investigated empirically the role of swift trust as mediating va...

Many of the high-performance computing (HPC) systems use a centralized storage system that is separate from the compute system. This approach is not going to be scalable as we seek to achieve exa-scale performance[6]. Distributed file systems can provide the scalability needed for exa-scale computing. FusionFS is a file system designed for HPC systems that achieves scalability in part by removi...

We discuss INTEGRAL's capabilities to detect a high redshift population of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) in comparison to other high-energy missions. Emphasis is done on the study of the relative capabilities of IBIS on board INTEGRAL with respect to SWIFT and HETE 2 for detecting a high redshift population of GRBs. We conclude that, if the GRB rate is proportional to the star formation rate, INTEGRA...

BACKGROUND Current wound assessment practices are lacking on several measures. For example, the most common method for measuring wound size is using a ruler, which has been demonstrated to be crude and inaccurate. An increase in periwound temperature is a classic sign of infection but skin temperature is not always measured during wound assessments. To address this, we have developed a smartpho...

Several correlations among parameters derived from modelling the high-energy properties of GRBs have been reported. We show that well-known examples of these have common features indicative of strong contamination by selection effects. We focus here on the impact of detector threshold truncation on the spectral peak versus isotropic equivalent energy release (Epk-Eiso) relation, extended to a l...

We present an I/O architecture, called Swift, that addresses the problem of data rate mismatches between the requirements of an application, storage devices, and the interconnection medium. The goal of Swift is to support high data rates in general purpose distributed systems. Swift uses a high-speed interconnection medium to provide high data rate transfers by using multiple slower storage dev...

With Gulliver's Travels, Jonathan Swift descends upon Humanity like a surgeon upon a cadaver, ruthlessly cutting and digging to uncover and display the internal mechanisms behind external actions. Most of this painful operation occurs in Houyhnhnmland where Swift lays bare the components of human nature. As part of his lecture, Swift offers Houyhnhnmland as a representation of the human mind wh...