This paper compares the very fundamental concepts behind two approaches to optimistic parallel discrete-event simulation on BSP computers 10]. We refer to (i) asynchronous simulation time advance as it is realised in the BSP implementation of Time Warp 3], and (ii) synchronous time advance as it is realised in the BSP implementation of Breathing Time Buckets 8]. Our results suggest that asynchr...

Bovine seminal plasma was shown to contain three similar proteins, called BSP-A1, BSP-A2 and BSP-A3. Both BSP-A1 and BSP-A2 were shown to be molecular variants of a recently characterized peptide called PDC-109. They seem to differ only in their degree of glycosylation and otherwise seem to possess an identical amino acid composition. The work in the present paper deals with the complete charac...

1. The kinetics of disappearance from the blood of three organic anions were studied in patients with acute intermittent porphyria. Indocyanine green (ICG) and ['4C]bilirubin were cleared normally in this disease, whereas bromsulphthalein (BSP) was cleared at less than the normal rate. The first exponential component of the BSP clearance curve was normal in acute intermittent porphyria, but the...

This paper surveys and places into perspective a number of results concerning the D-BSP (Decomposable Bulk Synchronous Parallel) model of computation, a variant of the popular BSP model proposed by Valiant in the early nineties. D-BSP captures part of the proximity structure of the computing platform, modeling it by suitable decompositions into clusters, each characterized by its own bandwidth ...

The aim of this paper is to demonstrate the impact of features of parallel computation models on the design of efficient parallel algorithms. For this purpose, we start with considering Valiant’s BSP model and design an optimal multisearch algorithm. For a realistic extension of this model which takes the critical blocksize into account, namely the BSP* model due to Bäumker, Dittrich, and Meyer...

Introduction Bone sialoprotein (BSP) is a highly conserved multifunctional glycoprotein of the SIBLING family with a flexible structure and a variety of known roles, from cancer biology to tissue mineralization. BSP is present in a variety of mineralized tissues such as bone, dentin, and hypertrophic cartilage and is highly expressed in sites of active bone formation, during both development an...

The correlation between calcification and papillary thyroid carcinoma has received increasing attention. We investigated the ability of bone sialoprotein (BSP) and osteopontin (OPN) protein levels to diagnose papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC), and explored the correlation between BSP and OPN protein levels and calcification in PTC. Archival PTC specimens from patients with PTC with calcificatio...

Changes in glycosylation are salient features of cancer cells. Here, we report on the diagnostic and therapeutic properties of IDK1, an antibody against tumour associated, hypoglycosylated bone sialoprotein (hypo-BSP). The affinity of the rat monoclonal antibody IDK1 for hypo-BSP, as determined by microscale thermophoresis, was three orders of magnitude higher than for mature BSP, whereas the m...

The BSP model was proposed as a step towards general purpose parallel computing. This paper introduces the E-BSP model that extends the BSP model in two ways. First, it provides a way to deal with unbalanced communication patterns, i.e., communication patterns in which the amount of data sent or received by each processor is different. Second, it adds a notion of general locality to the BSP mod...

Sulfobromophthalein (BSP) is used to study hepatobiliary excretory function. BSP is conjugated with glutathione (GSH), whereas its dibrominated analog disulfobromophthalein (DBSP) is not conjugated with GSH prior to biliary excretion. In addition, both BSP and DBSP are transported into hepatocytes via organic anion-transporting polypeptides and excreted into bile via multidrug resistance-associ...