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...

The applicability of cotton-bleached soda pulp (C-BSP) was investigated as a raw material for manufacturing cationic nano-fibrillated cellulose (NFC) via quaternization anionic NFC using glycidyl-trimethyl-ammonium chloride (GMA). prepared by beating and micro-grinding C-BSP, performed post treatment to induce charge reversal in NFC. characteristics manufactured C-BSP hardwood-bleached kraft (H...

Bone sialoprotein (BSP) is an early marker of differentiated osteoblasts that has been implicated in the nucleation of hydroxyapatite crystal formation during de novo bone formation. Although essentially specific to mineralizing connective tissues, BSP is also expressed ectopically by carcinomas that exhibit microcalcification and which metastasize to bone with high frequency. However, it is no...

[35S]Bromosulfophthalein ([35C]BSP), [14C]sodium taurocholate ([14C]NaTC), AND 10 MG OF UNLABELED BSP.and of phenol-3,6-dibromophthalein disulfonate (DBSP) per kilogram body weight were injected in the caudal artery of free-swimming dogfish sharks (Squalus acanthias) and small skates (Raja erinacea). Twenty-four hours later, 85.8 +/- 15.7% of [35S]BSP was recovered in bile and liver in dogfish ...

The goal of this study was to compare the functions of Clara and type II cells during alveolar clearance and recycling of surfactant protein (SP) A, a secretory product of both cell types. We examined the incorporation of instilled biotinylated SP-A (bSP-A) into rat lung type II and Clara cells as a measure of clearance and recycling of the protein. Ultrastructural localization of bSP-A was acc...

We describe the first known algorithm for efficiently maintaining a Binary Space Partition (BSP) for n continuously moving segments in the plane, whose interiors remain disjoint throughout the motion. Under reasonable assumptions on the motion, we show that the total number of times this BSP changes is O(n2), and that we can update the BSP in O(logn) expected time per change. Throughout the mot...

Computationally intensive applications with frequent communication and synchronization require careful design for eecient execution on networks of workstations. We describe a Bulk-Synchronous Processing (BSP) model implementation of a plasma simulation and use of BSP analysis techniques for tuning the program for arbitrary architectures. In addition, we compare the performance of the BSP implem...

Binary Space Partitioning Trees (BSP-Trees) have been proposed as an alternative way to represent polytopes based on the spatial subdivision paradigm. Algorithms that convert from Boundary Representation (BRep) to BSP-Trees have been proposed, but none is known to perform the opposite conversion. In this paper we present such an algorithm, that takes as input a BSP-Tree representation for a pol...