A very simple, and outside NumPy, commonly used trick of buffer-reuse is introduced to the NumPy library to speed up the performance of scientific applications in Python/NumPy. The implementation, which we name software victim-caching, is very simple. The code itself consists of less than 100 lines of code, and took less than one day to add to NumPy, though it should be noted that the programme...

G iven the high prevalence of coronary artery disease in Western countries, selection of the optimal therapeutic strategy for individual cardiac patients has become an issue of utmost costbenefit importance. During the past two decades, large clinical trials have established the respective roles of medical treatment versus coronary artery bypass surgery in the management of patients with corona...

BACKGROUND Coronary artery calcium score (CACS) is a quantitative assessment of calcifications and an established predictor of cardiovascular events. OBJECTIVES In this study, we evaluated the diagnostic accuracy, negative predictive value (NPV), positive predictive value (PPV), specificity and sensitivity of CACS less than 100 in predicting significant coronary artery stenosis in patients wi...

Although studies on RC beams under shear have a history record of more than 100 years, many important&#10issues in this context still remain that have evaded attention. The aim of the current study is to study a number of these less investigated aspects of the behavior of RC beams under shear. For this purpose, and based on the modified compression field theory, a computer program has been writ...