Turbo codes, low-density parity-check (LDPC) codes and turbo product codes (TPCs) are high performance error-correction codes which employ iterative algorithms for decoding. Under different conditions, the behaviors of the decoders are different. While the nonlinear dynamical behaviors of turbo code decoders and LDPC decoders have been reported in the literature, the dynamical behavior of TPC d...

The use of the Java programming language for implementing server-side application logic is increasing in popularity, yet there is very little known about the architectural requirements of this emerging commercial workload. We present a detailed characterization of the Transaction Processing Council’s TPC-W web benchmark, implemented in Java. The TPC-W benchmark is designed to exercise the web s...

Preserving energy is a very critical issue in mobile ad-hoc sensor networks (MASNETs) because sensor nodes have a severe resource constraints due to their lack of processing power and limited in power supply. Since the communication is the most energy consuming activities in MASNETs, the power use for transmission or reception of packet should be managed as much as possible. One way to reduce e...

Numerous studies have reported the existence of tumor-promoting cells (TPC) with self-renewal potential and a relevant role in drug resistance. However, pathways and modifications involved in the maintenance of such tumor subpopulations are still only partially understood. Sequencing-based approaches offer the opportunity for a detailed study of TPC including their transcriptome modulation. Usi...

Herbal infusions of nine traditionally used medicinal plants were screened for total phenolic content (TPC), radical scavenging activity (RSA) and oxidative DNA damage protecting capacity by chemical assays. The TPC was determined in order to know its correlation with RSA. The extracts of T. cordifolia and C. spectabilis presented highest TPC values (34.21 ± 0.93 and 28.36 ± 1.05 mg GAE/g) and ...

Figure 1 (by Charles Levine from [2]): Price/performance trend lines for TPC-A and TPC-C. The 15-year trend lines track Moore's Law (100x per 10 years.)

With the increasing demand for high-speed communications systems, forward error correction (FEC) codes and signal processing techniques receive much attention. FEC is a mathematical method for introducing redundancy in a data stream or data block to protect information symbols against potential errors during transmission through a communications channel. A major breakthrough in FEC was achieved...

INTRODUCTION Despite increasing use of tunneled pleural catheters (TPCs), their efficacy as a definitive procedure for achieving palliation or spontaneous pleurodesis (SP) in the management of malignant pleural effusion (MPE) remains unclear. In the largest TPC series to date, we evaluate the efficacy for palliation and review the rate and predictors of SP. METHODS Retrospective review of 418...