Till now for control of dracontiasis, the drinking water sources showing prolific breeding of c;/clops in endemic areas were either super' chlorinated or the biological method of control by introduction of cyclopscidal fishes like Ambassis, Etroplus, Barbus etc., was resorted to after the removal of the predatory fishes. Super-chlorination, if done regularly, gives fairly good results but socia...

The CYCLOPS is a cable-driven parallel mechanism used for minimally invasive applications, with the ability to be customised to different surgical needs; allowing it to be made procedureand patient-specific. For adequate optimisation, however, appropriate data on clinical constraints and task-space is required. Whereas the former can be provided through preoperative planning and imaging, the la...

The zebrafish EGF-CFC gene one-eyed pinhead (oep) is required zygotically for the formation of the ventral neuroectoderm, endoderm, and prechordal plate. Here we report that embryos lacking both maternal and zygotic Oep activity are defective in germ layer formation, organizer development, and the positioning of the anterior-posterior axis. An identical phenotype is displayed by double mutants ...

To leverage the elastic nature of cloud computing, a solution provider must be able to accurately gauge demand for its offering. In this paper, we propose a general framework and present a prototype implementation of peer-assisted content delivery application. Our system – called Cyclops – dynamically adjusts the off-cloud bandwidth consumed by content servers (which represents the bulk of the ...

This review of holoprosencephaly provides a mythologic and teratologic distillate of the subject under the following headings: Babylonian tablets; Greek mythology; pictures from the 16th through the 20th Centuries; 19th Century teratology; history of more modern concepts and their terminologies; and ocean-going ships named "Cyclops."

Feeding experiments and examination of gut contents show that Neomysis mercedis is an effective predator on zooplankton in Lake Washington. Daphnia is consistently preferred to other prey; Diaptomus and Cyclops copepodids and nauplii are always underrepresented in mysid diets. This pattern of selectivity is consistent with the hypothesis that a large population of Neomysis formerly excluded Dap...

The upcoming exa-scale era requires a parallel program execution model capable of achieving scalability, productivity, energy efficiency, and resiliency. The codelet model is a fine-grained dataflow-inspired execution model which is the focus of several tera-scale and exa-scale studies such as DARPA’s UHPC, DOE’s X-Stack, and the European TERAFLUX projects. Current codelet implementations aim t...