We study a typical problem within the air cargo supply chain, concerning transportation of standard Unit Load Devices (ULDs) from freight forwarders’ to ground handlers’ warehouses. First, ULDs are picked up by set available trucks at premises time window. Next, they delivered handlers, also window, and discharged according Last In First Out (LIFO) policy. Due space constraints, handlers have l...

BACKGROUND More than 200 students and teachers at a boarding school in Shanghai developed acute gastroenteritis in December, 2012. The transmission mode remained largely unknown. An immediate epidemiological investigation was conducted to identify it. METHODS Using a retrospective cohort design, we investigated demographic characteristics, school environment, and previous contacts with people...

The present study aimed at the assessment of genetic relatedness among the methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) isolates of bovine and human origin. A set of twenty-four MRSA isolates obtained from cattle (11), buffaloes (10) and their handlers (3) were subjected to PCR-ribotyping using primers specific for 16S-23S ribosomal spacer region. Polymorphism was observed with 23 ribotyp...

NICAM is a communication layer for SMP PC clusters connected via Myrinet, designed to reduce overhead and latency by directly utilizing a micro-processor equipped on the network interface. It adopts remote memory operations to reduce much of the overhead found in message passing. NICAM employs an Active Messages framework for exibility in programming on the network interface, and this exibility...

Two human deaths caused by Australian bat lyssavirus (ABL) infection have been reported since 1996. Information was obtained from 205 persons (mostly adults from south Brisbane and the South Coast of Queensland), who reported potential ABL exposure to the Brisbane Southside Public Health Unit from November 1,1996, to January 31, 1999. Volunteer animal handlers accounted for 39% of potential exp...

This study reports on the occurrence of enteroparasites based on data from an ethnographic study of food handlers in the city of Cascavel, Paraná, Brazil. Fecal material from 343 food handlers of both sexes, between 14 and 75 years of age, was analyzed using Lutz, modified Ritchie and Ziehl-Neelsen techniques. Ethnographic relationships were investigated by means of specific questionnaires. Pos...

Most real-time systems require responsive interrupt handling. Programming of interrupt handlers is challenging: in order to ensure responsiveness, it is often necessary to have interrupt processing enabled in the body of lower priority handlers. It would be a programming error to allow the interrupt handlers to interrupt each other in a cyclic fashion; it could lead to an unbounded stack. Until...

This paper discusses and clarifies effectiveness of data-driven implementation of protocol handling system in multimedia networking environment. This paper first describes the cases where various types of multi-processing capabilities are required in the multimedia networking environment. Among them, it focuses on protocol handling that typically requires realtime multi-processing. This paper t...

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is classified as hospital associated (HA), community associated (CA), livestock associated (LA) and is a global concern. Developing countries, like India, are densely populated country challenging for public hygiene practices. HA-MRSA is comfortably recorded in India, and CA-MRSA is also reported as increasing one. CA-MRSA is serious disease wh...

This paper presents a software architecture that enables the application-specific processing of messages on network processors attached to cluster machines. Such processing is performed by stream handlers executed on such attached network processors (ANPs) and able to manipulate both message headers and their data content. Handler execution can be associated with the ANPs’ receive side, its tra...