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A C++-embedded Domain-Specific Language for programming the MORA soft processor array
No full textMORA is a novel platform for high-level FPGA programming of streaming vector and matrix operations, aimed at multimedia applications. It consists of soft array of pipelined low-complexity SIMD processors-in-memory (PIM). We present a Domain-Specific Language (DSL) for high-level programming of the MORA soft processor array. The DSL is embedded in C++, providing designers with a familiar language framework and the ability to compile designs using a standard compiler for functional testing before generating the FPGA bitstream using the MORA toolchain. The paper discusses the MORA-C++ DSL and the compilation route into the assembly for the MORA machine and provides examples to illustrate the programming model and performance
Mora de Castilla. Tutorado. Tipos de poda. Aplicación fertilizantes. Control manual de malezas
No full textVídeo en el que se explican los materiales y métodos para hacer los tutores para el cultivo de la mora de castilla, tipos de poda, aplicación de fertilizantes y control manual de malezas.Video in which the materials and methods to make the tutors for the cultivation of the Mora de Castilla, types of pruning, application of fertilizers and manual control of weeds are explained.Créditos de producción: producción ejecutiva, Luz Mery Chavarro; asesoría temática, Juan Segundo Cabrejo, Celso Acevedo; camara, Alvaro Gamboa F., Guillermo Avila R.; asistencia técnica, Reynel Hernandez; unidad movil, Hipolito Amaya; postproducción, Guillermo Avila R.; Martha E. Agudelo H.; dirección, Omar Valderrama A
Trans-Basin Acequias Of The Mora Valley, New Mexico
No full textPaper about acequias of the Mora Valley, by Leslie R. Kryder, Water Resources Program, University of New Mexico. Includes photographs, maps and appendices
Virginia Mora, Jimmie Mora, Eddie Gutierrez, Bernice Mora, Cecilia (Sally) Gonzales Romero, Onofre Gonzales and unnamed Mora children
No full textBack row, L-R: Virginia Mora, Jimmie Mora, Eddie Gutierrez, Bernice Mora, Cecilia (Sally) Gonzales Romero, Mary Onofre Valdez Gonzales. Children in front are Bernice's children, unidentifie
Nota introduttiva (saggi di Francesco Mora su Simmel)
No full textGeorg Simmel was undoubtedly the author to whom Francesco Mora, throughout his scholarly career, most frequently directed his critical attention. The four essays selected for this volume also testify to the continuity of his work on Simmel, from his debut essay in 1985 to the contributions devoted, more than thirty years later, to "The Meaning of Life and Conflict" (2018) and the expression "Forms of Life" (2018). The Venetian philosopher's hermeneutic objective, which will also be central to the two monographs, and, in particular, to the one on the "Principle of Reciprocity": to trace the apparently eclectic and panoramic nature of Simmelian work back to the common thread of a unitary interpretation
V.A.S. in the follow-up of turbinectomy.
No full textBACKGROUND:
Nasal airflow resistance, as measured by rhinomanometry, is frequently impaired in allergic rhinitis (AR). However, rhinomanometry is not widely available. Visual analogue scales (VAS) have been proposed to assess symptom severity in AR.
AIM OF THE STUDY:
To verify the suitability of the use of the VAS as a surrogate for rhinomanometry in patients with persistent allergic rhinitis and treated with turbinectomy in quantifying nasal obstruction during the follow-up.
METHODS:
Fifty patients (27 males, mean age 23 years, SD 2.24) were studied. VAS for nasal obstruction and rhinomanometry were performed in all patients before turbinectomy and after 6 months.
RESULTS:
A significant correlation was observed between VAS for nasal obstruction and nasal airflow resistance (Spearman r = 0.879, p < 0.001) at baseline. Moreover, a significant direct relationship between these two variables was observed (r = 0.567, p < 0.001) also at the follow-up after surgery.
CONCLUSION:
The use of VAS for assessing the nasal obstruction appears as clinically relevant, in that it allows with good reliability to quantify this symptom in the absence of rhinomanometry in the follow-up of patients treated with turbinectomy
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No full textDetecting pathogens and mounting immune responses upon infection is crucial for animal health. However, these responses come at a high metabolic price (McKean and Lazzaro, 2011, Kominsky et al., 2010), and avoiding pathogens before infection may be advantageous. The bacterial endotoxins lipopolysaccharides (LPS) are important immune system infection cues (Abbas et al., 2014), but it remains unknown whether animals possess sensory mechanisms to detect them prior to infection. Here we show that Drosophila melanogaster display strong aversive responses to LPS and that gustatory neurons expressing Gr66a bitter receptors mediate avoidance of LPS in feeding and egg laying assays. We found the expression of the chemosensory cation channel dTRPA1 in these cells to be necessary and sufficient for LPS avoidance. Furthermore, LPS stimulates Drosophila neurons in a TRPA1-dependent manner and activates exogenous dTRPA1 channels in human cells. Our findings demonstrate that flies detect bacterial endotoxins via a gustatory pathway through TRPA1 activation as conserved molecular mechanism.sponsorship: Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie Alessia Soldano Luis Franco Guangda Liu Natalia Mora Emre Yaksi Bassem A Hassanr Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek G.0702.12 Alessia Soldano Yeranddy A Alpizar Brett Boonen Alejandro Lopez-Requena Natalia Mora Thomas Voets Rudi Vennekens Bassem A Hassan Karel Talaverar Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek G.0077.15 Alessia Soldano Yeranddy A Alpizar Brett Boonen Alejandro Lopez-Requena Natalia Mora Thomas Voets Rudi Vennekens Bassem A Hassan Karel Talaverar Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek G.0680.10 Alessia Soldano Yeranddy A Alpizar Brett Boonen Alejandro Lopez-Requena Natalia Mora Thomas Voets Rudi Vennekens Bassem A Hassan Karel Talaverar Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek G.0681.10 Alessia Soldano Yeranddy A Alpizar Brett Boonen Alejandro Lopez-Requena Natalia Mora Thomas Voets Rudi Vennekens Bassem A Hassan Karel Talaverar Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek G.0503.12 Alessia Soldano Yeranddy A Alpizar Brett Boonen Alejandro Lopez-Requena Natalia Mora Thomas Voets Rudi Vennekens Bassem A Hassan Karel Talaverar Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek G.0654.15 Alessia Soldano Yeranddy A Alpizar Brett Boonen Alejandro Lopez-Requena Natalia Mora Thomas Voets Rudi Vennekens Bassem A Hassan Karel Talaverar Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek G.0761.10N Alessia Soldano Yeranddy A Alpizar Brett Boonen Alejandro Lopez-Requena Natalia Mora Thomas Voets Rudi Vennekens Bassem A Hassan Karel Talaverar Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek G.0596.12 Alessia Soldano Yeranddy A Alpizar Brett Boonen Alejandro Lopez-Requena Natalia Mora Thomas Voets Rudi Vennekens Bassem A Hassan Karel Talaverar Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek G.0565.07 Alessia Soldano Yeranddy A Alpizar Brett Boonen Alejandro Lopez-Requena Natalia Mora Thomas Voets Rudi Vennekens Bassem A Hassan Karel Talaverar KU Leuven GOA/14/011 Alessia Soldano Yeranddy A Alpizar Brett Boonen Luis Franco Alejandro Lopez-Requena Guangda Liu Natalia Mora Emre Yaksi Thomas Voets Rudi Vennekens Bassem A Hassan Karel Talaverar European Commission IUAP P7/13 Alessia Soldano Yeranddy A Alpizar Brett Boonen Luis Franco Alejandro Lopez-Requena Guangda Liu Natalia Mora Emre Yaksi Thomas Voets Rudi Vennekensr KU Leuven OT/12/091 Alessia Soldano Yeranddy A Alpizar Brett Boonen Luis Franco Alejandro Lopez-Requena Guangda Liu Natalia Mora Emre Yaksi Thomas Voets Rudi Vennekens Bassem A Hassan Karel Talaverar KU Leuven PF-TRPLe Alessia Soldano Yeranddy A Alpizar Brett Boonen Luis Franco Alejandro Lopez-Requena Guangda Liu Natalia Mora Emre Yaksi Thomas Voets Rudi Vennekens Bassem A Hassan Karel Talavera (Vlaams Instituut voor Biotechnologie, Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek|G.0702.12, Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek|G.0077.15, Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek|G.0680.10, Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek|G.0681.10, Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek|G.0503.12, Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek|G.0654.15, Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek|G.0761.10N, Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek|G.0596.12, KU Leuven|GOA/14/011, KU Leuven|OT/12/091, European Commission|IUAP P7/13, KU Leuven PF-TRPLe)status: Publishe
mutualinf: An R Package for Computing and Decomposing the Mutual Information Index of Segregation
No full textIn this article, we present the R package mutualinf for computing and decomposing the mutual information index of segregation by means of recursion and parallelization techniques. The mutual information index is the only multigroup index of segregation that satisfies strong decompos- ability properties, both for organizational units and groups. The mutualinf package contributes by (1) implementing the decomposition of the mutual information index into a “between” and a “within” term; (2) computing, in a single call, a chain of decompositions that involve one “between” term and several “within” terms; (3) providing the contributions of the variables that define the groups or the organizational units to the overall segregation; and (4) providing the demographic weights and local indexes employed in the computation of the “within” term. We illustrate the use of mutualinf using Chilean school enrollment data. With these data, we study socioeconomic and ethnic segregation in schools.Rafael Fuentealba-Chaura and Julio Rojas-Mora acknowledge the financial support by the FONDE-
CYT/ANID Project 11170583. Ricardo Mora and Daniel Guinea-Martin acknowledge the financial
support of MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 (Project no. PID2019-108576RB-I00). Cluster time was
provided by the UCT VIP Project FEQUIP2019-INRN-03
MARGINAL PRODUCTIVITY INDEX POLICIES FOR SCHEDULING A MULTICLASS DELAY-/LOSS-SENSITIVE QUEUE
No full textWe address the problem of scheduling a multiclass M/M/1 queue with a finite dedicated buffer for each class. Some classes are delay-sensitive, modeling real-time traffic (e.g. voice, video), whereas others are loss-sensitive, modeling nonreal-time traffic (e.g. data). Different levels of tolerance to delay and loss are modeled by appropriate linear holding cost and rejection cost rates. The goal is to design well-grounded and tractable scheduling policies which nearly minimize the discounted or long-run average expected cost objective. We develop new dynamic index policies, prescribing to give higher service priority to classes with larger index values, where the priority index of a class measures the marginal productivity of work at its current state. To construct the indices, we deploy the theory of marginal productivity indices (MPIs) and PCLindexability we have introduced in recent work, and further introduce significant extensions to such theory motivated by phenomena observed in the model of concern. The MPI policies are shown to furnish new, insightful structural results, and to exhibit a nearly optimal performance in a computational study.
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