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Open AccessCommon dysregulated pathways in obese adipose tissue and atherosclerosis
The metabolic syndrome is becoming increasingly prevalent in the general population that is at simultaneous risk for both type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. The critical pathogenic mechanisms underlyi...
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BPLG: A Tuned Butterfly Processing Library for GPU Architectures
In order to increase the efficiency of existing software many works are incorporating GPU processing. However, despite the current advances in GPU languages and tools, taking advantage of their parallel architect...
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Influence of memory access patterns to small-scale FFT performance
Modern GPUs (Graphics Processing Units) offer very high computing power at relative low cost. To take advantage of their computing resources and develop efficient implementations is essential to have certain know...
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Optimizing Monte Carlo radiosity on graphics hardware
The radiosity method is usually employed for the rendering of highly realistic synthetic images. In this paper we present an implementation of the Monte Carlo radiosity algorithm on the GPU using CUDA. Our pro...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Separating Learning as an Aspect in Malaca Agents
Current OO frameworks provided with MAS development toolkits provide core abstractions to implement the agent behavior, by using the typical OO specialisation mechanisms. However, these OO designs do not provi...
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Unified Hybrid Terrain Representation Based on Local Convexifications
Hybrid digital terrain models represent an effective framework to combine and integrate terrain data with different topology and resolution. Cartographic digital terrain models typically are constituted by reg...
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Analyzing Architectural Evolution Issues of Multimedia Frameworks
The growing complexity in the development of Web-based services in general, and multimedia services in particular, makes necessary the application of sound development methods. New multimedia devices, coding a...
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A Data Parallel Formulation of the Barnes-Hut Method for N-Body Simulations
This paper presents a data-parallel formulation for N-body simulations using the Barnes-Hut method. The tree-structured problem is first linearized by using space-filling curves. This process allows us to use sta...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Middleware Support for Multimedia Collaborative Applications over the Web: A Case Study
Software composition and frameworks are currently important technologies for multimedia services development, especially on the Web. These technologies can be successfully applied to multimedia collaborative s...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A probabilistic model for best-first search B&B algorithms
In this paper we present a probabilistic model for analysing trees generated during problem solving using best-first search Branch and Bound algorithm. We consider the weight associated with the edges as well ...
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Single Vessel Stenosis after Acute Myocardial Infarction: Which Patients Should Undergo Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty?
From April 1980 to December 1983, 33 patients (29 male, 4 female; mean age = 50.3 years) with previous myocardial infarction and one-vessel disease with ⩾70% stenosis in the infarct-related vessel, underwent p...
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Atenolol in Unstable Angina
30 patients (21 male, 9 female; mean age 60.6 ± 10 years) hospitalised for unstable angina underwent clinical and isotopic evaluation (radionuclide angiography) before and 1 week after treatment with atenolol ...
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Interest of Radionuclide Methods for the Assessment of the Results of Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty
Percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) is a new therapeutic technique in ischemic heart disease, used mostly in patients with single-vessel disease. At present, medical management is still consi...
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Evolution of Ventricular Function in Young Patients with Myocardial Infarction and Normal Coronary Arteries: Advantage of Isotopic Methods
Myocardial infarction (MI) with normal coronary arteries is uncommon and only recently described [1, 2]. Few Studies have been devoted to its long term prognosis [3]