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Parameter based tuning model for optimizing performance on GPU
Recently, the graphic processing units (GPUs) are becoming increasingly popular for the high performance computing applications. Although the GPUs provide high peak performance, exploiting the full performance...
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GUI-Based Korean Font Editing System Using Font Parameterization Technique
When designing Korean fonts, about 2,500 widely used characters should be designed among 11,172 characters. When generating fonts, characters are generally described as ‘outline’. On average, it takes more th...
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Open AccessSystematic functional analysis of kinases in the fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans
Cryptococcus neoformans is the leading cause of death by fungal meningoencephalitis; however, treatment options remain limited. Here we report the construction of 264 signature-tagged gene-deletion strains for 12...
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Microalga, Acutodesmus obliquus KGE 30 as a potential candidate for CO2 mitigation and biodiesel production
In this study, the effect of flue gas CO2 on growth, lipid production, and fatty acid composition of a green microalga Acutodesmus obliquus KGE 30 was investigated. The highest growth rate (0.46 g L−1 and μmax = ...
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Biosorption of Cu(II) by immobilized microalgae using silica: kinetic, equilibrium, and thermodynamic study
Immobilized microalgae using silica (IMS) from Micractinium reisseri KGE33 was synthesized through a sol-gel reaction. Green algal waste biomass, the residue of M. reisseri KGE33 after oil extraction, was used as...
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VM auto-scaling methods for high throughput computing on hybrid infrastructure
Cloud computing provides on-demand resource provisioning and scalable resources dynamically for the efficient use of computing resources. Scientific applications recently need a very large number of loosely co...
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Open AccessSystematic characterization of the peroxidase gene family provides new insights into fungal pathogenicity in Magnaporthe oryzae
Fungal pathogens have evolved antioxidant defense against reactive oxygen species produced as a part of host innate immunity. Recent studies proposed peroxidases as components of antioxidant defense system. Ho...
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Risk assessment of metal(loid)-contaminated soils before and after soil washing
A risk assessment of two different metal(loid)-contaminated soils (J1 and J2) collected from a former refinery site was conducted. The soil samples were sequentially washed up to 16 times with 0.1 N ethylenedi...
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Open AccessSystematic functional profiling of transcription factor networks in Cryptococcus neoformans
Cryptococcus neoformans causes life-threatening meningoencephalitis in humans, but its overall biological and pathogenic regulatory circuits remain elusive, particularly due to the presence of an evolutionarily d...
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Open AccessGenome-wide profiling of DNA methylation provides insights into epigenetic regulation of fungal development in a plant pathogenic fungus, Magnaporthe oryzae
DNA methylation is an important epigenetic modification that regulates development of plants and mammals. To investigate the roles of DNA methylation in fungal development, we profiled genome-wide methylation ...
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Application of Large-Scale Classification Techniques for Simple Location Estimation Experiments
This chapter describes an application using established classification techniques for performing simple multimodal location estimation experiments. It demonstrates the use of Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM)—and l...
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Introduction
In driving school, we learned that “traffic is defined by the fact that no two cars can be at the same point at the same time.” While quantum physicists might argue differently, this statement can be generaliz...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Design on the BPEL Engine Generator for Adding New Functions
Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) is widely using in various domains because it describes the flow of works depending on their conditions, rules and the call of Web services in service-oriented comput...
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Collaborative Multimodal Location Estimation of Consumer Media
With the emergence of Web 2.0 and with GPS devices becoming ubiquitous and pervasive in our daily life, location-based services are rapidly gaining traction in the online world. The main driving force behind t...
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Human Versus Machine: Establishing a Human Baseline for Multimodal Location Estimation
In recent years, the problem of video location estimation (i.e., estimating the longitude/latitude coordinates of a video without GPS information) has been approached with diverse methods and ideas in the rese...
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The Benchmark as a Research Catalyst: Charting the Progress of Geo-prediction for Social Multimedia
Benchmarks have the power to bring research communities together to focus on specific research challenges. They drive research forward by making it easier to systematically compare and contrast new solutions, ...
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Content-Based Privacy for Consumer-Produced Multimedia
We and future in Internet scale , , and linking can circumvent traditional and barriers. We therefore are in dire need of a new research field to address this issue and come up with new solutio...
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Open AccessfunRNA: a fungi-centered genomics platform for genes encoding key components of RNAi
RNA interference (RNAi) is involved in genome defense as well as diverse cellular, developmental, and physiological processes. Key components of RNAi are Argonaute, Dicer, and RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdR...
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Towards an integrated management system based on abstraction of heterogeneous virtual resources
Virtualization technology reduces the costs for server installation, operation, and maintenance and it can simplify development of distributed systems. Currently, there are various virtualization technologies ...