The nation’s nuclear power industry is in trouble. The number of operating reactors continues to decline, while only one new plant is scheduled to open and it is well behind schedule and 50% over budget. The article will ...

Big data analytics picked up pace to offer meaningful information based on analyzing big data. Big data have various distinctive characteristics that together have led to overwhelming the available infrastructures both ...

The passage of the Food and Drug Administration Modernization Act of 1996 set into motion the eventual pathway for approval of biomarkers used in PET. This was the sentinel event in the history of molecular imaging as well ...

In this paper, we investigate the requirements and challenges of introducing mobility in large distributed systems. One major obstacle is resource discovery in the presence of mobile nodes. Collaborative resource discovery ...

Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a debilitating injury that affects millions of people in the United States. It is caused by an external mechanical stimulus to the head, such as from blast loading, impacts, or rapid ...

Concussions have become a major concern inprofessional sports particularly in the National Football League and the National Hockey League with most of the attention being directed at the NFL. With ...

We show how three-dimensional structures can be formed in polymer blends from pre-existing structures. “Tape” of one polymer is inserted into a matrix of an alternative polymer to form an array of parallelepipeds. We subject ...

This paper proposes a fast and efficient concurrent technique for downloading large files from replicated FTP servers available over the Internet, Cloud and Grid environments. This technique utilizes the availability of ...

Active learning tools are critical in imparting real world experiences to the students within a classroom environment. This is important because graduates are expected to develop software that meets rigorous quality standards ...