Abstract:
Compute-intensive packet processing (CIPP) in a computer system comprising a programmable computing platform is accelerated by using a packet I/O engine, implemented on the platform, to perform packet I/O functions, where the packet I/O engine is configured to achieve direct access to a network interface card (NIC) from a user application. For a Linux-based computer system, standard I/O mechanisms of Linux are bypassed and only the packet I/O engine is used in performing the I/O functions. Furthermore, the computer system is configured to: process a batch of packets, instead of packet by packet, in every function call; and when moving a packet between a buffer of an individual user application and a queue of the packet I/O engine, copy a packet descriptor of the packet instead the entire packet. In addition, workflows across different working threads are balanced and parallelism is exploited to fully utilize resources of the platform.
Abstract:
A caffeoylquinic acid-rich extract obtained from Erigeron multiradiatus and a method for producing the same. A caffeoylquinic acid-rich extract includes at least 15% by weight of a mixture of certain caffeoylquinic acids. The extract with the mixture of caffeoylquinic acids is highly efficacious in treating and preventing myocardial ischemia or myocardial ischemia reperfusion injuries. A method for treating or preventing a disease caused by myocardial ischemia or myocardial ischemia reperfusion includes administering a therapeutically effective amount of the caffeoylquinic acid-rich extract to a subject. Pharmaceutical compositions including the caffeoylquinic acid-rich extract are also disclosed.
Abstract:
Recent trends of larger wafer and smaller lot sizes bring cluster tools with frequent lot switches. Practitioners must deal with more transient processes during such switches, including start-up and close-down processes. To obtain higher yield, it is necessary to shorten the duration of transient processes. Much prior effort was poured into the modeling and scheduling for the steady state of cluster tools. In the existing literature, no attention has been turned to optimize the close-down process for single-arm cluster tools with wafer residency constraints. This invention intends to do so by 1) developing a Petri net model to analyze their scheduling properties and 2) proposing Petri net-based methods to solve their close-down optimal scheduling problems under different workloads among their process steps. Industrial examples are used to illustrate the effectiveness and application of the proposed methods.
Abstract:
The present invention discloses a method of treating cancer and/or multidrug-resistant cancer, comprising administering an effective amount of hernandezine or thalidezine. A pharmaceutical composition comprising hernandezine or thalidezine admixed with a pharmaceutical carrier for treating cancers and/or multidrug-resistant cancer is also disclosed.
Abstract:
A MAC protocol, useful for wireless local area networks (WLANs), is provided for improving throughput efficiency. The protocol includes three concurrent processes, and the channel is divided into a contention subchannel and a transmission subchannel. In the contention process, all nodes use the standard RTS/CTS mechanism operated on the contention channel to contend for a right of transmission. When one node gains the right, all the nodes store the contention result into their respective contention queue (CQ) buffers. In the transmission process, the nodes sequentially transmit their data over the transmission channel according to the order of the nodes stored in the CQ buffers. When one node finishes data transmission, the CQ buffers are updated. The contention process and the transmission process are connected by the queuing process, where each node dynamically updates its own CQ buffer according to the contention result and each instance of data transmission.
Abstract:
A MAC protocol, useful for WLANs, is provided for random access over a channel. The protocol includes three concurrent processes. The channel includes a contention subchannel and a transmission subchannel. In the contention process, all nodes use the standard RTS/CTS mechanism operated on the contention subchannel to contend for a transmission right. When one node gains the right, all the nodes store the contention result into their respective contention queue (CQ) buffers. In the transmission process, the nodes sequentially transmit their data over the transmission subchannel according to the order of the nodes stored in the CQ buffers. When one node finishes transmission, the CQ buffers are updated. The contention and transmission processes are connected by the queuing process for dynamically updating each node's CQ buffer. When OFDM is used in a random-access system, numbers of data subcarriers in both subchannels for maximizing the system throughput are given.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a compound that inhibits activity of oncogenic ROS1, a composition comprising said compound. The present invention also provides the use of said composition for treating cancer.
Abstract:
A method for scheduling dual-armed cluster tools with wafer revisiting is provided. In order to speed up start-up transient processes, the present invention adopts a program evaluation and review technique for the analysis of start-up transient processes and develops optimization algorithms for their scheduling for dual-arm cluster tools. Then, their complexity is analyzed.
Abstract:
The present invention provides an in vivo platform for identifying and determining therapeutic or prophylactic activity of test compounds in delay-type hypersensitivity (DTH) and other inflammatory or cancerous diseases mediated by activation of IKK-βC46A mutants. The in vivo platform of the present invention is a non-human transgenic mammal, e.g., a mouse model, with a site directed mutagenesis at a cysteine residue replaced by alanine in IKK-β protein kinase. The site directed mutagenesis is introduced by a specially designed targeting vector containing a transversion in exon 3 of the Ikbkb genes encoding the IKK-β. The present invention also provides methods for generating the transgenic mammal and for determining and identifying compounds that can inhibit activation of IKK-βC46A mutants.
Abstract:
The present invention provides a method for updating a mobile terminal (MT) for a mobile communication network when the MT crosses a boundary of a first location-update (LA) area. The method comprises determining a second LA to be assigned to the MT for replacing the first LA. The second LA is characterized by a LA center and a LA size, both determined by optimizing them in a sense that a mean total location-management cost is minimized without restricting the LA center to be fixed at the initial position. The initial position is defined as the location where the MT performs a latest location update at the first LA before crossing the boundary. This invention also provides schemes of partitioning the second LA into sub-paging areas for use in paging the MT when a call arrives at the network, so as to minimize the paging cost while satisfying delay requirements.