The use of crowdsourcing platforms like Amazon Mechan-ical Turk for evaluating the relevance of search results has become an effective strategy that yields results quickly and inexpensively. One approach to ensure quality of worker judgments is to include an initial training period and sub-sequent

Abstract: This paper examines a fundamental problem in the theory of real-time scheduling, that of scheduling a set of periodic or sporadic tasks on a uniprocessor without preemption and without inserted idle time. We exhibit a necessary and sufficient set of conditions C for a set of periodic

This paper presents a method to reduce the energy of interactive systems for mixed workloads: multimedia applications that require constant output rates and sporadic jobs that need prompt responses. The authors' method divides multimedia programs into stages and inserts data buffers between

times ∆Sn: = Sn − Sn−1, n = 1, 2,..., are exponentially independent and identically distributed, the ultimate goal being to check that the first observed events are only sporadic events and not the beginning of an emergent phenomenon. The extremal process R(.) is built from the point process {(Tk, Xk

Abstract Baker and Cirinei have introduced an exact but naive algorithm [3], that consists in solving a state reachability problem in a finite automaton, to check whether a set of sporadic hard real-time tasks is schedulable on an identical multiprocessor platform. However, this algorithm suffers

SUMMARY Hearing acuity was assessed in 45 children with sporadic congenital hypothyroidism during adequate long-term treatment. Otoscopy was performed in each and additional tympano-metry in some of them. Secretory otitis media was found in 6 and was treated medically or by inserting grommets

The APC gene is responsible for familial adenomatous polyposis and is considered to be a tumor suppressor gene associated with development of sporadic colorectal tumors. Here we report the disruption of the APC gene caused by somatic insertion of a long interspersed repetitive element (LINE-1

We consider the problem of non-preemptively scheduling periodic and sporadic task systems on one processor using inserted idle times. For periodic task systems, we prove that the decision problem of determining whether a periodic task system is schedulable for all start times with respect

Angiotensin-converting enzyme gene (ACE) insertion/deletion (I/D) polymorphism have long been linked to sporadic Alzheimer disease (SAD), but the established data remained controversial. To clarify this inconsistency, a comprehensive meta-analysis was conducted. Through searching of Pubmed, Embase

PURPOSE: To determine the effi cacy of INTACS inser-tion using a femtosecond laser in the treatment of ker-atoconus and to compare it to the technique using a mechanical spreader. METHODS: INTACS were inserted in 10 eyes using the mechanical spreader to create the channels and sub-sequently