74,413 research outputs found
Brain Segmentation ? A Case study of Biomedical Cloud Computing for Education and Research
Medical imaging is widely adopted in Hospitals and medical institutes, and new ways to improve existing medical imaging services are regularly exploited. This paper describes the adoption of Cloud Computing is useful for medical education and research, and describes the methodology, results and lesson learned. A working Bioinformatics Cloud platform can demonstrate computation and visualisation of brain imaging. The aim is to study segmentation of brains, which divides the brain into ten major regions. The Cloud platform has these two functions: (i) it can highlight each region for ten different segments; and (ii) it can adjust intensity of segmentation to allow basic study of brain medicine. Two types of benefits are reported as follows. Firstly, all the medical student participants are reported to have 20% improvement in their learning satisfaction. Secondly, 100% of volunteer participants are reported to have positive learning experience
A proposed case for the cloud software engineering in security
This paper presents Cloud Software Engineering in Security (CSES) proposal that combines the benefits from each of good software engineering process and security. While other literature does not provide a proposal for Cloud security as yet, we use Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) to illustrate the concept of CSES from its design, implementation and test phases. BPMN can be used to raise alarm for protecting Cloud security in a real case scenario in real-time. Results from BPMN simulations show that a long execution time of 60 hours is required to protect real-time security of 2 petabytes (PB). When data is not in use, BPMN simulations show that the execution time for all data security rapidly falls off. We demonstrate a proposal to deal with Cloud security and aim to improve its current performance for Big Data
Neutrino Masses in a 5D TeV Unification Model
We study the generation of neutrino masses in the electroweak
unified theory in spacetime. By appropriate
orbifolding, the bulk symmetry is broken into
at one of the fixed points, where the quarks reside. The leptons form
triplets, localized at the other symmetric fixed point. The fermion masses
arise from the bulk Higgs sector containing a triplet and an anti-sextet. We
construct neutrino Majorana masses via 1-loop quantum corrections by adding a
parity odd bulk triplet scalar. No right-handed neutrino is needed. The
neutrino mass matrix is of the inverted hierarchy type. We show that the model
can easily accommodate the bi-large mixing angle solution favored by the recent
neutrino experiments without much fine tuning of parameters. The constraints
from \mu\ra 3e transition and neutrinoless double beta decays are discussed.Comment: 14 pages, 4 figure
Hadronic production of the -wave excited -states ()
Adopting the complete approach of the perturbative QCD (pQCD)
and updated parton distribution functions, we have estimated the hadronic
production of -wave excited -states (). In the estimate,
special care on the relation of the production amplitude to the derivative of
wave function at origin of the potential model is payed. For experimental
references, main uncertainties are discussed, and the total cross sections and
the distributions of the production with reasonable cuts at the energies of
Tevatron and LHC are computed and presented. The results show that -wave
production may contribute to the -meson production indirectly by a factor
about 0.5 of the direct production, and with such a big cross section, it is
worth further to study the possibility to observe the -wave production
itself experimentally.Comment: 23 pages, 9 figures, to replace for revising the misprints ec
Towards business integration as a service 2.0 (BIaaS 2.0)
Cloud Computing Business Framework (CCBF) is a framework for designing and implementation of Could Computing solutions. This proposal focuses on how CCBF can help to address linkage in Cloud Computing implementations. This leads to the development of Business Integration as a Service 1.0 (BIaaS 1.0) allowing different services, roles and functionalities to work together in a linkage-oriented framework where the outcome of one service can be input to another, without the need to translate between domains or languages. BIaaS 2.0 aims to allow automation, enhanced security, advanced risk modelling and improved collaboration between processes in BIaaS 1.0. The benefits from adopting BIaaS 1.0 and developing BIaaS 2.0 are illustrated using a case study from the University of Southampton and several collaborators including IBM US. BIaaS 2.0 can work with mainstream technologies such as scientific workflows, and the proposal and demonstration of BIaaS 2.0 will be aimed to certainly benefit industry and academia. © 2011 IEEE
The Color-Octet Contributions to -wave Meson Hadroproduction
The contributions from the color-octet components and to the or
(the -wave meson) hadroproduction are estimated in
terms of the complete calculation. As necessary inputs
in the estimate, we take the values of the octet matrix elements according to
the NRQCD scaling rules, and as a result, we have found that the contributions
to the -wave production may be the same in order of magnitude as those from
the color-singlet ones, and (). Especially, our result indicates that the
observation of the color-octet contributions to the -wave production in the
low transverse momentum region is not very far from the present experimental
capability at Tevatron and LHC.Comment: 14 pages, 4 figures (8 eps-files for figures), add references and
correct typo
- …