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CHI
2004
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Physically large displays improve path integration in 3D virtual navigation tasks
Previous results have shown that users perform better on spatial orientation tasks involving static 2D scenes when working on physically large displays as compared to small ones. ...
Desney S. Tan, Darren Gergle, Peter Scupelli, Rand...
ICPP
2006
IEEE
14 years 4 months ago
Improving Spatial Reuse with Collision-Aware DCF in Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
—Carrier sensing is a medium access method widely adopted in wireless communication to protect data transfers from interference. For example, Distributed Coordination Function (D...
Lubo Song, Chansu Yu
BMCBI
2005
114views more  BMCBI 2005»
13 years 10 months ago
A new decoding algorithm for hidden Markov models improves the prediction of the topology of all-beta membrane proteins
Background: Structure prediction of membrane proteins is still a challenging computational problem. Hidden Markov models (HMM) have been successfully applied to the problem of pre...
Piero Fariselli, Pier Luigi Martelli, Rita Casadio
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
142views Database» more  SIGMOD 2008»
14 years 10 months ago
Cost-based variable-length-gram selection for string collections to support approximate queries efficiently
Approximate queries on a collection of strings are important in many applications such as record linkage, spell checking, and Web search, where inconsistencies and errors exist in...
Xiaochun Yang, Bin Wang, Chen Li
VLSID
2009
IEEE
96views VLSI» more  VLSID 2009»
14 years 10 months ago
Efficient Placement of Compressed Code for Parallel Decompression
Code compression is important in embedded systems design since it reduces the code size (memory requirement) and thereby improves overall area, power and performance. Existing res...
Xiaoke Qin, Prabhat Mishra