Straggler synchronization is a dominant wall-clock bottleneck in synchronous wireless federated learning (FL). Under non-IID data, however, aggressively sampling only fast clients may significantly slow convergence due to statistical heterogeneity. T...
ROS 2 employs a publish–subscribe communication model widely used in robotic and distributed systems. As subscriber counts increase, system-level resource contention may influence latency behavior beyond simple message delivery costs. This stud...
The proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) devices operating in swarm-like formations—from autonomous device fleets to federated service networks—demands a computing continuum that spans edge nodes, fog gateways, and cloud back-ends. S...
GPU LDPC latency comparisons across implementations are challenging due to variations in decoder schedules, batch granularity, and timing boundaries. Batch completion was characterized for FP32-layered and flooding decoders on a GPU, considering bloc...
At 300 km/h, an end-to-end vision delay of 100 ms corresponds to 8.3 m of unobserved travel; therefore, real-time anomaly monitoring must balance sensitivity with strict tail-latency constraints at the edge. We propose a hybrid cache–retrieval...
The recent development of 3D flash memories has promoted the widespread application of SSDs in modern storage systems by providing large storage capacity and low cost. Garbage collection (GC) as a time-consuming but necessary operation in flash memor...
At racing speeds above 300 km/h (≈83 m/s), hazard awareness becomes a vehicular-communications problem: 100 ms already correspond to about 8.3 m of blind travel before an alert can influence braking, line choice, or torque delivery. Cloud-only...
Background: Electroacupuncture (EA) tolerance is a gradual decline in EA antinociception because of its repeated or prolonged use. This study aims to explore the role of spinal glutamate transporters (GTs) in EA tolerance (EAT). Methods: Rats were tr...
Artificial intelligence (AI)-native sixth-generation (6G) networks are expected to rely on agents in different administrative domains that coordinate policies, model versions and access rights through shared state. A permissioned ledger can anchor th...
While an SSD (Solid State Drive) has been widely used for storage in many computing systems due to its small average latency, how to provide timing guarantees of a delay-sensitive (real-time) task on a real-time system equipped with an SSD has not be...
Zoned Namespace (ZNS) SSDs address the disadvantages that come from supporting the block interface within conventional SSDs, granting more control over data management to host systems, while also relieving heavy duties from device firmware. However,...
Kubernetes Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) primarily relies on resource-based metrics, such as CPU utilization, which are poorly suited to capturing the latency variability of AI inference workloads. In this paper, we propose a custom-metric-driven a...
Multi-tenancy is fundamental to cloud storage, but efficient resource sharing with predictable performance remains challenging because SSD internals are opaque and shared-resource contention increases tail latency. As a result, to meet latency target...
Service providers need to meet their service level objectives (SLOs) to ensure better client experiences. Predicting tail sojourn times of applications is an essential step to combat long tail latency. Therefore, as an attempt to further unravel the...
Schiff bases are a class of organic compounds with azomethine moiety, exhibiting a wide range of biological potentials. In this research, six chiral Schiff bases, three ‘S’ series (H1–H3) and three ‘R’ series (H4–H...
Internet of Things (IoT) devices, particularly those used for sensor networks, are often latency-sensitive devices. The topology of the sensor network largely depends on the overall system application. Various configurations include linear, star, hie...
In this paper, we present very recent results regarding the latency characterization of a novel bidirectional visible light communication (VLC) system for vehicular applications, which could be relevant in intelligent transportation system (ITS) safe...
Accurate prediction of maximum flow latency is crucial for ensuring the efficient transport of latency-sensitive fronthaul traffic in packet-switched Xhaul networks while maintaining the reliable operation of 5G and beyond Radio Access Networks (RANs...
The concept of “all cores are created equal” has been popular for several decades due to its simplicity and effectiveness in CPU (Central Processing Unit) design. The more cores the CPU has, the higher performance the host owns and the hi...
Parallel discrete-event simulation (PDES) of register-transfer-level (RTL) designs on multi-socket NUMA platforms demand dynamic load balancing to mitigate barrier-induced tail latency. However, the ultra-fine event granularity of RTL simulation make...
Medicinal plants hold a significant place as alternative treatments available for inflammatory diseases, with many phytoconstituents being frequently tested in vitro for their biological activities. In the current study, we investigated the in vivo a...
The application of Internet of Things (IoT) technology to Digital Twin (DT) in smart manufacturing has opened significant opportunities for real-time monitoring, predictive maintenance, and closed-loop control; however, the inherent latency that exis...
NAND flash memory has been widely adopted as the primary data storage medium in data centers. However, the inherent characteristic of out-of-place updates in NAND flash necessitates garbage collection (GC) operations on NAND flash-based solid-state d...
Neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR)-based therapeutics are sought as a potential alternative strategy to opioids for pain management. In this study, we examine the antinociceptive effects of 3-(2-chlorophenyl)-5-(5-methyl-1-(piperidin-4...
The inclusion of life history as a possible influential factor is pivotal in studies on behavior, welfare, and cognition. Shelter dogs have usually experienced a life involving poor social interactions with humans. Thus, we aimed to investigate the b...
In cloud computing, multi-tenant shared storage is widely used for efficiency. ZNS SSDs have become a popular choice due to their high throughput and low latency. However, they still face challenges: the zone structure is not exposed to tenants, maki...
The present study aimed to investigate the anti-inflammatory and anti-nociceptive potential of a hydroethanolic extract of Tamarindus indica L. leaves (HTI) along with its possible mode of action. The anti-inflammatory activity of HTI was estimated b...
Analgesic drugs in a combination-form can achieve greater efficacy with lesser side effects compared to either drug alone. The combination of drugs acting at different targets or mechanisms of action has been recognized as an alternative approach for...
Responsiveness—the speed at which a text-to-speech (TTS) system produces audible output—is critical for real-time voice assistants yet has received far less attention than perceptual quality metrics. Existing evaluations often touch on la...
This work investigates a new erase scheme in NAND flash memory to improve the lifetime and performance of modern solid-state drives (SSDs). In NAND flash memory, an erase operation applies a high voltage (e.g., >20 V) to flash cells for a long tim...
The present study was conducted to evaluate the analgesic potential of the new triamilide macrolide antibiotic, tulathromycin, at 20 and 40 mg/kg of body weight (BW), subcutaneously against acute pain in mice. Acute pain was induced either chemically...
Shipboard gateways send many sensor channels to shore subscribers with different needs over narrow, intermittent links, yet how Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) topic structure, broker placement, Quality of Service (QoS), publishing rate, a...
The low-altitude airspace of bird flocks is gradually shared by unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), posing safety risks that necessitate accurate trajectory forecasting. However, existing vision-based methods often treat trajectory prediction and UAV de...
The automated digitization of handwritten electoral results is critical for ensuring transparency and speed in democratic processes. While recurrent sequence-to-sequence models (e.g., CRNN+CTC) achieve high accuracy, they inherently violate the stric...
Pipelines that satisfy k-anonymity alone remain vulnerable to attribute disclosure under skewed sensitive attributes. We studied real-time anonymization of high-throughput data streams under strict delay budgets (β). We jointly enforced k-anonym...
Mating success of artificially reared males of the olive fruit fly is essential for genetic control techniques for this pest. We studied the mating competition between males from a laboratory-adapted population reared with an artificial diet and wild...
The quantification of structural resilience and sub-percentile tail risk represents a major challenge across both corporate financial engineering and modern industrial logistics. Traditional aggregation architectures, such as linear risk matrices and...
Resource allocation in sixth-generation (6G) networks must meet throughput, latency, and reliability targets while network conditions keep changing. At the same time, the telemetry needed to train good models is distributed across many devices and ed...
Across all species, communication implies that an emitter sends signals to a receiver, through one or more channels. Cats can integrate visual and auditory signals sent by humans and modulate their behaviour according to the valence of the emotion pe...
Despite the availability of the current drug arsenal for pain management, there is still a clinical need to identify new, more effective, and safer analgesics. Based on our earlier study, newly synthesized 1,3,4-oxadiazole derivatives of pyrrolo[3,4-...
Differentiated I/O services for applications with their own requirements are very important for user satisfaction. Nonvolatile memory express (NVMe) solid-state drive (SSD) architecture can improve the I/O bandwidth with its numerous submission queue...
Background/Objectives: Mental disorders pose a significant public health challenge, affecting millions worldwide. Given the limitations of current therapies, many patients experience inadequate responses and adverse effects. Intermittent hypoxia (IH)...
Background: Chronic pain poses a major global health burden, often inadequately managed by conventional analgesics due to limited efficacy and side effects. In this context, plant-based therapies offer a promising alternative. This study aimed to eva...
End-to-end autonomous driving remains fragile in long-tail scenarios, while incorporating vision-language models (VLMs) introduces substantial deliberation latency that cannot interfere with the real-time planning loop. We present ThinkDrive, a dual-...
Silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) are widely used commercially due to their antimicrobial effects. Little is known about the effect of AgNPs on neural transmission and pain response. The aim of this study was to assess the anti-nociceptive activity of AgN...
Efficient metadata and page management are essential for sustaining database performance on modern flash-based storage. However, conventional SQLite configurations—rollback journal and WAL—often trigger excessive small writes and frequent...
Background and objectives: Worldwide, approximately 500 million people suffer from diabetes and at least 50% of these people develop neuropathy. Currently, therapeutic strategies for reducing diabetic neuropathy (DN)-associated pain are limited and h...
Bovine herpesvirus type 1 (BoHV-1) establishes lifelong latency in trigeminal ganglionic (TG) neurons following intranasal and ocular infection in cattle. Periodically, the latent virus reactivates in the TG due to stress and is transported anterogra...
The genus Glaucium (Papaveraceae), comprising approximately 30 species, is widely distributed across the Mediterranean region, Europe, North Africa, and Central and Southwest Asia. In the flora of Türkiye, the genus is represented by 11 taxa and...
Vortioxetine is a multimodal antidepressant drug that affects several brain neurochemicals and has the potential to induce various pharmacological effects on the central nervous system. Therefore, we investigated the centrally mediated analgesic effi...
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