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The computing industry is approaching a strategic point, where a number of changes and limits are coming together at the same time, such as the eventual end of the exponential growth of chip density, and the lack of high availability, fault-tolerance, and maintainability of information technology and computing systems. In the next 10 to 20 years, we will see a major slowdown in the rate of increase in transistor density on the chip due to fundamental physical limitations. The end of the era of exponential growth in transistors (basically Moore's Law) will force a major restructuring of the semiconductor industry and a complete rethinking of ways of designing high-performance computing systems. This is actually very significant considering that up to now the major observed performance improvements of a single-chip building block have come from increased transistor density (i.e., parallelism and the use of parallel processing techniques) and little from clock rate improvements.
Another change is dictated by the number and complexity of today's computers and devices. Computer systems have become so large, complex, and fast and have assumed so many important tasks that when things go wrong (and things will go wrong), it is often very hard to implement fixes fast enough to avoid mission-critical problems. The growing torrent of data and the increasing number of connected computers and devices generated by the information technology explosion have added to the problem. This change has spun a revolution in computer design where the emphasis is on self-healing and self-monitoring systems that can detect problems and continue to operate by fixing or by bypassing malfunctions without human intervention. This new paradigm is called autonomous computing by some and recovery-oriented computing by others. Current computer systems are very bad at this since they are based on a technology and computational models which are fault-intolerant, require high precision, extensive global communication, and are globally synchronized. Researchers are actively exploring possible alternative technologies.
Computing systems inspired by biological systems, Biologically-Based Computing (BBC), are emerging as one possible alternative for tackling the fundamental problems mentioned above. Here we define BBC as the use of biology or biological processes as metaphor in developing new Information Technology-oriented and computing paradigms where information is processed, stored, and transported using natural biological systems. This includes the development of architectures and algorithms, as well as hardware inspired by biological systems. This is in contrast to biocomputing or bioinformatics where computer science and engineering concepts are used to further explore biology. The complex interactions between living cells and their architecture are emerging as important factors in driving the behavior of complex biological systems. Of particular relevance is the problem of emerging behavior of multicellular structures in which cell-level functions (intracellular pathways) integrate with the architecture through cell-to-cell interactions. Multicellular signaling inherently combines dynamical and structural complexity. More specifically, calcium signaling resulting from the dynamics of endoplasmic reticulae and cell-to-cell communication via gap junctions play a critical role in the behavior of structures composed of endothelial cells.
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To synergistically integrate the fields of multicellular signaling, engineered multicellular topologies, and fault tolerant cellular communication systems to develop novel theoretical and experimental methods to advance the understanding and control of calcium signaling in engineered networks of endothelial cells;
To shed light on the poorly understood phenomenon of cross-level interactions in complex and dynamic multicellular structures;
To extend this understanding and the control of multi-cellular signaling to initiate a paradigm shift in the design of fault-tolerant cellular communication systems based on an all-biological platform.
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Knee replacements soar among US older folks
Wednesday - 9/26/2012, 10:49am EDT
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CHICAGO (AP) - Just like age-defying baby boomers, older folks have seen a surge in knee replacement surgeries, driven partly by a desire to stay active and by joint-damaging obesity.
The findings are in a study of more than 3 million Medicare patients, aged 65 and older, who got artificial knees from 1991 through 2010. Almost 10 percent of the operations were redos _ replacing worn-out artificial joints.
The number of initial knee-replacement surgeries each year on these older patients more than doubled during that time, rising to nearly 244,000 in 2010. Patients were in their mid-70s on average when they had surgery; that age edged up slightly during the study.
The aging population and rising numbers of Medicare enrollees contributed to the increase. But the per capita rate also increased, from about 3 surgeries per 10,000 enrollees in 1991 to 5 per 10,000 in 2010.
"There's a huge percentage of older adults who are living longer and want to be active," and knee replacement surgery is very effective, said lead author Dr. Peter Cram, an associate professor of internal medicine at the University of Iowa.
The study appears in Wednesday's Journal of the American Medical Association.
The pace of growth slowed in more recent years _ possibly because increasing numbers of younger adults have also been getting artificial knees, which typically last 15 to 20 years. The troubled economy may also have slowed demand for an operation that costs about $15,000, the study authors said.
About 600,000 knee replacement surgeries are done each year nationwide on adults of all ages, costing a total of $9 billion, the authors said. A journal editorial says measures are needed to control costs of these operations, noting that demand has been projected to rise to as many as almost 4 million knee operations annually by 2030.
Obese older patient getting their first operations accounted for almost 12 percent, up from 4 percent. The rate was about the same in those getting redos. Obesity takes a toll on joints and can contribute to arthritis, a leading reason for knee replacement surgery.
The average hospital stay dropped from almost eight days to 3 1/2 days, but many patients were sent to rehab centers, mostly outpatient centers in the most recent years. Readmission rates after first and second operations increased in recent years for reasons including infections and surgery complications.
The results suggest that shortening hospital stays doesn't always achieve the goal of reducing costs, since readmissions increased _ a trend seen with other types of surgeries and illnesses.
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Forum editorial: As bills go, this one is vacuousA gaggle of "constitutional scholars" in the North Dakota Legislature aims to pass gun-related laws that trump federal law. Well, they certainly can pass a law. But their effort is akin to outlawing sub-zero temperatures in January.
A House bill would forbid state law enforcement personnel from assisting federal officials in enforcement and prosecution of new federal gun laws. Introduced by Rep. Roscoe Streyle, R-Minot, and co-sponsored by several other Republican lawmakers, including Fargo's Rep. Bette Grande, the legislation is more heat than light. It's one of those all-too-common stunts designed specifically to reinforce the anti-Washington sentiment that animates too many state legislators. It's fashionable in their political circles, but it is, nevertheless, hypocritical and ultimately unproductive.
Streyle says his bill is not anti-law enforcement, but it is. Local and state officers, many of whom work closely with federal officials to stem crime in the state, say privately and publicly that the proposal could hamstring those efforts. It's safe to assume the men and women on the front lines of public safety in North Dakota
have a better handle on the situation than do Streyle and his
The constitutional question is pivotal. Apparently sponsors of the silly bill are not aware of a provision in the U.S. Constitution, the "Supremacy Clause" of Article VI, paragraph 2, which establishes that federal law generally takes precedence over state law and state constitutions. The doctrine has been tested many times, and the federal position has always prevailed. The Supremacy Clause ties into the theory of nullification, whereby a state says it has the right to nullify, or invalidate, a federal law the state concludes is unconstitutional. Again, nullification has been rejected repeatedly by federal courts.
The House bill is a waste of the Legislature's time. Most lawmakers know it. North Dakota police officials, legal experts and judges know the law is a tilt at a windmill. It's foolish in the extreme not only because it would not stand constitutional scrutiny but also because it insults joint local, state and federal law enforcement efforts that have been so successful over the years – and will be more important as the state's population grows and crime infests the Oil Patch.
Even the Legislature's pre-eminent constitutional scholars, such as they are, should be able to grasp that new reality.
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Farmer and part-owner Susie Wilson watches over them with a smile.
I m sort of a maternal person naturally and I feel very, attached to each one of these plants, she said.
Her farm, called Wow Weed, features 2000 plants. It's located in Klickitat County in an industrial area.
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As you see the plants are doing a lot better. They look beautiful really. They re just beautiful! Wilson said, although she admitted it's strange for her to look over the field of legally growing marijuana.
Its, its very weird, Wilson said. I never thought I d see this in my lifetime. And you know, I never thought I d be able to do this.
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I would like to throw my phone away right now! And I feel really bad for all the retailers that don t have product but want to open their doors but there s nothing for them to sell, she said.
Wilson blames state regulators who, she says, did not let producers begin growing pot until mid-April. It takes roughly three months to finish the harvest, the three-month mark is next week.
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Greenfield police officer C.W. Murnan waits in the lunch line along with his son, Will, a first-grader at J.B. Stephens. Murnan is one of the school resource officers who provides a security presence in the schools throughout the Greenfield-Central district. All four public school districts have used state grants to upgrade security in their buildings. (Tom Russo / Daily Reporter)
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This is made from ocean jasper and although the earrings look huge and heavy to wear they are not, heavy that is. Large they are but I found them quite comfortable (surprisingly!). I made the set to wear with jeans. The necklace is 16 1/2" long with an extender chain of 3", the earrings are 1 1/2 " long.
Components:Ocean Jasper, Madagascar rose quartz, SS beads and clasp, silver plated chain, 49str beading wire
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This is beautiful Cookie. I love this set.
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The new program will officially open with a Queens Chamber of Commerce business card exchange. Following this event, a seminar entitled "Dynamic Trends in the Real Estate Market," and featuring keynote speakers Joe Mattone Sr., Chairman and CEO of MattoneGroup Limited, Robert Delitsky, Senior, Director of Holiday, Fenoglio, and Flower L.P., and Al Pennisi, Senior Partner of Pennisi, Daniels and Norelli will take place. George Rozansky, Vice President of ATCO Properties and Management, will moderate this seminar; designed to focus on development trends, financing trends, and residential and legal trends in the market.
"The real estate community is helping us to shape this academy, with an active steering committee of real estate professionals and Queens Chamber of Commerce representatives. We will also appoint a director from the real estate community as well as an advisory board to guide the development of this Academy," said Carla Visser, acting Executive Director of Continuing Education and Business Development.
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After Salman Rushdie published The Satanic Verses, religious "scholars" doubted whether the Ayatollah Khomeini had the right to order his murder. They had no liberal qualms about executing a writer for subjecting religion to imaginative scrutiny. They believed that blasphemers and apostates must die as their religion insisted. But only if they were citizens of an Islamic state. As Rushdie was living in London in 1989, a free man in a free country, the clerics concluded that religious law did not apply to him.
The Rushdie controversy was the Dreyfus affair of the late 20th century. It established today's dividing lines between the secular and the authoritarian, between those who were willing to defend freedom of thought and inquiry and those who wanted to censor and self-censor to keep fanatics happy. We can gauge how low we have sunk by remembering that at the start of the battle 23 years ago there was a tiny regard for the forms of legality, even among those who were otherwise happy to condemn free thinkers to death. However brutal they were, they respected their version of due process.
The Islamist murders first of Salmaan Taseer and then of Shahbaz Bhatti show that what tiny scruples blood-soaked men possessed vanished long ago. The best way to describe the terror which is reducing Pakistani liberals to silence is to enumerate what the assassins did not allege. They did not say that Taseer and Bhatti must die because they were apostates – or, to put that "crime" in plain language, because they were adults who decided they no longer believed in the Muslim god. Taseer had not renounced Islam. Bhatti could not renounce it as he was the bravest Christian in Pakistan, who campaigned for equal rights for persecuted minorities with the dignity and physical courage of a modern Martin Luther King.
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Evans retired in 1979. His successor, former Democratic Rep. Ray Kogovsek, recalled Evans as a gracious host who would invite visiting Coloradans to his home in Washington for meals cooked by his wife, Eleanor.
Kogovsek said that when he first arrived in Washington, Evans "met us at the airport and put us up in his home for a week while I got my feet on the ground.
"He didn't have to do that," Kogovsek told The Pueblo Chieftain.
Evans retired rather than face Kogovsek in a Democratic primary contest.
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Marc "Animal" MacYoung (born in Los Angeles, California) is an American author, lecturer and martial artist. Initially known best for his street-violence survival books, he later went on to write personal safety / self-defense books and make instructional videos. MacYoung is considered to be one of the pioneers of reality-based self-defense.[1][2] He has studied numerous martial arts since the age of ten, including Wing Chun, Eskrima, Silat, Karate, and Baguazhang. MacYoung administers several self-defense programs for the general public and has taught law at law-enforcement agencies and military sites around the world.[1]
MacYoung was born in Los Angeles, and spent a majority of his childhood in the Los Angeles area. By his own account, he spent his youth in situational poverty and ethnic diversity. He gained his knowledge of crime and violence on the streets of Los Angeles. He was first shot when he was fourteen. He later worked as the warden of a correctional institute, bodyguard, bouncer, security, all of which put his life into danger. He wrote his first book Cheap Shots Ambushes and other Lessons, published by Paladin Press, in 1989. He later wrote thirteen more books and produced five instructional videos on personal safety / self-defense.
MacYoung worked set construction, set dressing, swing gang, lead man, props and FX on several films such as The Hanoi Hilton, Rush Week, Limit Up, Breaking the Rules, Wicked Stepmother, Best of the Best, Seedpeople, Syngenor, Death Warrant and Bad Channels.
In 2009 MacYoung teamed up with Rory Miller, author of Meditations on Violence (2008), Violence: A Writer's Guide (2010) and Facing Violence (2011). Based on over five decades combined experience confronting violent felons, intoxicated and deranged individuals and other dangerous people they developed Conflict Communications. Originally designed for police to de-escalate situations from turning violent, they've expanded the same concepts into conflict resolution and management for business and personal relationships.
MacYoung currently resides in Colorado where he and his wife, Dianna Gordon, developed and maintain his No Nonsense Self Defense, a website which covers a wide range of violence-prevention and criminal psychology topics.
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After years of protests and an unsuccessful legal challenge, architect Frank Gehry has pulled out of a project to build a Jerusalem counterpart to the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Museum of Tolerance that is slated to stand on a site that was once part of an ancient Muslim cemetery.
"We are no longer involved in it," said Craig Webb, the design partner in charge of the project for the firm of Gehry Partners. He said the Simon Wiesenthal Center, which opened its original Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles in 1993, no longer had the right to use Gehry's design and was considering alternatives. The center's website currently reads "please check back soon" under a page devoted to the Jerusalem initiative. As the blogger Philip Weiss noted last week, all references to Gehry and images of the $250 million project have been removed from the site.
Gehry's withdrawal is but the latest in a series of obstacles to have come in the project's way. Sheikh Raed Salah, a leader of Israel's Islamic Movement, has charged that the construction would desecrate an Islamic holy site and, together with Jerusalem Arab families whose ancestors are buried in the Mamilla Cemetery, he petitioned the Israeli Supreme Court to block it.
But in November 2008, the high court gave the go-ahead for construction, arguing that no objections were raised in 1960 when a parking lot was placed over a small part of the cemetery, which was in continuous use since at least the 13th century up to the early 20th. Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat has given the project his full support—"I don't see any problem with the site, it's a non-issue," he said in an interview last August—and municipal authorities have awarded the project all the necessary construction permits.
Israeli scholars, cultural figures, Orthodox leaders including Knesset member Rabbi Meir Porush, and American rabbis have joined in vehemently opposing the museum, along with a group of leading British architects who signed a petition condemning the proposed museum as a "blow to peaceful co-existence" in the city. Jerusalem's former deputy mayor, Meron Benvenisti, has denounced it as "so hallucinatory, so irrelevant, so foreign, so megalomaniac."
The Central Conference of American Rabbis, an umbrella group representing some 1,500 Reform rabbis, has urged the Wiesenthal Center to find an alternative location to the three-acre site in downtown Western Jerusalem. "There is something profoundly disturbing about the idea of putting a Jewish Museum of Tolerance on a plot of land where Muslims have been burying their dead for most of the last 800 years," wrote Rabbi Eric Yoffie, president of the Union for Reform Judaism.
Schwarzenegger, Hier, and Uri Lupolianski, then mayor of Jerusalem, at the groundbreaking ceremony for the Museum of Tolerance in Jerusalem
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Shimon Shamir, a former Israeli ambassador to Egypt and Jordan who now heads the Institute for Diplomacy and Regional Cooperation at Tel Aviv University, said he met with Gehry in Los Angeles two years ago in a bid to persuade him to withdraw. "I explained what a big mistake it was," Shamir said by phone from Tel Aviv. "I hope it will never be built."
Webb, Gehry's partner, would not say why his Los Angeles-based firm ended its involvement, saying only, "it is politically very sensitive." Gehry himself was not available for comment, nor was Rabbi Marvin Hier, founder and dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center.
The grandiose design, which was to be crafted from a gaudy, futuristic mix of titanium, glass and stone, would hardly have ranked among Gehry's finest creations. Along with Santiago Calatrava's lyre-shaped light railway bridge completed in May 2008, the Gehry scheme sparked furor among those who charge that it injects inappropriate architectural elements into Jerusalem's stone-faced, historic cityscape. Esther Zandberg, architecture critic for Ha'aretz, called it an "unnecessary and irreversible eyesore."
Hier has long championed the project, saying that the only part of the graveyard that would be used for the museum has already been turned into a parking lot. The Wiesenthal Center further argued that in the 1920s Muslim authorities in Jerusalem authorized the removal of bones from the same cemetery to allow the construction of the Palace Hotel. But this claim has been disputed by the former rector of Hebrew University, Yehoshua Ben-Arieh, a leading expert on Jerusalem's geographical history.
In addition to the uproar about both the design and the site, many Israelis have questioned whether the Wiesenthal Center could effectively transfer to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict the sort of exhibitions and diversity training operations that it currently runs at the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles and a separate New York Tolerance Center.
A lavish groundbreaking ceremony was held in 2004 where Gehry, who was originally named Goldberg but changed his name in adulthood, was joined by Benjamin Netanyahu and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Citing the "darkness that pervades the Middle East," Schwarzenegger predicted that "this building will be a candle to guide us."
Gehry, the architect of the Guggenheim in Bilbao and the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, told The New York Times soon afterward that the Jerusalem project awakened memories of his Jewish upbringing.
But controversy flared two years later when bones were uncovered at the site. Today, construction hoardings surround a quiet plot.
Michael Z. Wise is a contributing editor at Travel + Leisure magazine and has written on cultural topics for The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times and ARTnews.
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To spark your creativity today, browse the world of one of today's leading color mavens, Tricia Guild. It's a trip fantastic. These images are from her new Spring collection, Oriental Garden and Essentials. Delish! I'm not a fan of all the furnishings and flooring, but the textiles and wallpaper patterns are bold and fresh.
I think my favorite is the bottom image, far right. At least the wallpaper. That blue and white room pattern makes me feel energetic and happy. I'd have to add some warmth to the room though, either through hardwood floors or a wood credenza. I don't like the black tulip chair. The white parsons table is nice, I'd keep that.
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Print + Pattern blogged about Villa Nova out of the UK and since I found some of their images to be a source of inspiration (along with a mega dose of color, refreshing), I thought I'd post a bit of beauty for you to enjoy. I found these rooms to be so typical English, do you? I love the bold, patterned drapes – those take courage, don't they?!? And check out the pink spaces. Imagine having the guts to go all out like that and create a pink living room? I am in awe when I see interiors that have such a strong color palette. Sometimes I think I'm going over the edge incorporating teal or pear into my own space, but then I look at how the English, German, and Dutch use color and I sit back and think of how I may be a bit more fearful of color than I care to admit to. Maybe I'm a color wuss.
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I really enjoyed the feature in Real Simple on mixing florals with patterns; I think they nailed it when they said, "Mix them with colorful stripes, polka dots, and gingham checks in complementary tones." That really sums up the process, the key word being 'complementary'.
Many fear the process of mixing various patterns and prints in a room. Layering is actually quite painless. Grab a color wheel and a good book on color combinations, and/or take a color theory class at your local art school. Introducing yourself to new ideas via classroom instruction enhances your life in so many ways, especially in the cold months, it helps fight creative stagnation and feelings of depression. You'll also make new friends and tap into parts of yourself you never knew existed.
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What color makes you feel calm, peaceful, and serene? I?m betting for many of you, it is the color blue. Something embedded deep within our psyche is drawn to it. It represents what we cannot live without: air and water. Blue makes us think of the ocean and the sky, ever ebbing and flowing, limitless and ethereal.
Outside, your world might look cold, grey and uninviting, like this:
You can still get that feeling of 'a perfect summer day at the shore' inside your house by using a palette of blues, like this:
The "Beachy Keen" blues are serene, tranquil, and dependable. Try a splash of powder blue on your walls (or ceiling!), a soft blue-grey striped rug, or a cobalt blown glass vase. Mix it up with blues carrying red undertones, like periwinkle, and green undertones, like aqua.
A word of caution about the blues – too much of this hue can appear cold, sterile, or depressing. Avoid this by balancing your blue with a touch of warmth from the other side of the color spectrum. This can easily be accomplished by adding punch with orange art, colorful Mediterranean tiles, wicker or wood furniture.
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KORAPUT: Panchayatraj Extended to Schedule area Act (PESA) has failed to ensure grassroots level planning in Koraput district, said, Damodar Jani , president ,
Zilla Adivasi Sangh at Koraput today. While the Act after being passed by the Central Government in 1996 with a provision for conducting separate palli sabha (village meeting) in each hamlet in schedule area to provide an opportunity to the villages to make a plan for the village at the lowest level in the panchayatraj system, no such steps were taken in the district, he alleged.
Moreover in line with the Central Act, amendments were made in the Orissa Panchayat and other relevant Acts by the State Government in 1997 eliminating any scope for conducting palli sabha in the hamlets in schedule area in Orissa, thus contravening the spirit of the provision of the Central Act, Dimu Hikoka, Secretary of the Sangh said.
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The emergence of the deep Web has given a new connotation to the concept of ranking database query results. Earlier approaches for ranking either resorted to analyzing frequencies of database values and query logs or establishing user profiles. In contrast, an integrated approach, based on the notion of a similarity model, for holistically supporting user- and query-dependent ranking has been recently proposed (Telang et al. in IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE), 2011). An important component of this framework is a workload consisting of ranking functions, wherein each function represents an individual user's preferences towards the results of a specific query. At the time of answering a query for which no prior ranking function exists, the similarity model is employed, and is expected to ensure a good quality of ranking as long as a ranking function for a very similar user-query pair exists in this workload.
In this paper, we address the problem of determining an appropriate set of user-query pairs to form a workload of ranking functions to support user- and query-dependent ranking for Web databases. We propose a novel metric, termed workload goodness, that quantifies the notion of a "good" workload into an absolute value. The process of finding such a workload of optimal goodness is a combinatorially explosive problem; therefore, we propose a heuristic solution, and advance three approaches for determining an acceptable workload, in a static as well as a dynamic environment. We discuss the effectiveness of our proposal analytically as well as experimentally over two Web databases.
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- Personalized ranking in web databases: establishing and utilizing an appropriate workload
- Journal
Distributed and Parallel Databases
Volume 31, Issue 1 , pp 47-70
- Cover Date
- 2013-03-01
- 10.1007/s10619-012-7106-2
- Print ISSN
- 0926-8782
- Online ISSN
- 1573-7578
- Publisher
- Springer US
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- Topics
- Keywords
- Ranking
- Web databases
- Similarity model
- Workload
- Industry Sectors
- Authors
- Aditya Telang (1)
- Sharma Chakravarthy (1)
- Chengkai Li (1)
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- 1. Dept. of Comp. Sci. & Engg., The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, TX, USA


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- Single room
- Semidouble Room Bed120cm 11sqm Smoking
- Twin room
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At a glance
Key facts
Hotel size
- This hotel has 706 rooms
- This hotel is arranged over 10 floors
- Check-in time starts at 3 PM
- Check-out time is 11 AM
- Express check-in/out
Required at check in
- Credit card or cash deposit required
- Government-issued photo ID required
Travelling with others
- No pets or service animals allowed
- Free WiFi in public areas
- Free wired Internet access in rooms
- Self parking *
- Accessible parking
Other information
- Smoke-free property
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In the hotel
- Buffet breakfast (surcharge)
- Restaurant
- Number of spa tubs - 3
- Number of meeting rooms - 4
- Conference space
- Meeting rooms
- 24-hour front desk
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Laundry facilities
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Number of buildings/towers - 1
- Year Built 2009
- Elevator/lift
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Disabled parking
- Braille or raised signage
- Accessible bathroom
- In-room accessibility
In the room
- Air conditioning
- Bathrobes
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Private bathroom
- Shower/tub combination
- Bidet
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Digital TV channels
- Desk
- Free newspaper
- Free wired high-speed Internet
- Phone
- Refrigerator
- Microwave (on request)
- Daily housekeeping
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Special features
DiningLa Veranda - This restaurant serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
APA Hotel Tokyo-Shiomi-Ekimae, Tokyo's small print
Early check-in and late check-out fees are charged on an hourly basis. Please request check-in and check-out times when making the reservation. Contact information can be found on the reservation confirmation received after booking.
The Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare requires all international visitors to submit their passport number and nationality when registering at any lodging facility (inns, hotels, motels, etc. ). Additionally, lodging proprietors are required to photocopy passports for all registering guests and keep the photocopy on file.
Only registered guests are allowed in the guestrooms.
Optional extras
Early check-in can be arranged for an extra charge of JPY 1000
Late check-out can be arranged for an extra charge of JPY 1000
Self parking costs JPY 1500 per night
Buffet breakfast is offered for an extra charge of JPY 1600 per person (approximately)
We have included all charges provided to us by this hotel. However, charges can vary, for example, based on length of stay or the room you book.


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