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Performance Tuning of Scientific Applications

Performance Tuning of Scientific Applications

With contributions from some of the most notable experts in the field Performance Tuning of Scientific Applications presents current research in performance analysis. The book focuses on the following areas. Performance monitoring: Describes the state of the art in hardware and software tools that are commonly used for monitoring and measuring performance and managing large quantities of data Performance analysis: Discusses modern approaches to computer performance benchmarking and presents results that offer valuable insight into these studiesPerformance modeling: Explains how researchers deduce accurate performance models from raw performance data or from other high-level characteristics of a scientific computationAutomatic performance tuning: Explores ongoing research into automatic and semi-automatic techniques for optimizing computer programs to achieve superior performance on any computer platformApplication tuning: Provides examples that show how the appropriate analysis of performance and some deft changes have resulted in extremely high performancePerformance analysis has grown into a full-fledged sophisticated field of empirical science. Describing useful research in modern performance science and engineering this book helps real-world users of parallel computer systems to better understand both the performance vagaries arising in scientific applications and the practical means for improving performance. Read about the book on HPCwire and insideHPC

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Performance Management in Healthcare From Key Performance Indicators to Balanced Scorecard

Performance Studies An Introduction

Measuring Workplace Performance

Measuring Workplace Performance

Most Fortune 1000 companies still struggle with workspace planning and design issues. They invest millions of dollars each year with the expectation that new buildings and major renovations will help transform their culture support innovation strengthen desired behaviors and increase organizational effectiveness. And let's not forget reducing costs. But there is rarely any actual measurement of the success of a new workplace against specific business or design goals (apart from cost savings). Even less often is there any ongoing measurement program to assess and improve the quality of the workplace. Measuring Workplace Performance Second Edition explores a fundamentally new way of thinking about how organizations behave and change and what this means for planning and measuring the success of the facilities that house them. This is not a planning guide or a step by step design cookbook. Rather author Michael O'Neill presents a thought-provoking biological model for thinking about organizations and workplaces describes the tools to gather information and analyze success and presents plenty of scientific case studies with hard performance and financial metrics. O'Neill addresses issues such as:What are the effects of adding flexibility into facility and workplace design in terms of improving employee and organizational performance?How do we measure the performance of facilities in terms of supporting desired behaviors (like communication collaboration) efficient business processes and other concrete performance/financial improvements?Using real-world case studies across a variety of industries O'Neill shows the types of performance measures that leading-edge companies use as well as the improvements they attain by incorporating flexibility and control into their workspaces. He uses the data from these studies to create models showing credible links between specific design features and behavioral and business process outco

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Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking

Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking

Computer and microprocessor architectures are advancing at an astounding pace. However increasing demands on performance coupled with a wide variety of specialized operating environments act to slow this pace by complicating the performance evaluation process. Carefully balancing efficiency and accuracy is key to avoid slowdowns and such a balance can be achieved with an in-depth understanding of the available evaluation methodologies. Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking outlines a variety of evaluation methods and benchmark suites considering their strengths weaknesses and when each is appropriate to use. Following a general overview of important performance analysis techniques the book surveys contemporary benchmark suites for specific areas such as Java embedded systems CPUs and Web servers. Subsequent chapters explain how to choose appropriate averages for reporting metrics and provide a detailed treatment of statistical methods including a summary of statistics how to apply statistical sampling for simulation how to apply SimPoint and a comprehensive overview of statistical simulation. The discussion then turns to benchmark subsetting methodologies and the fundamentals of analytical modeling including queuing models and Petri nets. Three chapters devoted to hardware performance counters conclude the book. Supplying abundant illustrations examples and case studies Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking offers a firm foundation in evaluation methods along with up-to-date techniques that are necessary to develop next-generation architectures.

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Nutritional Guidelines for Athletic Performance The Training Table

Nutritional Guidelines for Athletic Performance The Training Table

Knowing the basic nutrition requirements and combining them with proper training are the two most important factors for athletes to achieve peak performance levels. Nutritional Guidelines for Athletic Performance: The Training Table addresses these needs on a comprehensive basis from a training table perspective. Offering practical guidelines for practitioners and athletes the book focuses on the key macronutrients that fuel daily metabolism and exercise training and explores differing needs for various athletes and their individual goals. Topics discussed include:General principles and physiology of caloric intake for all major macronutrients and how this pertains to both active and sedentary individualsEnergy demands and nutritional requirements for strength-power athletes and elite competitors in endurance sports Protein carbohydrate fat vitamin and mineral needs of athletesThe importance of optimal fluid and hydration during exerciseHow to determine body weight for a desired body fat percentage recommended calorie consumption dietary suggestions and useful meal planning tools for a wide variety of caloric needsThe difference between energy intake and energy expenditure and how athletes can eat to build muscle lose fat and optimize performanceScientific strategies on how to time exercise and food intake to more effectively replenish glycogen increase protein synthesis and blunt protein degradationHow the physiological changes that accompany aging change nutrient needs and guidelines for older athletes on maximizing performance and maintaining healthStructuring a diet containing appropriate amounts of macronutrients (protein carbohydrates and fat) and micronutrients (vitamins and minerals) can be a daunting task. This text adequately addresses how athletes can do so in an effe | Nutritional Guidelines for Athletic Performance The Training Table

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Essentials of Performance Analysis in Sport Third edition

Essentials of Performance Analysis in Sport Third edition

The coaching process is about enhancing performance by providing feedback about the performance to the athlete or team. Researchers have shown that human observation and memory are not reliable enough to provide accurate and objective information for high-performance athletes. Objective measuring tools are necessary to enable the feedback process. These can take the form of video analysis systems post-event both biomechanical and computerised notation systems or the use of in-event systems. Essentials of Performance Analysis in Sport 3rd Edition is fully revised with updated existing chapters and the addition of 12 new chapters. It is a comprehensive and authoritative guide to this core discipline of contemporary sport science. The book offers a full description of the fundamental theory of match and performance analysis using real-world illustrative examples and data throughout. It also explores the applied contexts in which analysis can have a significant influence on performance. To this end the book has been defined by five sections. In Section 1 the background of performance analysis is explained and Section 2 discusses methodologies used in notating sport performance. Current issues of performance analysis applied research such as chance momentum theory perturbations and dynamic systems are explored in Section 3. Profiling the essential output skill in performance analysis is examined in depth in Section 4. The book’s final section offers invaluable applied information on careers available for performance analysts. With extended coverage of contemporary issues in performance analysis and contributions from leading performance analysis researchers and practitioners Essentials of Performance Analysis in Sport 3rd Edition is a complete textbook for any performance analysis course as well as an invaluable reference for sport science or sport coaching students and researchers and any coach analyst or athlete looking to develop their professional insight. | Essentials of Performance Analysis in Sport Third edition

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Choreomata Performance and Performativity after AI

Coaching for Sports Performance

Coaching for Sports Performance

Coaching for Sports Performance provides a practical overview of the many disciplines necessary to be an effective coach. Using experts from across the sports science fields this book teaches readers the core concepts in a practical easy to understand style separated into four sections. Part I explains the fundamentals of effective coaching including the development of coaching philosophies best practices for coaching effectively how athletic technique matures and what coaches can and cannot do in specific health-related situations. Part II provides practical ways to improve athletic performance where readers learn the fundamentals of biomechanics and how to use technology to analyze performance the physiological functions and adaptations to exercise how the body can be physically trained and properly fueled and mental strategies to optimize athletic outcomes. Part III introduces the business side of coaching the important responsibilities involved in sport management and practical methods for marketing as well as working with the media. Last Part IV offers specific strategies for coaching across age and skill levels. Chapters are split into youth and high school collegiate and professional athletes and the nuances of coaching each level are explained. Being called Coach is an honor but with this title comes the responsibility of being professional knowledgeable and effective. Coaching for Sports Performance provides the platform for becoming a successful coach and assisting athletes in achieving their potential. Coaching for Sports Performance provides a practical overview of the many disciplines necessary to be an effective coach.

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The Routledge Companion to Performance Practitioners

The Twenty-First Century Performance Reader

The Twenty-First Century Performance Reader

The Twenty-First Century Performance Reader combines extracts from over 70 international practitioners companies collectives and makers from the fields of Dance Theatre Music Live and Performance Art and Activism to form an essential sourcebook for students researchers and practitioners. This is the follow-on text from The Twentieth-Century Performance Reader which has been the key introductory text to all kinds of performance for over 20 years since it was first published in 1996. Contributions from new and emerging practitioners are placed alongside those of long-established individual artists and companies representing the work of this century’s leading practitioners through the voices of over 140 individuals. The contributors in this volume reflect the diverse and eclectic culture of practices that now make up the expanded field of performance and their stories reflections and working processes collectively offer a snapshot of contemporary artistic concerns. Many of the pieces have been specially commissioned for this edition and comprise a range of written forms – scholarly academic creative interviews diary entries autobiographical polemical and visual. Ideal for university students and instructors this volume’s structure and global span invites readers to compare and cross-reference significant approaches outside of the constraints and simplifications of genre encouraging cross-disciplinary understandings. For those who engage with new live and innovative approaches to performance and the interplay of radical ideas The Twenty-First Century Performance Reader is invaluable.

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Maintenance Audits Handbook A Performance Measurement Framework

Maintenance Audits Handbook A Performance Measurement Framework

Maintenance Audits Handbook: A Performance Measurement Framework explores the maintenance function and performance of an organization and outlines the key aspects required for an effective and efficient maintenance performance measurement (MPM) system. Incorporating different aspects of traditional literature and considering various frameworks on the subject it examines the auditing process as well as the use and development of maintenance metrics. It identifies different frameworks and models showcasing how MPM systems should be implemented as well as the values that are created when different frameworks are used. The book presents performance indicators within a framework that classifies and sorts according to functional and hierarchical aspects. It introduces techniques that can help determine the right set of performance indicators. It also outlines a process that combines both numerical indicators with the classical result of massive questionnaires successfully incorporating both the quantitative and qualitative aspects of maintenance performance. In addition the author provides examples of MPM frameworks that are used in organizations with condition-based vibration-based and reliability-centered maintenance. A useful handbook for students and maintenance professionals this book provides readers with an understanding of how toAlign the organizational strategy to the strategies of the maintenance functionLink the maintenance performance measures to the different hierarchies of the organization and establish effective communication between themTranslate the MPIs at operational level to the corporate level (to create value for the whole organization and its customers)Identify the weaknesses and strengths of the implemented maintenance strategyMaintenance Audits Handbook: A Performance Measurement Framework provides readers with a sound foundation for developing and measuring a comprehensive maintenance improvement strategy using qualitative and quantitative data and serves as an ideal resource for maintenance/mechanical engineers maintenance/performance/business/production managers and industry professionals involved in maintenance. | Maintenance Audits Handbook A Performance Measurement Framework

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Broadcast Announcing Worktext A Media Performance Guide

High Performance Computing Programming and Applications

High Performance Computing Programming and Applications

High Performance Computing: Programming and Applications presents techniques that address new performance issues in the programming of high performance computing (HPC) applications. Omitting tedious details the book discusses hardware architecture concepts and programming techniques that are the most pertinent to application developers for achieving high performance. Even though the text concentrates on C and Fortran the techniques described can be applied to other languages such as C++ and Java. Drawing on their experience with chips from AMD and systems interconnects and software from Cray Inc. the authors explore the problems that create bottlenecks in attaining good performance. They cover techniques that pertain to each of the three levels of parallelism: Message passing between the nodes Shared memory parallelism on the nodes or the multiple instruction multiple data (MIMD) units on the accelerator Vectorization on the inner level After discussing architectural and software challenges the book outlines a strategy for porting and optimizing an existing application to a large massively parallel processor (MPP) system. With a look toward the future it also introduces the use of general purpose graphics processing units (GPGPUs) for carrying out HPC computations. A companion website at www. hybridmulticoreoptimization. com contains all the examples from the book along with updated timing results on the latest released processors. | High Performance Computing Programming and Applications

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Tool Steels Properties and Performance

Tool Steels Properties and Performance

This handy book provides a single up-to-date source of information for increasing the life of tool steels through optimized design and manufacturing. Supplying a solid understanding of the metallurgy involved the text explains how material compositions manufacturing processes heat treatments surface hardening techniques and coatings affect tool steel properties grades and performance. It also explores real-life case studies and failure analyses offering examples of die-life parameters and hints for modifying tool steels and heat treatments during cutting or forming processes. While the book offers deep coverage of properties microstructure and manufacturing its focus is on describing the performance of each application of this special class of ferrous materials. Provides a single up-to-date source of information for increasing the life of tool steels through optimized design and manufacturing. Explains how material compositions manufacturing processes heat treatments surface hardening techniques and coatings affect tool steel properties grades and performance. Supplies a solid understanding of the metallurgy involved in tool steel manufacturing machining hot and cold working and molding. Offers examples of die-life parameters and hints for modifying tool steels and heat treatments during cutting or forming processes. Includes real-life case studies and failure analyses from the Villares Metals plant in Brazil. | Tool Steels Properties and Performance

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Physique Fitness and Performance

Physique Fitness and Performance

Totally revised and updated this second edition of the well-received Physique Fitness and Performance retains the unique integrated approach of its predecessor examining the relationship of structure to function in human performance. Far surpassing the limited focus of standard exercise and fitness books it combines the morphological study of physique relative to body structure body size and body composition with the applied interaction of muscular cardiovascular motor and metabolic system capacities abilities and skills developed and acquired through exercise and training programs. Establishing a background and history for the current prevalent interrelationships between physique and physical performance the book begins by outlining the morphological physical motor and metabolic component areas of study involved in physical training. Part One introduces the study of the structure-function relationships relating body structure size and composition to fitness and physical performance. Part Two and Part Three present an overview of the quantitative and qualitative study of physical and physiological conditioning motor learning and motor control specifically regarding the development of motor skill within general/open loop and specific/closed loop parameter guidelines. It also covers fatigue and its physiological and psychological effects on training processes. Part Four explores nutrition and the utilization of carbohydrates fats proteins water vitamins and minerals during physical training. It includes an overview of lipids lipoproteins cholesterol and atherosclerosis; dietary goals and guidelines; and risk factors relating to heart disease and obesity within health and fitness parameter guidelines. Finally extensive appendices present the pertinent figures tables and forms used in evaluation and programming. Including chapter summaries glossaries and references as well as detailed and extensive appendices for me

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Functional Materials Properties Performance and Evaluation

Expressive Conducting Movement and Performance Theory for Conductors

Expressive Conducting Movement and Performance Theory for Conductors

Expressive Conducting: Movement and Performance Theory for Conductors applies the insight of movement and performance theory to the practice of conducting offering a groundbreaking new approach to conducting. Where traditional conducting pedagogies often place emphasis on training parts of the body in isolation Expressive Conducting teaches conductors to understand their gestures as part of an interconnected system that incorporates the whole body. Rather than emphasizing learning specific patterns and gestures this book enables student and professional conductors to develop a conducting technique that is centered around expressing the themes of the music. Drawing parallels to the worlds of acting this text treats the body as the conductor’s instrument. Coaching notes derived from years of experience as a performance movement specialist offer readers approachable methods for eliminating communication barriers—both conscious and subconscious—to encourage optimal performance highlighting acting theory movement exercises and the significance of weight distribution. Unlike other conducting approaches this text understands that conducting resonates throughout the entire body and is not conveyed by the hands or baton alone. With a comprehensive consideration of the conductor’s body and movements featuring over 50 original illustrations Expressive Conducting advances strategies for improving one’s conducting skills in rehearsal and performance. Jerald Schwiebert has developed a practical language for expressive conducting. Together Schwiebert and Barr present a text that is suitable for conducting students instructors and professionals alike. | Expressive Conducting Movement and Performance Theory for Conductors

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Ultra Wideband Antennas Design Methodologies and Performance

Ultra Wideband Antennas Design Methodologies and Performance

Ultra Wideband Antennas: Design Methodologies and Performance presents the current state of the art of ultra wideband (UWB) antennas from theory specific for these radiators to guidelines for the design of omnidirectional and directional UWB antennas. Offering a comprehensive overview of the latest UWB antenna research and development this book: Discusses the developed theory for UWB antennas in frequency and time domains Delivers a brief exposition of numerical methods for electromagnetics oriented to antennas Describes solid-planar equivalence which allows flat structures to be implemented instead of volumetric antennas Examines the impedance matching phase linearity and radiation patterns as design objectives for omnidirectional and directional antennas Addresses the time domain signal analysis for UWB antennas from which the distortion phenomenon can be modeled Includes illustrative examples design equations CST MICROWAVE STUDIO® simulations and MATLAB® plot generations Compares the performance of different UWB antennas supplying useful insight into particular tendencies and unresolved problems Ultra Wideband Antennas: Design Methodologies and Performance provides a valuable reference for the scientific community as UWB antennas have a variety of applications in body area networks radar imaging spectrum monitoring electronic warfare wireless sensor networks and more. | Ultra Wideband Antennas Design Methodologies and Performance

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Reflective Cracking in Pavements Design and performance of overlay systems

Through Silicon Vias Materials Models Design and Performance

Choreographing Dirt Movement Performance and Ecology in the Anthropocene

Choreographing Dirt Movement Performance and Ecology in the Anthropocene

This book is an innovative study that places performance and dance studies in conversation with ecology by exploring the significance of dirt in performance. Focusing on a range of 20th- and 21st-century performances that include modern dance dance-theatre Butoh and everyday life this book demonstrates how the choreography of dirt makes biological geographical and cultural meaning what the author terms biogeocultography. Whether it’s the Foundling Father digging into the earth’s strata in Suzan-Lori Park’s The America Play (1994) peat hurling through the air in Pina Bausch’s The Rite of Spring (1975) dancers frantically shovelling out fistfuls of dirt in Eveoke Dance Theatre’s Las Mariposas (2010) or Butoh performers dancing with fungi in Iván-Daniel Espinosa’s Messengers Divinos (2018) each example shows how the incorporation of dirt can reveal micro-level interactions between species – like the interplay between microscopic skin bacteria and soil protozoa – and macro-level interactions – like the transformation of peat to a greenhouse gas. By demonstrating the stakes of moving dirt this book posits that performance can operate as a space to grapple with the multifaceted ecological dilemmas of the Anthropocene. This book will be of broad interest to both practitioners and researchers in theatre performance studies dance ecocriticism and the environmental humanities. | Choreographing Dirt Movement Performance and Ecology in the Anthropocene

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