An American Message

A message from the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses.

In 2001, the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses made a commitment to actively promote the creation of healthy work environments that support and foster excellence in patient care wherever acute and critical care nurses practice. This commitment is based on the Association’s dedication to optimal patient care and the recognition that the deepening nurse shortage cannot be reversed with...

SIGMA-An interactive message service for the Military Message Experiment

The increasing sophistication of military systems and decreasing time frame for making decisions make it essential to provide the military commander better quality information faster. With today's technology, messages can traverse several thousand miles in fractions of a second, but hours are lost at either end, both in entering the message into the communications system and in delivering it to...

An Extensible Message Format for Message Disposition Notifications

This memo defines a MIME content-type that may be used by a mail user agent (UA) or electronic mail gateway to report the disposition of a message after it has been sucessfully delivered to a recipient. This content-type is intended to be machine-processable. Additional message headers are also defined to permit Message Disposition Notifications (MDNs) to be requested by the sender of a message...

An Important Message Treating Cancer

An Efficient, Protected Message Interface

69 I n traditional message interfaces, high latency and processor occupancy inhibit our ability to exploit large-scale parallelism. Even though recent designs address this problem by removing OS layers from the interface, 1-5 the remaining overhead is still large. To amortize communication overhead of hundreds of cycles, programmers use messages that are hundreds to thousands of words in size. ...