Resistance as Sacrifice: Towards an Ascetic Antiracism

ASCETiC: Adapting Service lifeCycle towards EfficienT Clouds

Reducing energy consumption is increasingly gaining attention in the area of Cloud computing, as means to reduce costs and improve corporate sustainability image. ASCETiC is focused on providing novel methods and tools to support software developers to optimise energy efficiency and minimise the carbon footprint resulting from developing, deploying and running software in Clouds. At the same ti...

Ascetic convolutional codes

Ascetic convolutional codes contain fewer edge labels than other convolutional codes. This is advantageous in several practical situations. Selecting an ascetic code over a non-ascetic code carries no severe penalty, in terms of trade-off of minimum distance, code rate and complexity.

Sacrifice as a predictor of marital outcomes.

We investigated the prospective associations between attitudes about sacrifice and marital outcomes in 38 married couples. Specifically, a measure of satisfaction with sacrifice was proposed to be a potent longitudinal predictor of marital adjustment and distress based on existing cross-sectional studies and also to mediate the association between commitment and marital adjustment. Results demo...

Ascetic Priests and O'briens

Resistance to enediyne antitumor antibiotics by CalC self-sacrifice.

Antibiotic self-resistance mechanisms, which include drug elimination, drug modification, target modification, and drug sequestration, contribute substantially to the growing problem of antibiotic resistance among pathogenic bacteria. Enediynes are among the most potent naturally occurring antibiotics, yet the mechanism of resistance to these toxins has remained a mystery. We characterize an en...