Surviving Autonomy

Surviving torture.

Surviving Internet Catastrophes

In this paper, we propose a new approach for designing distributed systems to survive Internet catastrophes called informed replication, and demonstrate this approach with the design and evaluation of a cooperative backup system called the Phoenix Recovery Service. Informed replication uses a model of correlated failures to exploit software diversity. The key observation that makes our approach...

Surviving Global Software Development

0 7 4 0 7 4 5 9 / 0 1 / $ 1 0 . 0 0 © 2 0 0 1 I E E E Working in a global context has its advantages, but it also has drawbacks. On the plus side, you gain time-zone effectiveness and reduced cost in various countries. However, working on a globally distributed project means operating costs for planning and managing people, along with language and cultural barriers. It also creates jealousy as ...

Surviving antioxidant supplements.

An association between healthy diet and good health has been noted since Hippocrates (460 – 377 bc) — and in fact long before (1). Our diet provides numerous vitamins and trace elements that are essential to good health. Observational studies have shown that there is a positive association between a healthy diet, especially high intake of fruits and vegetables, and delayed aging, reduced risk o...

Surviving in low oxygen

and colleagues have found that cells need a particular transcription factor to survive in the hypoxic interior of developing bones. The critical activity of hypoxia-inducible factor 1 ␣ (HIF-1 ␣), they say, is probably its induction of a glycolytic metabolism appropriate to a R HIF-1␣ prevents cell death despite hypoxia (red) in a wild-type tibia. low oxygen environment. Without this metabolic ...