Applications typically have several potential sources of parallelism, and in choosing a particular parallelization, the programmer must balance the beneets of each source of parallelism with the corresponding overhead. The tradeoos are often diicult to analyze, as they may depend on the hardware architecture, software environment, input data, and properties of the algorithm. An example of this ...

Our recent Veterans Administration Cooperative Study--involving 683 hypertensive male patients--showed that a diuretic was more effective than a beta blocker in controlling hypertension in most respects. In addition, in this study we failed to find evidence that thiazide-induced hypokalemia was associated with increased evidence of cardiac arrhythmias in patients without overt heart disease. We...

In automated negotiation systems consisting of self-interested agents, contracts have traditionally been binding. Such contracts do not allow agents to eeciently accommodate future events. Game theory has proposed contingency contracts to solve this problem. Among computational agents, contingency contracts are often impractical due to large numbers of interdependent and unanticipated future ev...

iv 1 Industrial Communication 1 1.1 Automation Pyramid . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 1.2 Fieldbuses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 1.3 Industrial Ethernet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 1.3.1 Ethernet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 1.3.2 Other layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 1.3.3 Solutions ....

Despite an impressive amount of effort and extensive research, our knowledge of parturition remains limited. Scientists have exhaustively investigated ‘‘the timing of birth’’; yet, we still have a limited understanding of the biologic mechanisms that control the events initiating delivery, and consequently, we lack tools to prevent these mechanisms from acting inappropriately. A multitude of fa...

The purpose of the article is to substantiate the theoretical positions and develop practical recommendations for the development of tools for analytical assessment of the competitiveness of an enterprise, taking into account the influence of the corruption component. It has been established that the main inalienable structural components of the analytical assessment of the competitiveness of e...

In the past, relations of diffusive resistance to stomatal geometry have concerned circular pores or pores that are replaced by equivalent circles of the same area. We calculated the resistance for general shapes that include the realistic slit. The resistance comprises two terms. The first is an outer resistance that depends only on ventilation and leaf geometry and is independent of stomata. ...