Abstract This paper provides counterexamples for the slack enforcement mechanisms to handle segmented self-suspending real-time tasks by Lakshmanan and Rajkumar (Proceedings of Real-Time Embedded Technology Applications Symposium (RTAS), pp 3–12, 2010).

Decomposition-based design optimization strategies are used to solve complex engineering system problems that might be otherwise unsolvable. Yet, the associated computational cost can be prohibitively high due to the often large number of iterations needed for coordination of subproblem solutions. To reduce this cost one may exploit the fact that some systems may be weakly coupled and their int...

This is the review of two papers, Tardiness Bounds under Global EDF Scheduling on a Multiprocessor (RTSS’05) and An O(m) Analysis Technique for Supporting Real-Time Self-Suspending Task Systems (RTSS’12).

In the design of user-friendly robots, human communication should be understood by system beyond mere logics and literal meaning. Robot communication-design has long ignored importance politeness rules that are ‘forgiving’ ‘suspending disbelief’ cannot handle basically metaphorical way humans their utterances. Through analysis psychological causes illogical non-literal statements, signal detect...

In the present study, we separated the marker particles from the suspending particle mixture solution using isotacho-electrophoresis technique, a novel quantitative ionic particle separation method, in the microchannel. A multiple stacking zone of the suspending particle was visualized with variations in electric field strength, pH value and concentration of the ionic solution. In particular, t...

Three types of filters, silver, polycarbonate, and cellulose, were evaluated for permeability toward poliovirus suspended in water, salt-containing, and proteinaceous solvents. The ability of virus to pass through cellulose filters depended on the suspending medium; virus did not pass through cellulose filters in either water or salt solution, whereas the use of protein solutions increased filt...

In many real-time systems, tasks may experience suspension delays. The problem of analyzing task systems with such suspensions on multiprocessors has been relatively unexplored and is thought to be difficult (as it is on uniprocessors). In this paper, hard/soft multiprocessor schedulability tests for arbitrary-deadline sporadic self-suspending task systems are presented for both global EDF and ...

The stability of prednisone (5 mg/mL) formulated as a suspension in Oral Mix vehicle was evaluated. Oral Mix is a novel oral, dye-free suspending vehicle developed by Medisca Pharmaceutique Inc. for preparation of extemporaneous dosage forms. This drug was chosen based on its high frequency of prescription among the pediatric population. Suspensions were prepared from both pure active and comme...