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The associations of hospital morbidity with occupation were studied in Western Australian men of working age in 1981-2. Data on hospital morbidity were derived from a population based system that covered all short stays in hospitals in the state. Occupations were grouped into 12 major categories and conditions were coded using the International Classification of Diseases. Armed services personn...

A particularly simple Markov chain model for a reference string is described. The model, which is only slightly more complicated than the independent reference model, generates strings that have a locality property and that have a specified probability distribution of references over pages. Expressions are obtained for expected working-set size and expected working-set miss ratio. The of change...

This paper proposes an adaptive invalidate/update protocol for software distributed shared memory(DSM), which use the working-set notion of a conventional operating system as the criteria for determining whether to update or invalidate. The proposed protocol can adjust the amount of update messages as changing the value of working-set size. The proposed protocol was implemented in CVM[4], a sof...

Today we face two major trends in communications technology, multimedia and mobile communications. Therefore, future wireless communication systems need to support many different services. Yet while in wired networks the migration to ATM based Broadband ISDN is visible, wireless ATM (WATM) internetworking for mobile clients is still in its infancy. In this article first a brief overview of the ...

mHealth can be defined as the application of emerging mobile communications and network technologies for health care systems. It involves the use of mobile computing, medical sensors, and communications technologies for health care. Successful implementation of mHealth makes the right information available at the right place, at the right time, and in the correct form. mHealth is gaining ground...

Inter-vehicle communications, in the context of Intelligent Transportation Systems, will probably bring a significant improvement in both traffic safety and efficiency. In order to evaluate in what measure this is true, traffic simulations that take into account the communications between vehicles are needed. Several approaches are being pursued to this end, many of them working on the integrat...

The current and future growth in telecommunications (National Information Infrastructure) requires technical expertise at all levels to develop, install and operate the equipment. From discussions with the telecommunications industrial leaders, telecommunications and networking professionals are needed. To meet this need, the Electrical Engineering Technology (EET) department at Purdue Universi...