This paper provides a theoretical and practical framework for crash-resilient data structures on a machine with persistent (nonvolatile) memory but transient registers and cache. In contrast to certain prior work, but in keeping with “real world” systems, we assume a full-system failure model, in which all transient state (of all processes) is lost on a crash. We introduce the notion of durable...

Genomic selection (GS) provides an attractive option for accelerating genetic gain in perennial ryegrass () improvement given the long cycle times of most current breeding programs. The present study used simulation to investigate the level of genetic gain and inbreeding obtained from GS breeding strategies compared with traditional breeding strategies for key traits (persistency, yield, and fl...

For many pathogens, the ability to regulate their replication in host cells is a key element in establishing persistency. Here, we identified a single point mutation in the gene for polynucleotide phosphorylase (PNPase) as a factor affecting bacterial invasion and intracellular replication, and which determines the alternation between acute or persistent infection in a mouse model for Salmonell...

Intergenerational Income Persistency in Urban China Intergenerational income elasticities are estimated using samples for urban China (covering many cities) for the years 1995 and 2002 and compared with results from other studies. We find that the income relation between the pairs: sons and fathers, sons and mothers and daughters and mothers, are in 2002 all similar in magnitude. In contrast th...

PURPOSE To evaluate persistency (time on initial therapy) and the clinical impact of latanoprost versus beta-blocker monotherapy in treating glaucoma. METHODS This observational, multicenter, retrospective medical chart review study conducted in four European countries included patients with primary open-angle glaucoma or ocular hypertension who began their first glaucoma treatment with latan...

Although the need of logging messages in secondary storage once they have been received has been stated in several papers that assumed a recoverable failure model, none of them analysed the overhead implied by that logging in case of using reliable broadcasts in a group communication system guaranteeing virtual synchrony. At a glance, it seems an excessive cost for its apparently limited advant...

The important distinction between parameterized specifications and specifications of parameterized programs has been originally pointed out in [12]. An important difference concerns the objects which the two kinds of parameterization allow one to reuse. A parameterized specification, “PSP”, e.g., of stacks parameterized by elements, Stack(El), allows one, under some conditions, to instantiate t...

This paper is motivated by the question to approximate the distribution of the completion time of a project network with random activity durations. In general, we consider the mixed zero-one linear optimization problem under objective uncertainty, and develop an approach to approximate the distribution of its optimal value when the random objective coefficients follow a multivariate normal dist...