1. The retention of ferric- and ferrous-iron was determined in guinea-pigs and monkeys using 55Fe and 59Fe. 2. The bioavailability of Fe from two typical Indian diets based on rice and wheat was determined in humans and monkeys using a 59Fe tracer and whole-body counting. 3. The retention ratio, ferric-Fe; ferrous-Fe was 0-90 in guinea-pigs and 0-33 in monkeys, indicating that monkeys absorb fe...

This paper presents a method of estimating the availability of fault-tolerant computer systems with several recovery procedures. A segregated failures model has been proposed recently for this purpose. This paper provides further analysis and extension of this model. The segregated failures model is compared with a Markov chain model and is extended for the situation when the coverage factor is...

A preliminary review of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) model drug control laws was conducted by the Pain & Policy Studies Group (PPSG) to determine whether the models provided governments with language they can use to carry out the obligation to ensure adequate availability of opioid analgesics for the relief of pain and suffering, specified in the Single Convention on Nar...

A metro control system is a software/hardware platform that provides automated mechanisms to enforce the safety of a metropolitan transportation system. In this field, the current technical trend is the Communications-based Train Control (CBTC) solution. CBTC platforms are characterized by a continuous wireless interaction between trains and ground controls. Several degrees of automation are pr...

This paper demonstrates how to prevent or mitigate insider threats in relational databases. It shows how different order of accesses to the same data items may pose different levels of threat. Moreover, it states the conditions that are required to regard a data item as expired. In addition, it introduces the two different methods of executing insiders’ tasks, and how to prevent insider threat ...

The Mobility Aircraft Availability Forecasting (MAAF) model requirements definition research effort was initiated to help the United States Air Force, Air Mobility Command (AMC) answer the question, “How can we accurately predict mission capable (MC) rates?” Unfortunately, getting a perfect prediction of aircraft MC rates is not possible, either now or anytime in the foreseeable future. Fortuna...

— Ad-hoc networks are expected to play an important role in future commercial and military communications systems. As such, scalable routing strategies capable of supporting greater user mobility and a wide range of applications are needed. This paper proposes a novel routing metric, which defines a probabilistic measure of the availability of network paths that are subject to link failures cau...

This paper presents a single hysteresis model for limited-availability group that are offered Erlang, Engset and Pascal traffic streams. The occupancy distribution in the system is approximated by a weighted sum of occupancy distributions in multi-threshold systems. Distribution weights are obtained on the basis of a specially constructed Markovian switching process. The results of the calculat...

Fault-tolerant systems are often modeled using (homogeneous) continuous time Markov chains (CTMCs). Computation of the distribution of the interval availability, i.e. of the distribution of the fraction of time in a time interval in which the system is operational, of a fault-tolerant system modeled by a CTMC is an important problem which has received attention recently. However, currently avai...

This paper deals with a model that comprises the pumped-storage hydro power plants in system reliability and availability calculations, as well of impact inflow deficiency water storage risks on operational planning such within framework systems for periods up to one year. The uncertainties is related characteristics watercourses where reservoirs are built, but also operation cycles possible mo...