The readers-writers problem is one of the very well known problems in concurrency theory. It was first introduced by Courtois et.al. in 1971 1 and requires the synchronization of processes trying to read and write a shared resource. Several readers are allowed to access the resource simultaneously, but a writer must be given exclusive access to that resource. Courtois et.al. gave semaphore-base...

In June of 2005 the term hormone completed a life span of one century. The word that Ernest Henry Starling included in one of his four lectures to the Royal Society of Physicians of London, given in June 1905, definitively established the permanent representation in terminology for the products secreted by the endocrine glands. Various attempts by physicians and medical writers to replace the t...

There are many situations wherein a group of individuals (e.g., voters, experts, sports writers) must produce an ordered list of 'best' alternatives selected from a given group of alternatives (e.g., candidates, proposals, sports teams). Two long established mechanisms that have been used for this task are 'Zermelo's Ranking Method' (1929) and 'Borda's Voting Scheme' (1781). The main purpose of...

OBJECTIVE We examined whether the three subtests of the Beery Buktenica developmental test of visuomotor integration predicted quality of handwriting across and within groups of boys and girls classified as proficient, at risk or non-proficient writers according to the Concise Assessment Scale for Children's Handwriting. METHOD The Beery Buktenica developmental test of visuomotor integration ...

BACKGROUND Many papers in biomedical journals are drafted not by the named authors, but by professional medical writers working under the direction of those authors, usually funded by pharmaceutical companies. Although this practice can improve both the quality and speed of publications, it has attracted controversy as a result of concerns about the inappropriate influence of pharmaceutical com...

Left-handed female subjects, categorized as using an inverted (LI) (n=7) or non-inverted (LN) (n=7) writing posture, were compared on performance of a motor task. Task parameters were manipulated to create four conditions varying in demand for sequential processing. Based on previously observed group differences in the direction and extent of hemispheric lateralization, non-inverted writers wer...

Being a country that constantly provides well-established writers to the world literature and draws attention as kind of education in eyes great writers, Ireland embodies magnificent literary tradition accumulation from past present. Marina Carr, one female playwrights contemporary Irish theater twentieth century contrbuiton which literature, stands out among most important writers. The main ac...

R ejection happens to all of us, and it can be a salutatory experience. In the case of submitted papers, authors who are early, as well as those established in their careers, will experience rejection. In response to a rejection letter, one should not react by ripping the letter to shreds or, in today’s electronic world, permanently deleting the message. Similarly, one should avoid the decision...

Reclaiming lost or forgotten (Victorian) popular women writers and their works is still an important, ongoing aim of literary gender studies. In this article, we take the Key Popular Women Writers series, published by Edward Everett Root Publishers edited Janine Hatter Helena Ifill, as one example a current series that continues develops feminist practice. By drawing upon research, writing publ...