In grid environment, users look for a suitable resource capable of executing a given task. Resource brokers / schedulers are intermediaries, who provide service to the grid users. In the existing resource brokers / schedulers, when the exact match for the requested resource is not available, resource discovery have to be terminated unsuccessfully or the process should wait in the queue till the...

Complementary or Alternative Medicine is defined as a form of therapy that has no scientific basis or proven effectiveness. The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of the use of such therapies for pediatric patients with atopic dermatitis at the University Hospital of Brasília, in the period between March 2007 and December 2008. A total number of 54 patients (63.5%) used some ki...

Most recent models conceptualize working memory (WM) as a continuous resource, divided up according to task demands. When an increasing number of items need to be remembered, each item receives a smaller chunk of the memory resource. These models predict that the allocation of attention to high-priority WM items during the retention interval should be a zero-sum game: improvements in rememberin...