Noncriminal DNA databases may serve a societal role in identifying victims of crime and human trafficking. However, how do we safeguard personal privacy of innocent victims and family members?

VERN BULLOUGH, BONNIE BULLOUGH, and MARIETTA P. STANTON (eds), Florence Nightingale and her era: a collection of new scholarship, New York and London, Garland, 1990, 8vo, pp. xvi. 365, $50.00. This volume, by established and new writers on the history of nursing, is the result of a conference held at the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1989. The editors are to be congratulated for th...

Trace-driven simulation is a widely used technique to evaluate microprocessor architecture and/or memory hierarchy performance. However, software trace collection induces signiicant execution slowdown. As on-line simulation induces an even more disastrous slowdown, simulating applications incurring trillions of instructions can not be considered without trace sampling. Therefore continuous soft...

We have used the Haemonetics Cell-Saver autotransfusion technique in over 6,500 cases since 1979, salvaging more than 11,000 units of packed red blood cells. Major utilization has been in cardiac, vascular, and orthopedic cases. Coagulopathy associated with hypothermia, shock, multiple transfusions, and the autotransfusion technique, which removes clotting factors and platelets, often necessita...

The Object Constraint Language OCL is an integral part of UML, the Unified Modeling Language standard. It has been added to Rational’s UML core as a logic-based sublanguage for the definition of integrity constraints (invariants) on class diagrams as well as for the definition of preand postconditions of operations. Despite of the fact that OCL is called a statically typed language its type che...

Many big data systems are written in garbage-collected languages and GC has a substantial impact on throughput, responsiveness and predicability of these systems. However, despite decades of research, there is still no “Holy Grail” of GC: a collector with no measurable impact, even on real-time applications. Such a collector needs to achieve freedom from pauses, high GC throughput and good memo...

Amajor obstacle that hinders medical and social research is the lack of reliable data due to people’s reluctance to reveal confidential information to strangers. Fortunately, statistical inference always targets a well-defined population rather than a particular individual subject and, in many current applications, data can be collected using a web-based system or other mobile devices. These tw...

A new generation of UAVs is coming that will help improve the situational awareness and assessment necessary to ensure quality data collection, especially in difficult conditions like natural disasters. Operators should be relieved from time-consuming data collection tasks as much as possible and at the same time, UAVs should assist data collection operations through a more insightful and autom...

The purpose of this paper is to introduce a new test problem collection for stochastic linear programming that the authors have recently begun to assemble. While there are existing stochastic programming test problem collections, our new collection has three features that distinguish it from existing collections. First, our collection is webbased with free public access, and we intend to enrich...

We deal with dynamic information organization for more efficient Internet browsing. As the appropriate algorithm for this purpose, we propose modified ART (artificial resonance theory) algorithm, which functions similarly with the dynamic Star-clustering algorithm but performs a more efficient time complexity of O(nk), (k << n) instead of O(n2log2n) found in the dynamic Star-clustering algorith...