objective : identification of the risk factors and psychological correlates of prolonged grief disorder is vital for health promotions in relatives of persons who died of cancer. the aim of this research was to investigate the role of defense mechanisms, character dimension of personality and demographic factors on complicated grief following a loss of a family member to cancer. method : a numb...

The provision of efficient methods and tool support for the development and engineering of distributed systems is a key enabling factor for the evolution of Information Technology. Distributed as well as telecommunication systems consist of components which are distributed across networks and have to cope with concurrency, autonomy, synchronization, and communication issues. The development of ...

In previous lectures we’ve mentioned that one of the reasons that distributed systems are different (and more complicated) than nondistributed systems is due to partial failure of system components. We’ve mentioned that dependability is an important challenge in designing and building distributed systems and that the presence of failure often makes achieving transparency (e.g., for RPC) difficu...