In a case study a University class undertook a translation from Swedish to English in a keystroke logging environment and then replayed their translations in pairs while discussing their thought processes when undertaking the translations, and why they made particular choices and changes to their translations. Computer keystroke logging coupled with peer-based intervention assisted the students...

Logging is crucial to performance in modern multicore main-memory database management systems (DBMSs). Traditional data logging (ARIES) and command logging algorithms enforce a sequential order among log records using a global log sequence number (LSN). Log flushing and recovery after a crash are both performed in the LSN order. This serialization of transaction logging and recovery can limit t...

Understanding the causes underlying changes in species diversity is a fundamental pursuit of ecology. Animal species richness and composition often change with decreased forest structural complexity associated with logging. Yet differences in latitude and forest type may strongly influence how species diversity responds to logging. We performed a meta-analysis of logging effects on local specie...

Pervasive logging devices capture everything along with the public nearby without their consent, thus, possibly troubling people who prefer their privacy. This has issues for privacy and, furthermore, the widespread use of such logging devices may affect people’s behavior, as they may feel uncomfortable that they are constantly being monitored. People may wish to have some control over the life...

Despite abundant evidence that both the environmental damage and the financial costs of logging can be reduced substantially by training workers, pre-planning skid trails, practicing directional felling, and carrying out a variety of other well-known forestry practices, destructive logging is still common in the tropics. Based on our collective experience with loggers in tropical forests, we di...

The distributed shared memory(DSM) system transforms an existing network of workstations to a powerful shared-memory parallel computer which could deliver superior price/performance. However, with more workstations engaged in the system and longer execution time, the probability of faults increases which could render the system useless. Several checkpointing and logging schemes have been propos...

Primary tropical forests are lost at an alarming rate, and much of the remaining forest is being degraded by selective logging. Yet, the impacts of logging on biodiversity remain poorly understood, in part due to the seemingly conflicting findings of case studies: about as many studies have reported increases in biodiversity after selective logging as have reported decreases. Consequently, meta...

A database snapshot mechanism rcprcsents a cost effectivc substitute for replicated data in a distributed database. The contents of a database snapshot can be periodically refreshed to reflect the current state of the database. In a distributed database system it is sign& icant to reduce the cost of snapshot refresh. This can be obtained by a differential refresh strategy in which modifications...