27 the communication subsystem ; (2) they react only after the occurrence of end-to-end QoS violation ; and (3) they react to QoS violation by renegotiating a degraded QoS and thus they are restricted to applications that can accept a varying QoS. In this paper we presented an approach which allows to recover automatically from QoS violations, and only require user/application intervention (exi...

M Theory and/or Loop Quantum Gravity hold the promise of resolving the conflict between general relativity and quantum mechanics but lack experimental connections to predictability in physics. A connection is made to these and other theories vying for the title of a “Theory of Everything” by questioning the value of the traditional Planck unit reference point for the scales at which they operat...

Society remains sharply divided as to the deterrent value of capital punishment. Following the reintroduction of the death penalty in the United States, Texas law mandates the affirmative predictability of future dangerousness beyond a reasonable doubt before a jury can impose the ultimate penalty for capital murder. The validity of prediction of dangerousness has been challenged in three Texas...

Abstract In this chapter, we examine the final stage in life cycle of pellagrous patients—discharge or death. The nineteenth-century emphasis on physicality insanity lent itself to treatment insanity, which responded well better diet and living conditions asylums offered. Approximately two-thirds insane patients were discharged, either ‘cured’ ‘improved’ (at least according their patient files)...

Abstract This book set out to challenge the silence of a messy period Caribbean history by relocalizing early colonial travel writing and paying attention textual disjunctions temporal overlaps. The concluding chapter offers discussion about what readings modern writings might entail for (French) literary history. More precisely, it teases possibility putting this past work in terms alternative...