| The workload of many real-time systems can be characterized as a set of preemptable jobs with linear precedence constraints. Typically their execution times are only known to lie within a range of values. In addition jobs share resources and access to the resources must be synchronized to ensure the integrity of the system. This paper is concerned with the schedulability of such jobs when sch...

The critical issue in the complexity of Markov chain sampling techniques has been \mixing time", the number of steps of the chain needed to reach its stationary distribution. It turns out that there are many ways to deene mixing time|more than a dozen are considered here|but they fall into a small number of classes. The parameters in each class lie within constant multiples of one another, inde...

Generally speaking, the hearing world has a very naïve and view of deaf people. Physicians are not immune to these misconceptions. This article will attempt to add nuance and complexity to the average psychiatrist’s thinking about deaf individuals. BACKGROUND There are large differences between persons who grew up deaf vs. those raised as hearing who then experienced hearing loss later in life....

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"Chaos," "disarray," "unprecedented political wrangling," Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson on bended knee pleading for a lifeline, and President George W. Bush warning, "if money isn't loosened up, this sucker could go down [2]." These were the dramatic scenes in Washington yesterday where the historic $700 billion bailout plan now looks very much in doubt, The New York Times, Wall Street Journ...

Intersectional scholarship argues that women of color have distinct experiences of rape compared to white women and highlights their relative invisibility as victims compared to white women victims in news media. While the bulk of intersectional work has examined such issues within one nation and particularly within the US, in an era of increasingly transnationalized media content, we explore s...

The number of losses due to the 1932-34 Famine in Ukraine has been the subject of many studies and controversies (Commission on the Ukrainian Famine, 1988; Kulchytskyj, 2003; Wolowyna, 2007). The different estimates vary from around 2.6 millions to more than 10 millions. The figure of 10 million, extensively used by the government of Ukraine and some Ukrainian diaspora leaders, seems to be base...