background: to find out the knowledge, attitude and compliance with standard precautions among doctors working in a terti­ary care hospital. methods: the cross sectional study was conducted during october 2006 in the form of self reporting questionnaire. the question­naire included question about duration of clinical experience, hepatitis b virus vaccination and its antibody titer, knowl­edge a...

For coded distributed computing (CDC), polynomial code is one prevalent encoding method for CDC (called Poly-CDC). It suffers from poor numerical stability due to the Vandermonde matrix serving as coefficient which needs be inverted, and whose condition number increases exponentially with size of or equivalently parallel worker nodes. To improve stability, especially large networks, we propose ...