OBJECTIVES The present study examined the day-to-day fluctuation of state-like anticipatory coping (coping employed prior to stressors) and how these coping processes relate to important outcomes for older adults (i.e., physical health, affect, memory failures). METHOD Forty-three older adults aged 60-96 (M = 74.65, SD = 8.19) participated in an 8-day daily diary study of anticipatory coping,...

We fabricated a novel in-line conductive atomic force microscopy (C-AFM), which can analyze the resistive failures and examine process variance with an exact-positioning capability across the whole wafer scale in in-line DRAM fabrication process. Using this in-line C-AFM, we introduced a new, non-destructive diagnosis for resistive failure in mobile DRAM structures. Specially, we focused on the...

Online Reputation Systems allow markets to exclude providers providers that are untrustworthy or unreliable. System failures and outages may decrease the reputation of honest providers, which would lose potential clients. For that reason, providers require trust-aware management policies aimed at retaining their reputation when unexpected failures occur. This paper proposes policies to operate ...

My broad research interest is in dependable systems, in particular developing fault-tolerant distributed algorithms and applying them to practical problems. Developing dependable systems is an important goal as we increasingly rely upon large-scale wide-area distributed systems to support a wide range of online services. As systems scale in size and extent, efficiently coping with failures is a...

In this paper, we examine the different measures of Fault Tolerance in a Distributed Simulated Annealing process. Optimization by Simulated Annealing on a distributed system is prone to various sources of failure. We analyse simulated annealing algorithm, its architecture in distributed platform and potential sources of failures. We examine the behaviour of tolerant distributed system for optim...

Link failures are part of the day to day operation of a network due to various causes such as maintenance, faulty interfaces, and accidental fiber cuts. Due to several delays in detection, propagation and recomputation, intra-domain routing protocols may take tens of seconds to minutes after a link failure to resume forwarding of packets to the affected destinations. During this period, some de...

The loss of potential revenues due to PV system failures should be taken into consideration when the system’s life cycle cost predictions are calculated. We demonstrate a procedure for quantifying the effects of inverter failures (as most dominant) on total lifetime PV system energy production, and investigate the suitability of several inverter configurations based on criteria of total lifetim...

Abstract The reliability and safety of any system is the most important qualitative characteristic of a system. This qualitative characteristic is of particular importance in systems whose functions are under various stresses, such as high temperature, high speed, high pressure, etc. A considerable point, which is rarely taken into account when calculating the reliability and safety of syst...

ABSTRACT The emergence of Grid infrastructures like EGEE has enabled the deployment of large-scale computational experiments that address challenging scientific problems in various fields. However, to realize their full potential, Grid infrastructures need to achieve a higher degree of dependability, i.e., they need to improve the ratio of Grid-job requests that complete successfully in the pre...

INTRODUCTION Communication failures may result in inadequate treatment and patient harm, and are among the most common causes of sentinel events. Checklists are part of cycles to improve quality of the care process, promote communication between professionals involved in the different stages, help detect failures and risks, and increase patient safety. The lack of checklists at each stage was i...