Utopian thought has been discredited because attempts to re-engineer society using Utopian formulae have invariably produced violence and despotism. But the apparent eclipse of Utopia has left a yawning gap, for economic and social conditions across the globe suggest a need for alternatives to the reigning social order – and thus for Utopian thinking which avoids the pitfalls of ‘classical’ Uto...

Load sharing in large heterogeneous distributed systems allows users to access vast amount of computing resources scattered around the system and may provide substantial performance improvements to applications We discuss the design and implementation issues in Utopia a load sharing facility speci cally built for large and heterogeneous systems The system has no restriction on the types of task...

In this paper a computational method to find the solutions of a system of nonlinear equations as the utopia points of a suitable multiobjective optimization problem is proposed. These utopia points are points that minimize/maximize all the objective functions of the multiobjective problem at once. The proposed algorithm finds the utopia points as limit points of trajectories which are solutions...

The likely advent of AGI and the long-established trend of improving computational hardware promise a dual revolution in coming decades: machines which are both more intelligent and more numerous than human beings. This possibility raises substantial concern over the moral nature of such intelligent machines, and of the changes they will cause in society. Will we have the chance to determine th...

In the past, female physicians, especially cardiologists, were a rarity. The first physicians were officially trained only at the end of the 19th century. In the last decades of the 20th century, the number of women in medicine increased tremendously; however, the number of female cardiologists has remained low, especially in invasive cardiology. The reasons include the invasive character of th...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether the introduction of computer-aided prescribing helped reduce the administrative burden at primary care centers. DESIGN Descriptive, cross-sectional design. SETTING Torreblanca Health Center in the province of Seville, southern Spain. From 29 October 2003 to the present a pilot project involving nine pharmacies in the basic health zone served by this health cen...

utopian literature, in terms of content, includes the dream of a world with better and ideal conditions or an image of favorable and yet abstract (nowhere) world. based on a single main motivation, nostalgia and the desire to return to eternal origin and due to the intellectual paradigms form them, this genre has formed certain structures. from the perspective of realizing the origin and having...