Distributed systems achieve scalability by balancing load across many machines, but wide-area distribution can introduce worst-case response latencies proportional to the network’s delay diameter. Crux is a general framework to build locality-preserving distributed systems, by transforming some existing scalable distributed algorithm A into a new algorithm Ā that guarantees for any two clients ...

Until recently, 32 Middle Persian inscriptions documenting the construction of Derbent defensive complex and dating from very end 560s. AD were known. Now has been replenished with two more - No. 33 34, opened by authors in 2016 2021, respectively. Inscription is located between towers 18 19 northern city wall central part curtain, at a height 1.5 m. It poor preservation. But, nevertheless, its...

Let G be a random graph on the vertex set {1, 2, . . . , n} such that edges in G are determined by independent random indicator variables, while the probabilities pij for {i, j} being an edge in G are not assumed to be equal. Spectra of the adjacency matrix and the normalized Laplacian matrix of G are recently studied by Oliveira and Chung-Radcliffe. Let A be the adjacency matrix of G, Ā = E(A)...

The innermost stable circular orbits (ISCO) of coalescing neutron starblack hole binary are studied taking into account both the tidal and relativistic effects. We adopt the generalized pseudo-Newtonian potential to mimic the general relativistic effects of gravitation. It is found that the separation of the neutron star and the black hole at the innermost stable circular orbit is greater than ...

Broadly, this paper proposes that both TCs and GDPs are improper movement constructions, where an Ā-movement step precedes an A-movement step in the same movement chain. However, TCs and GDPs are not identical constructions. TCs involve (improper) movement of an overt DP from the embedded clause into the matrix clause, while GDPs involve (improper) movement of a null operator within the embedde...

Valeri and VanderWeele [1] used the counterfactual framework to extend formulas from Baron and Kenny [2] to account for exposure-mediator interaction in mediation analysis. The results are also extended to the case when the outcome is binary. VanderWeele and Tchetgen Tchetgen [3] identified the randomized interventional analogues of the natural direct and indirect effects in longitudinal settin...