A snapshot scan algorithm takes an “instantaneous” picture of a region of shared memory that may be updated by concurrent processes. Many complex shared memory algorithms can be greatly simplifkd by structuring them around the snapshot scan abstraction. Unfortunately, the substantial decrease in conceptual complexity is quite often countetkknced by an increase in computational complexity. In th...

Little is known about the correlates of cancer information avoidance and whether people with negative feelings and beliefs about cancer are more likely to avoid cancer information, allowing such thoughts and feelings to persist unchallenged. Using the Extended Parallel Processing Model as a theoretical guide, we tested the hypothesis that cancer fear and fatalism would predict cancer informatio...

This paper introduces GRASP (Generic seaRch Algorithm for the Sati$ability Problem), a new search algorithm f o r Propositional Satisjability (SAT). GRASP incorporates several search-pruning techniques, some of which are spec$c to SAT whereas others f ind equivalent in other f i e h ofArt$cial Intelligence. GRASP is premised on the inevitability of conflicts during search and its most distingui...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To examine the level of cancer fatalism and other sociocognitive behavioral determinants in Mexican American women categorized as regular mammography screeners and infrequent mammography screeners. DESIGN Cross-sectional, descriptive. SETTING A southwestern American city on the U. S.-Mexico border. SAMPLE 68 Mexican American women with low incomes recruited from a cance...

Assembly Line production is one of the widely used basic principles in production system. The problem of Assembly Line Balancing deals with the distribution of activities among the workstations so that there will be maximum utilization of human resources and facilities without disturbing the work sequence. Research works reported in the literature mainly deals with minimization of idle time i.e...

assembly line production is one of the widely used basic principles in production system. the problem of assembly line balancing deals with the distribution of activities among the workstations so that there will be maximum utilization of human resources and facilities without disturbing the work sequence. research works reported in the literature mainly deals with minimization of idle time i.e...

the probability of losing a customer in m/g/n/0 and gi/m/n/0 loss queuing systems withheterogeneous servers is minimized. the first system uses a queue discipline in which a customer who arriveswhen there are free servers chooses any one of them with equal probability, but is lost otherwise. providedthat the sum of the servers rates are fixed, loss probability in this system attains minimum val...

hearing loss (hl) is the most common sensory defect. various genetic as well as environmental factors have been shown to contribute in it. more than 100 loci have been recognized to cause autosomal recessive nonsyndromic hearing loss (arnshl). here, we report a 6-year old female patient with bilateral pre-lingual hl in whom a mutation has been identified in triobp gene (c.6362c>t, s2121l). in s...

background: approximately 10-14% of the clinically acknowledged pregnancies end with spontaneous abortion at caucasian population. possible immunologic causes of recurrent miscarriages have been extensively researched. the change in the cytokines balance synthesis in favor of those synthesized by th2 cells with an increase of interleukin 6 (il6) and interleukin10 (il10) secretion is considered ...

conclusions: we determined a significant higher frequency of protein s deficiency in patients with rpl compared with controls. but the frequency of protein c deficiency and the frequency of two common thrombophilic mutations (factor v leiden and prothrombin g20210a), were not significantly different between patients with recurrent miscarriage and healthy women. results: the mean functional acti...