This paper introduces a new priority mechanism in discretetime queueing systems that compromises between first-come-first-served (FCFS) and head-of-line (HoL) priority. In this scheduling discipline which we dubbed slot-bound priority customers of different priority classes entering the system during the same time-slot are served in order of their respective priority class. Customers entering d...

We have characterized a temperate phage (MM1) from a clinical isolate of the multiply antibiotic-resistant Spanish/American 23F Streptococcus pneumoniae clone (Spain(23F)-1 strain). The 40-kb double-stranded genome of MM1 has been isolated as a DNA-protein complex. The use of MM1 DNA as a probe revealed that the phage genome is integrated in the host chromosome. The host and phage attachment si...

Priority queueing systems come natural when customers with diversified delay requirements have to wait to get service. The customers that cannot tolerate but small delays get service priority over customers which are less delay-sensitive. In this contribution, we analyze a discretetime two-class preemptive repeat identical priority queue with infinite buffer space and generally distributed serv...

We present Submillimter Array 1.3 mm waveband continuum and molecular line observations of the HH 80–81 high-mass star-forming region. The dust continuum emission reveals two dominant peaks MM1 and MM2, and line emission from high-density tracers suggests the presence of another core MC. Molecular line emission from MM1, which harbors the exciting source of the HH 80–81 radio jet, yields a hot ...

This paper studies a fluid queueing system that has a single server, a single finite buffer, and which applies a strict priority discipline to multiple arriving streams of different classes. The arriving streams are modeled by statistically independent, identically distributed random processes. A proof is presented for the highly intuitive result that, in such a queueing system, a higher priori...

In this paper we examine the performance of fuzzy rule-based systems with classification priority for medical diagnosis problems. The assumption in this paper is that a classification priority is given a priori for each class in a pattern classification problem. Our fuzzy rulebased system consists of a set of fuzzy if-then rules that are automatically generated from a set of given training patt...

These are the first prospective studies to use criteria for menstrual migraine proposed in the 2004 revision of the International Classification of Headache Disorders (ICHD-II) to examine the efficacy of rizatriptan for treatment of a menstrual attack. Two identical protocols (MM1 and MM2) were randomized, parallel, placebo-controlled, double-blind studies. Adult women with ICHD-II menstrual mi...

We investigated the patterns of variants of creatine kinase isoenzyme MM (CK-MM) in gastrocnemius muscle and plasma sampled from male and female long-distance runners before and after a marathon race. The proportions of CK-MM variants MM1 (pI 6.90) and MM2 (pI 6.62), identified in the skeletal muscle from both sexes, did not differ significantly from those in skeletal muscle from nonrunning con...

Secure Multiparty Computation Privacy Assurances in Multiple Data-Aggregation Transactions. . . . . . . . . . . 3 Kim Le, Parmesh Ramanathan, and Kewal K. Saluja A Secure Priority Queue; Or: On Secure Datastructures from Multiparty Computation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Tomas Toft Towards Secure Two-Party Computation from the Wire-Tap Channel . . . . ...