Ab stract In 1996 data from labo ra to ries, gen eral prac ti tio ners and a na tional em ployer were com bined to de tect trends in in flu enza ac tiv ity in Aus tra lia. An epi demic of in flu enza A (H3N2) was re corded. Lit tle in flu enza B ac tiv ity was noted through out the win ter months, how ever the number of labo ra tory re ports of in flu enza B rose in the last quar ter of the yea...

Tem po ral b-value vari a tions have been com pletely ob tained for the seis mic fault ing pro cess of the 4 March 2008 Taoyuan earth quake (ML = 5.2), south ern Tai wan. In ad di tion to trig ger ing sev eral hun dred after shocks, the mainshock was pre ceded by two groups of foreshocks (64 events) that clus tered along the nar row ma jor fault zone. A high b-value of ~1.25, es ti mated from t...

A global record (i.e. a set of local records, one for each process of an asyn-chronous computation) abstracts what is usually called global state, global checkpoint or global snapshot in particular problems. This paper concentrates on consistency of global records. First, a general model of asynchronous computations, including the classical shared memory model and several message passing models...

Structural reliability models suuer from some drawbacks mainly related to the assumptions necessary to apply them. We propose a model which intends to overcome some of these limitations appearing in previous published works. We discuss on an approach that can make more realistic the usual Markovian assumptions when considering the structural modeling of the execution process. Moreover, we deene...

Application generators have been demonstrated as a successful approach to achieving software reuse and typically yields higher productivity gains than methods such as component-based reuse. Despite their advantages, industrial software developers are reluctant to adopt these methods due to the lack of tools for constructing generators. This paper presents a framework for the development of appl...

Recently, there has been renewed interest in methods and techniques of reducing the confusion and uncertainty associated with the morass of spurious, computational poles that result from the traditional over-determined equation set in modal parameter estimation processes. In this paper, sev eral additional mechanisms for providing a clear stabilization, or consistency, diagram are presented. Am...

Previous work on human subjects (9) has shown that the polysaccharide associated with serum proteins is significantly elevated in malig nancy. Little is known concerning the correlation between this elevation and the cancerous condi tion. Work in this laboratory has shown that the serum polysaccharide of dogs is increased in sev eral types of experimental inflammation (7). An elevation also occ...