A case-control comparison of immunologic and psychological parameters in the multiple chemical sensitivity syndrome. This letter is prompted by Rall's editorial on media and science in the January issue of EHP (102:10). Rall implies that bad reporting is being conducted concerning dioxin, CFCs, and asbestos. Rall concludes by assuming that he is correct in assigning a high level of risk to each...

adi it ion ally, the problems of Byzantine agreement, concensus, and interactive consistency are studied in a fully connected network with processors in malicious failure only. Such problems are re-examined with the assumption of malicious faults on both processors and links. The proposed protocols use the minimum number of message exchanges and can tolerate the maximum number of allowable faul...

Formal verification of integer multipliers was an open problem for a long time as the size of any reduced ordered binary decision diagram (BDD) [1] which represents integer multiplication is exponential in the width of the operands [2]. In 1995, Bryant and Chen [4] introduced multiplicative binary moment diagrams (*BMD) which is a canonical data structure for pseudo Boolean functions allowing a...

A diagnosis points at a set of components whose abnormal behavior could explain why a system does not function as intended, and a set of diagnoses points at different such sets of components. It would be an advantage for repair technicians if it, as a complement to the diagnoses, was possible to exactly state which components that certainly are faulty, which that are only suspected to be faulty...