For 1982 1992, records from the California Pesticide Illness Surveillance Program (PISP) showed 210 cases associated with exposure to phosphine gas and solid formulations of aluminum and zinc phosphide and 205 cases had sufficient information to retain in the data analysis. Of the cases with sufficient information, 179 (87.3%) cases involved isolated exposure to aluminum phosphide and 3 involve...

Numerous studies have shown that Operating System (OS) noise is one of the reasons for significant performance degradation in clustered architectures. Although many studies examine the OS noise for High Performance Computing, especially in multi-processor/core systems, most of them focus on 2or 4-core systems. In this study, we analyze sources of OS noise on a massive multithreading processor, ...

interface to a number of input devices. This layer is used mostly by the VEMS. I will describe it in more detail in Section 4.1.1. Close to the object handler is the collision detection module (see Chapter 3). It is responsible for detecting collisions among objects in the scene graph. In my implementation, it is integrated in the object handler, so that it notices automatically when objects ha...

OBJECTIVE The Australian Capital Territory Health Directorate was notified of a food handler with hepatitis E virus (HEV) infection. To guide the public health response, a rapid risk assessment was undertaken to determine the risk of transmission of HEV from the infected food handler to restaurant patrons. METHOD The literature on HEV was reviewed and expert advice sought from clinical and pu...

We report here the complete genome sequence of Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovar Typhi B/SF/13/03/195 obtained from a typhoid carrier, who is a food handler in Pasir Mas, Kelantan.

Software-only directory cache coherence protocols emulate directory management by handlers executed on the compute processor in shared-memory multiprocessors. While their potential lies in lower implementation cost and complexity than traditional hardware-only directory protocols, the miss penalty for cache misses induced by application data accesses as well as directory accesses is a critical ...

Building a rich internet application (RIA) requires the programming of various callbacks and listeners. AJAX like server requests require callback handler objects that react to the asynchronous server response. Active GUI elements like buttons or menu entries require action handlers. Using a timer queue requires appropriate event handlers, too. Programming all these handlers is tedious and erro...

This novel, exploratory study investigated the effect of a short, 20 min, dog-assisted intervention on student well-being, mood, and anxiety. One hundred and thirty-two university students were allocated to either an experimental condition or one of two control conditions. Each participant completed the Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-Being Scale (WEMBS), the State Trait Anxiety Scale (STAI), and...

In December 2001, the South Australian Communicable Disease Control Branch investigated an outbreak of gastrointestinal illness linked to a Korean style restaurant in metropolitan Adelaide. Twenty-eight people were identified as having experienced gastrointestinal symptoms subsequent to dining at the restaurant between 9 and 12 December 2001. A case-control study implicated mango pudding desser...

A future is a well-known programming construct used to introduce concurrency to sequential programs. Computations annotated as futures are executed asynchronously and run concurrently with their continuations. Typically, futures are not transparent annotations: a program with futures need not produce the same result as the sequential program from which it was derived. Safe futures guarantee a f...