Chaos surviving machinery

Fourth Surviving Sepsis Campaign’s hemodynamic recommendations: a step forward or a return to chaos?

Since the first publication of the Surviving Sepsis Campaign (SSC) guidelines [1], a corpus of contradictory evidence as well as physiological objections on critical aspects of the hemodynamic resuscitation have emerged over time [2–4]. The most recent SSC guidelines [5] have radically moved from a structured bundle approach to extremely broad recommendations, leaving fundamental pieces of care...

Surviving torture.

Surviving Internet Catastrophes

In this paper, we propose a new approach for designing distributed systems to survive Internet catastrophes called informed replication, and demonstrate this approach with the design and evaluation of a cooperative backup system called the Phoenix Recovery Service. Informed replication uses a model of correlated failures to exploit software diversity. The key observation that makes our approach...

Surviving Global Software Development

0 7 4 0 7 4 5 9 / 0 1 / $ 1 0 . 0 0 © 2 0 0 1 I E E E Working in a global context has its advantages, but it also has drawbacks. On the plus side, you gain time-zone effectiveness and reduced cost in various countries. However, working on a globally distributed project means operating costs for planning and managing people, along with language and cultural barriers. It also creates jealousy as ...

Surviving antioxidant supplements.

An association between healthy diet and good health has been noted since Hippocrates (460 – 377 bc) — and in fact long before (1). Our diet provides numerous vitamins and trace elements that are essential to good health. Observational studies have shown that there is a positive association between a healthy diet, especially high intake of fruits and vegetables, and delayed aging, reduced risk o...