LOCK HOSPITAL.

A Lock Hospital for Calcutta

gion Act, -whereby the fearful effects of syphilis will, to a great degree, be counteracted, it is surely time that something were done, in the same direction, here in Calcutta. We hope that no squeamish sentimentality -will he allowed to stand in the way of so-much-needed a reform. It is infinitely to be deplored that prostitution in this country is unblushingly regarded as an unimpeachable me...

The Manchester and Salford Lock Hospital, 1818-1917.

A GROWTH in the numbers and range of specialist hospitals was a distinctive feature of the expanding provision of medical care facilities during the nineteenth century. Concentrating upon diseases and complaints which were frequently excluded from the general hospitals or where the demand for medical treatment was not satisfactorily supplied by existing hospitals, specialist hospitals dealing w...

Lock Manager Lock Manager Data

RH Lock: A Scalable Hierarchical Spin Lock

Scalable architectures with non-uniform memory access time (NUMAs) have gained increased popularity in recent years. The increased scalability have increased the demand for scalable lock implementations, such as the queue-based locks of Mellor-Crummey and Scott (MCS lock), and of Craig, Landin and Hagersten (CLH lock). This paper demonstrates that the first-come first-served nature of queue-bas...

Power Lock

The concept of Grid computing has been in the making since the 1960’s, but it took quite some time up to the late 1990’s, with the advent of faster networks and better understanding of distributed computing, that some of those concepts were realized. Even now, the world’s computer networks are very primitive as compared to other networks, such as the electrical power grid, the telephone network...