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Ownership You Can Count On

While many forms of memory management have been proposed, the only ones to achieve widespread adoption have been explicit deallocation and garbage collection. This leaves programmers requiring explicit control of memory behavior unable to obtain the software engineering and security benefits of programming in a safe language. We present a new approach to memory management called alias counting ...

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In research areas such as decision support systems, one of the crucial features is the ability to automatically explain decisions. However, this ability does not typically play a large role in computer games. Here, I suggest that this situation will change: research on the automatic generation of explanations will have real import for many types of computer games. I discuss four possible ways t...

Predicting CD4 count using total lymphocyte count: a sustainable tool for clinical decisions during HAART use.

Understanding the total lymphocyte count (TLC)-CD4 count relationship could aide design predictive instruments for making clinical decisions during antiretroviral therapy, especially in underserved resource-poor settings. We performed multiple regression analyses to assess the prediction of CD4 count using TLC on 771 participants with 4,836 visits. In linear and logistic regression TLC, hemoglo...

Can We Count on Global Health Estimates?

This week PLoS Medicine publishes a cluster of articles discussing the current state of global health estimates and debating the way into the future [1–5]. Estimates of global health indicators— which give insight into death and disease rates, document advances in health and development, and help policymakers monitor progress—are a necessary evil. They are absolutely essential to improving glob...

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