Rationale for Selecting Molluscicides for Bilharzia Control Programs

Bilharzia: Pathology, Diagnosis, Management and Control.

More than one billion people travel internationally each year and approximately 100 million to the tropics. Schistosomiasis is a neglected tropical disease caused by trematode blood flukes of the genus Schistosoma. It currently infects over 250 million people worldwide and results in approximately 25 million disability adjusted life years lost. Clinical manifestations depend on the affected org...

Bilharzia: the necessity for control measures on irrigated estates.

Selecting Locking Designs for Parallel Programs

Parallelizing a program can greatly speed it up. However , the synchronization primitives needed to protect shared resources result in contention, overhead, and added complexity. These costs can overwhelm the performance beneets of parallel execution. Since the only reason to go to the trouble of parallelizing a program is to gain performance, it is necessary to understand the performance impli...

Selecting Locking Primitives for Parallel Programs

The only reason to parallelize a program is to gain performance. However, the synchronization primitives used by parallel programs can consume execessive memory bandwidths, can be subject to memory laten-cies, consume excessive memory, and result in unfair access or even starvation. These problems can overwhelm the performance beneets of parallel execution. Therefore, it is necessary to underst...

Selecting Test Cases for Object Oriented Programs

Testing is used to assess the correctness of a program by running the program against a set of test data. The main problem in testing is that only a tiny fraction of the possible inputs of a program can be used to test it. Test selection techniques choose the test cases using models of the program and the bug distribution. Many different test selection techniques have been proposed. Each test s...