Round L-theory

A Theory of Life in the Round

This study addresses ways in which inmates at the only maximum-security prison for women in Neuse City (in the northeastern United States) redefine their social world in order to survive incarceration. An aim of the project is to engage in theory building in order to examine the experiences of a world that is “lived in the round.” A life in the round is a public form of life. It is a lifestyle ...

THE ROUND COMPLEXITY OF l - S 0 LVABLE TASKS

A distributed task T is I-solvable if there exists a protocol that solves it in the presence of (at most) one crash failure. A precise characterization of the I-solvable tasks was given in [BMZ]. In this paper we detennine the number of rounds of communication that are required, in the worst case, by a protocol which I-solves a given I-solvable task T for n processors. We define the radius R(T)...

Visible L - Theory

The visible symmetric L-groups are a refinement of the symmetric L-groups of Mishchenko [12] and Ranicki [15]. They are much easier to compute, although they hardly differ from the symmetric L-groups in their formal properties. Cappell and Shaneson [3] use the visible symmetric L-groups in studying 4-dimensional s-cobordisms; see also Kwasik and Schultz [8]. The visible symmetric L-groups are r...

Robert L . “ A Theory

“What goes round comes round”

Soon after the discovery of x-rays by Roentgen, radioactivity by Becquerel, and radium by the Curies, it was concluded that x-rays could not only be used for diagnostic purposes but also for therapy [1,2]. In the early years of radiation therapy, physicians had little understanding or knowledge of the physical nature and biological effects of radiation, the delivered doses were not certain, the...