Saving the Tiger

TIGER TRANSFER From LFG Structures to the TIGER Treebank

The Tiger Video Fileserver

Tiger is a distributed, fault-tolerant real-time fileserver. It provides data streams at a constant, guaranteed rate to a large number of clients, in addition to supporting more traditional filesystem operations. It is intended to be the basis for multimedia (video on demand) fileservers, but may also be used in other applications needing constant rate data delivery. The fundamental problem add...

Tiger in the bank

natural resources,” he says. But much of the trade is black, illegal. “A villager in Madagascar for whom a dollar is a day’s salary can take a radiated tortoise, resplendent in its starburst shell, and sell it at a profit of five dollars to a local middleman. That tortoise will be smuggled in a suitcase or false-bottomed crate to a distribution point in Asia, perhaps Singapore or Bangkok, and t...

Saving money, saving lives.

In 1996, Duke Children's Hospital was in serious trouble. Its $11 million annual operating loss had forced administrators to make cutbacks. As a result, some caregivers felt that the quality of care had deteriorated. Parents' complaints were on the rise. Frustrated staff members were quitting. In this article, Jon Meliones, DCH's chief medical director, candidly describes how his debt-ridden ho...

Tiger stripes.

On occasion a high amplitude band-like signal is noted on Doppler spectral recordings of valvular regurgitation (Fig. 1). However, clinically these “tiger stripes” are most often noted with porcine mitral prosthetic valves (Fig. 2), and may be indicative of an acute flail prosthetic leaflet.1–5 These band-like signals appear to be associated with an intracardiac oscillating structure,6 with the...