STM Committee Update

An Update on Haskell H/STM

At TRANSACT 2014 we described plans and a preliminary implementation for a hybrid TM for the Glasgow Haskell Compiler. Here we give an update on our work and new performance results on a 72-thread Intel Haswell system showing that hardware transactional memory can improve the performance of Haskell TM at realistic scales. We describe our constant space approach to supporting transaction blockin...

Update From the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices.

The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), a group of medical and public health experts, meets 3 times per year to develop recommendations for vaccine use in the United States. The group has 15 voting members, and each member's term is 4 years. ACIP members and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) staff discuss the epidemiology of vaccine-preventable diseases and vacci...

Development of State-and-Transition Models (STM): Integrating Ecosystem Function, Structure and Energy to STM

The main objective of an ecosystem sustainable management is to preserve itscapacity to respond and adapt to current disturbances and/or future changes, and maintain theprovision of environmental goods and services. Two very important properties linked to thisobjective are the ecosystem resilience and resistance to disturbance factors. The objective ofthis paper is to recommend conceptual modif...

Editorial Committee:

STM Commentary v02

C R E D IT : A . F O ST E R INTRODUCTION Age is the greatest risk factor for most major chronic diseases in the industrialized world and to an increasing degree in the developing world. After adolescent development, functionality declines progressively with age (1), and mortality rates increase exponentially, doubling roughly every 7 to 8 years after puberty. This exponentiality manifests as a ...