Surviving on call

Surviving Merger Commercial Bank Mergers on Rural

For over 50 years in the middle of the 20’h century we had financial institutions that were bounded geographically as well as by type of product or service. They were insulated from other financial and non-financial institutions by restrictive charters and by regulations designed to limit competition between charters. All of this was in the name of safety and soundness, an outgrowth of the fina...

Surviving information warfare attacks on databases

We consider the problem of surviving information warfare attacks on databases. We adopt a fault tolerance approach to the different phases of an attack. To maintain precise information about the attack, we mark data to reflect the severity of detected damage as well as the degree to which the damaged data has been repaired. In the case of partially repaired data, integrity constraints might be ...

Surviving anoxia with the brain turned on.

Crucian carp is one of few vertebrates that tolerate anoxia. It maintains brain ATP during anoxia partially by reducing ATP consumption. However, unlike turtles, which become comatose during anoxia, this fish remains physically active. This striking difference in anoxic survival strategy is reflected all the way down to the cellular level.

Surviving torture.

On-call addiction.

©FSRH J Fam Plann Reprod Health Care 2010: 36(2) No no no no no no no. NO. I am not going to do on my own out-of-hours at night, or on the weekends for that matter. You must be high on some mind-altering chemical if you think I’m going back to something it took me over 10 years to kick. Like all addicts, I hadn’t chosen to become addicted to out-of-hours. My peers had introduced me to it. Go on...