TENDER FOR CONTRACT BY MEDICAL MEN.

A framework for economic scheduling in Grid computing using tender/Contract-net model

In Grid computing, the resources of many machines are used to execute jobs submitted by users. One of the research issues in Grid is the allocation process; the mapping of jobs to the various resources. This paper addresses the concept of applying strategies to the scheduling task. To this end a framework for economic scheduling in Grid computing using Tender/Contract-net model is presented. Th...

Frequency of counterstrain tender points in osteopathic medical students.

CONTEXT Counterstrain is 1 osteopathic manipulative treatment technique taught to osteopathic medical students, but teaching all 300 counterstrain tender points is not feasible at most colleges of osteopathic medicine (COMs) because of time limitations. OBJECTIVE To identify high-yield tender points in osteopathic medical students for teaching and to assess for correlations between tender poi...

Lunacy Law for Medical Men

Dr. Mercier's name is so well known in lunacy that we felt confident that a book dealing with the Lunacy Law from his hands would be valuable. This book, though small, is yet so excellent and systematic in its arrangement, and so lucid in the setting forth of its subject, that no medical man using it as his guide need doubt his ability to understand the Lunacy Act of 1890 so far as is necessary...

Design by Contract for Python

The idea of design by contract (DBC), realized in the statically typed object-oriented programming language Eiffel, can be viewed as a systematic approach to specifying and implementing object-oriented software systems. We believe that a statically typed programming language is not suitable in the analysis and design phase of a prototyping-oriented software life cycle. For this purpose, dynamic...

Medical malpractice and the contract/tort boundary.