Toward Postmodern Risk Analysis1

Toward Precise Plru Cache Analysis1

Schedulability analysis for hard real-time systems requires bounds on the execution times of its tasks. To obtain useful bounds in the presence of caches, cache analysis is mandatory. The subject-matter of this article is the static analysis of the tree-based PLRU cache replacement policy (pseudo least-recently used), for which the precision of analyses lags behind those of other policies. We i...

Reforming Theology: Toward a Postmodern Reformed Dogmatics

Mutagen Sensitivity and Risk of Gliomas: A Case-Control Analysis1

Although the risk factors contributing to the etiology of brain tumors remain largely unknown, this pilot study suggests that genetically deter mined sensitivity to environmental carcinogens may play a role in the pathogenesis of these tumors. In this study, we examined short-term lymphocyte cultures from 45 adult malignant glioma patients and 117 age-, sex-, and ethnicity-matched healthy contr...

Postmodern(ized) Identities Postmodern(ized) Identities (manuskript)

Identity has become a much-used word. The term captures the dilemma of self, for it describes and seems to explain the contradictions of living in a society that appears to be in constant change. Similarly, 'postmodernism', 'postmodernity', and 'postmodern' have become widely-used terms in public life as well as in the social sciences. In this context, indentity-construction and maintenance in ...

Postmodern Design

Although western drama from Ibsen and Strindberg to the late twentieth century is often lumped together under the rubric of "modern drama," it is rare to come across a mention of "modern design." If design styles are discussed at all, it is usually when they are plainly related to identifiable art movements such as Constructivism or Surrealism or various branches of realism-suggestive realism, ...