UNI-Bums: Killing Time

Real-Time Workload Allocation on a Uni-Processor

The paper presents a novel allocation algorithm to allocate independent real time tasks on a processor in a way that improves the processor's throughput (Processor's throughput is the number of tasks the processor can accept for execution). The proposed approach allocates tasks' workloads (task's workload is the percentage of work required by the processor to execute the tas...

A Scheduling Real-time Garbage Collection on Uni-Processors

Managed languages such as Java and C# are increasingly being considered for real-time applications. From both technical and scientific standpoints the most interesting challenge this presents is how to reconcile efficiency and predictability in the memory management subsystem of these languages. To relieve programmers from having to deal with deallocation of data structures and to eradicate mem...

Preemptive and Non-Preemptive Real-Time Uni-Processor Scheduling

Local Time and the Uni cation of PhysicsPart

The notions of time in the theories of Newton and Einstein are reviewed so that the diiculty which impedes the uniication of quantum mechanics (QM) and general relativity (GR) is clariied. It is seen that GR by itself contains an intrinsic diiculty relating to the deenition of local clocks, as well as that GR still requires a kind of absolute that can serve as an objective reference standard. W...

Consensus on the pre-hospital approach to bums patient management.

Burns patients form a large group of trauma patients cared for by first-aiders, ambulance staff, nurses and doctors before reaching specialist care in hospital. Guidance for these important carers is often poor or confused and this engenders anxiety and detracts from optimal patient care. This paper outlines nine key steps in the initial management of burn patients in the pre-hospital environme...