Viva, The Chicken Hen (June? - November 1985)

Washington University Record, November 7, 1985

The scientific proceedings of "Leishmaniasis: The First Centenary 1885-1985". 9 November 1985.

The man whose name we are honouring today, Colonel D D Cunningham, was born in 1843 and educated at Edinburgh University were he graduated with honours in medicine in 1867. He entered the Indian Medical Service, and during his attendance on the Tropical Diseases Course at the Army Medical School (then located at Netley), his potential as a research scientist was recognised and he was sent to Ge...

The Aaron B. Lerner Symposium. June 22, 1985.

Adib Jatene: June 4, 1929 November 14, 2014

Professor Adib Domingos Jatene, indelible mark of pioneering spirit, honesty, wisdom and accurate surgical technique , left this life on the 14 th of November. It saddened the entire Brazilian nation, impoverished without his striking and distinguished presence, always dedicated to healing the heart of ill patients and Brazil's flaws. Certainly, as Socrates, Professor Jatene is not dead! He wil...

The Viva File System

This paper describes the Viva File System or VIFS, a technique for highperformance file allocation on disks. VIFS uses bitmaps to represent both free blocks on the disk and allocated blocks in each file. Allocation bitmaps provide a very fast method of finding blocks close to the last allocated block in a file. Fragments (partial blocks) are used to store the overflow from the last file block; ...