Vive La Différence: Paxos vs. Viewstamped Replication vs. Zab

Vive la Différence: Paxos vs. Viewstamped Replication vs. Zab

Paxos, Viewstamped Replication, and Zab are replication protocols that ensure high-availability in asynchronous environments with crash failures. Various claims have been made about similarities and differences between these protocols. But how does one determine whether two protocols are the same, and if not, how significant the differences are? We propose to address these questions using refin...

Vive la différence: males vs females in flies vs worms.

For 600 million years, the two best-understood metazoan species, the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans and fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, have developed independent strategies for solving a biological problem faced by essentially all metazoans: how to generate two sexes in the proper proportions. The genetic program for sexual dimorphism has been a major focus of research in these two organis...

Political Marketing – Vive La Différence!

Introduction The explicit use of techniques in politics which we would now describe as marketing dates back at least to 1920 in Britain (Wring, 1994). Since the Saatchi and Saatchi poster – “Labour isn’t working” – it has become commonplace to speak of political marketing, and many marketers have come to believe that there is a direct transference of their concepts and tools to the political ar...

Plant Asymmetric Cell Division, Vive la Différence!

Although little is known about how asymmetric cell division in plants is regulated, recent discoveries provide a starting point for exploring the mechanisms underlying this process. These studies reveal parallels with asymmetric division in yeast and animals, but also point to regulated cell expansion as a new mechanism of asymmetric division in plants.

The Nutrition Society journals: vive la différence!