Stabilization - Preserving Atomi ity Re

Convergence Re nement

Re nement tools such as compilers do not necessarily preserve fault-tolerance. That is, given a fault-tolerant program in a high-level language as input, the output of a compiler in a lower-level language will not necessarily be fault-tolerant. In this paper, we identify a special class of re nement, namely \convergence re nement", that preserves the fault-tolerance property of stabilization. W...

Genetic Evaluation of Physiological Functions

Nuclear arms race Mendelsohn shifts blame to U . S . Search fo r peace s till Reagan ’ s goal

This poster o f the la te Soviet President Leon id Reagan com m ents on fu tu re U.S. U.S.S.R. relaBrezhnev, whose death was announced yesterday, tions, an d on page 3 Brezhnev fu n e ra l p la n s and s t i l l stood in Moscow. Lt reads “ The strength o f the C a ro l Cam p’s exclusive in te rv ie w on Brezhnev p a rty is in u n ity w ith the peop le." To the right, reactions are fea tured. (A...

National Influenza Surveillance

Ab stract In 1996 data from labo ra to ries, gen eral prac ti tio ners and a na tional em ployer were com bined to de tect trends in in flu enza ac tiv ity in Aus tra lia. An epi demic of in flu enza A (H3N2) was re corded. Lit tle in flu enza B ac tiv ity was noted through out the win ter months, how ever the number of labo ra tory re ports of in flu enza B rose in the last quar ter of the yea...

THE INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SERVING NOTRE DAME AND SAINT MARY ' S English professor Erskine Peters dies at 49

A loss was dealt to the Notre Dame com­ m u n ity on M arch 9 when the man who helped to encourage c u ltu re d iv e rs ity in the U n ive rs ity ’s c u r­ r ic u lu m as w e ll as N o tre D am e ’s f ir s t spec ia lis t in A frica n A m erican lite ra tu re died. Erskine Peters, 49, was a professor of English and member of the Notre Dame faculty since 1987. He died o f pneumo­ nia in his home...