TCP sockets are an important and ubiquitous construct. In order to better understand the behaviour of programs using TCP sockets, we have developed instrumentation that transparently collects information about each socket and graphically displays it as a single, unified view. This paper will describe the instrumentation which leverages an existing tool, POET (Partial-Order Event Tracer), to dis...

BACKGROUND Over the last few decades, biomedical HIV prevention research had engaged multiple African stakeholders. There have however been few platforms to enable regional stakeholders to engage with one another. In partnership with the World AIDS Campaign International, the Institute of Public Health of Obafemi Awolowo University, and the National Agency for the Control of AIDS in Nigeria, th...

1 Michael Garvin, Columbia University, 638 Mudd, MC 4709, 500 W. 120 th St., New York, NY 10027, [email protected] 2 Andrew Smyth, Columbia University, 636 Mudd, MC 4709, 500 W. 120 St., New York, NY 10027, [email protected] 3 Peter Sommer, Columbia University, 603 Lewisohn, New York, NY 10027, [email protected] 4 Upmanu Lall, Columbia University, 840 Mudd, MC 4709, 500 W. 120 ...

In the context of current debate regarding Hoshangabad Science Teaching Programme and the decision to discontinue the programme in the district of Hoshangabad and elsewhere, the Government of Madhya Pradesh has expressed a desire to improve Science Teaching in all the schools of Madhya Pradesh. It has asked Eklavya to submit a proposal to mainstream the learnings from the HSTP. This concept pap...

The Global Smokefree Partnership has recently prepared a map of smokefree campaigns and policies around the world. It focuses primarily on countries that are parties to the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, but other countries were included. The smokefree status of 172 countries was mapped. Of these countries, 31 (18.0%) have established comprehensive smokefree policies, either natio...

Pursuant to the Polish Act on tax civil law transactions, transformation of a general partnership into another type may be taxed if it causes an increase partnership’s assets value (which is established as result transformation). This means that remains unchanged, if, part transformation, there no partners’ contributions. In such situation, not taxable with transactions. The dominating in judic...

regarding the fiscal constraints and management difficulties of public hospitals, several countries have usedpublic private partnership model to improve their health facilities. public private partnership enables using public resources and private investment and expertise in a combined structure. moheb hospital is the first iranian hospital managed according to public private-partnership. the p...