The goal of the research presented in this paper was to study a new software paradigm ± adaptive software ± in which the structure of an adaptive program is patterned upon the structure of an adaptive controller. Towards this aim, we implemented a domain-speci®c (object/target recognition) program (A Recon®gurable Architecture for Adapting to Changes in the Requirements (RAACR)) that can adapt ...

The KSS nest is a sophisticated choice of puzzle pieces given in [Ann. of Math. 165 (2007), 749–841]. This nest, once combined with the KLLemma, has proven to be a powerful machinery, leading to several important advancements in the field of holomorphic dynamics. We give here a presentation of the KSS nest in terms of tableau. This is an effective language invented by Branner and Hubbard to dea...

The purpose of this study was to compare the clinical effects of patelloplasty and traditional patellar management in total knee arthroplasty (TKA) for osteoarthritis. A total of 152 patients with osteoarthritis treated with TKA between January 2004 and December 2005 were retrospectively studied. The patients were randomly divided into 2 groups: the patelloplasty group (group A; n=76) and the t...

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The Keyword-Set Search System (KSS) is a Peer-to-Peer (P2P) keyword search system that uses a distributed inverted index. The main challenge in a distributed index and search system is finding the right scheme to partition the index across the nodes in the network. The most obvious scheme would be to partition the index by keyword. A keyword partitioned index requires that the list of index ent...