For the treatment of agreement in Dutch NPs I adopt a distinction, familiar from HPSG, between morphosyntactic agreement and index agreement. In order to determine their respective roles, I make another distinction, proposed in Van Eynde (2003), between marked and unmarked nominals. Employing these distinctions, I will demonstrate that the combination of prenominal adjectives and determiners wi...

Consensus and Non-Blocking Atomic Commit (NBAC) are two fundamental distributed problems. The specifications of both problems may lead one to think that they are very similar. However, a black-box solution to any of them is not sufficient to solve the other. This paper presents a family of agreement problems called Managed Agreement, which is parameterized by the number of aristocrat nodes in t...

The concern of this paper is a set of potentially faulty processes that engage in a distributed computation to agree on some piece of information. Each process enters the computation with an initial value. The computation returns a common result value to each correct process. If all correct processes begin the computation with identical initial values, then the result value equals the initial v...

abstract         background and objective: the current challenge of diabetes mellitus is to prevent its complications. these complications are directly associated with hyperglycemia in diabetics. the hba1c measurement is essential for long-term glycemic control. synchronization of hba1c measurement is important in order to avoid discrepancies between results reported by laboratories. this study...