Fast checkpointing algorithms require distributed access to stable storage. This paper revisits the approach based upon double checkpointing, and compares the blocking algorithm of Zheng, Shi and Kalé [23], with the non-blocking algorithm of Ni, Meneses and Kalé [15] in terms of both performance and risk. We also extend the model proposedcan provide a better efficiency in [23, 15] to assess the...

The paper describes one new species, i.e. Conanalus bilobus sp. nov., and provides additional information on Conanalus brevicaudus Shi, Mao & Ou, 2008 (including female description for the first time), and Conanalus robustus Shi, Mao & Ou, 2008 from Yunnan, as well as illustrations of important morphological characters of Conanalus axinus Shi, Wang & Fu, 2005. A distribution map of the species ...

The Shi arrangement Sn is the arrangement of affine hyperplanes in R n of the form xi−xj = 0 or 1, for 1 ≤ i < j ≤ n. It dissects R n into (n+1) regions, as was first proved by Shi. We give a simple bijective proof of this result. Our bijection generalizes easily to any subarrangement of Sn containing the hyperplanes xi − xj = 0 and to the extended Shi arrangements.

Masakazu IWAMURA†, Seiichi UCHIDA††, Shinichiro OMACHI†††, and Koichi KISE† † Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka Prefecture University 1–1 Gakuencho, Sakai-shi, Osaka, 599–8531 Japan †† Faculty of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University Hakozaki 6-10-1, Higashi-ku, Fukuoka-shi, 812-8581 Japan ††† Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University 6–6–05 Aoba, Aramaki...

This paper shows that patients with private health insurance (PHI) are being offered significantly shorter waiting times than patients with statutory health insurance (SHI) in German acute hospital care. This behavior may be driven by the higher expected profitability of PHI relative to SHI holders.Further,we find that hospitals offering private insurees shorter waiting times as compared to SHI...

†Graduate School of Engineering, Tohoku University Aoba 6-6-05, Aramaki, Aoba-ku, Sendai-shi, 980-8579 Japan E-mail: [email protected] ††Graduate School of Engineering, Osaka Prefecture University 1-1 Gakuen-cho, Naka-ku, Sakai-shi, Osaka, 599-8531 Japan E-mail: {masa, kise}@cs.osakafu-u.ac.jp †††Faculty of Information Science and Electrical Engineering, Kyushu University 744 Motooka, Nis...

nanoparticles classified in 4 overall groups containing: metallic nanoparticles, ceramic nanoparticles, polymeric nanoparticles and semiconductor nanoparticles. these nanoparticles are used in some biomedical applications such as carrying medicine and photographing agents. with attention to different criteria which are both qualitative and quantitative, selecting the most suitable nanoparticles...

OBJECTIVE To describe the epidemiology, clinical manifestations and evolutive characteristics of pediatric patients with severe head injury (SHI). MATERIAL AND METHOD A review was made of the patients admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) with SHI between July 1983 and December 2009. RESULTS Of the 389 patients with head injuries admitted to the PICU during the study period, ...