In this paper we use the concept of resource cumulation to model various forms of computation. The space of cumulations (called a cumulator) is simply represented as a five tuple consisting of a well-founded partial order, a monoid and a volume function. The volume function is introduced to simplify reasoning about limit points and other topological properties. A specification command is a set ...

When an update to a view is requested by a user, there may be no unique way of up dating the stored relations in the database to realize the requested update. Chosing one of the alternatives for updating stored relations may not reflect the change that has actually taken place in the real world; in the presence of other derived views, the database may actually present a very wrong model of the ...

The terms "cumulative" and "cumulative effects" are becoming more widely used in environmental impact assessment. The popularity of the concept is understandable as our culture comes to recognize that solitary insults to the environment considered in isolation cannot capture the full effect of the problems now before us. But what exactly do we mean by the term "cumulative"? "Cumulative" means g...

The cumulative cyber deterrence can be seen as a concept in which increasing the weight of different means and their use increases deterrent effect on common level or selected adversaries. Cumulative may include all traditional options deterrence, active passive. Active characterized targeting specific threats actors, consisting several methods, while passive is form commonly targeted at potent...

BACKGROUND Enteral nutrition (EN) is associated with improved outcome in critically ill patients and is more affordable. We compared nutritional care practice in our ICU before and after modification of our nutrition support protocol: Several comprehensive documents were substituted with one flow chart and early EN was encouraged. DESIGN Retrospective observational study. METHODS Nutritiona...

We propose a web-based tool (SART: http://regstattools.net/sart.html) that automates calculations to obtain various population indicators that can be used for the control of diseases or health events. SART has four modules: a) a descriptive module that allows calculation of the number of cases and their percentage, the crude rate, the adjusted rate, the truncated rate and the cumulative rate; b...

Methods The Ethics Committee approved the study protocol. The contractile response of human IMA (n=6) and SV strips (n = 6) with and without endothelium, suspended in organ baths, bubbled with 95% O2 + 5% CO2 which were subjected to cumulative concentrations of 10-9 – 10-6 M dexmedetomidine were recorded at 37oC and at 28oC. The results were expressed as percentage of maximum contraction to phe...