during a survey of sindh and punjab provinces of pakistan, two dragonfly genera were collected and identified for the first time from the country. anaciaeshna(family aeshnidae) is a genus of large dragonflies. representatives were collectedfrom gujjo, district thatta (sindh) in august 2008 and were identified as anaciaeshna jaspidea (burmeister). the second genus was epophthalmia (family cordul...

This paper proposes a type-based optimization method that “unboxes” records whenever possible by flattening nested records and changing top-level tuples to multiple value passing. We first develop a type-based algorithm that infers whether each record expression is “rigid” or not, i.e. whether it requires heap allocation or not. This is based on the observation that the changes the representati...

R linkage, in the present context, is simply the bringing together of information from two records that are believed to relate to the same entity—for example, the same individual, the same family, or the same business. This might involve the linking of records within a single database to identify duplicate case records. Alternatively, record linkage might involve the linking of records across t...

introduction: one of the most fundamental duties of him professionals is the duty to maintain health information about their patients. this duty is imposed explicitly by state and federal statuted and regulations as well as by accreditation standards. also one of the most important responsibilities him professionals have is keeping confidential health information out of the hands of unauthorize...