A natural way to benefit from distribution is via asynchronous invocations to methods or services. Upon invocation, a request is enqueued at the destination side and the caller can continue its execution. But a question remains: “what if one wants to manipulate the result of an asynchronous invocation?” First-class futures provide a transparent and easy-to-program answer: a future acts as the p...

In this paper, we characterize the boundedness and compactness of weighted composition operator from Bers-type space to Bloch-type space on the unit ball of Cn. 2010 Mathematics Subject Classification: Primary: 47B38; Secondary: 32A37, 32A38, 32H02, 47B33

Thurston’s ending lamination conjecture proposes that a finitelygenerated Kleinian group is uniquely determined (up to isometry) by the topology of its quotient and a list of invariants that describe the asymptotic geometry of its ends. We present a proof of this conjecture for punctured-torus groups. These are free two-generator Kleinian groups with parabolic commutator, which should be though...

Extracorporeal membrane oxygenators are comprised of large bundles of microporous hollow ®ber membranes (HFMs) across which oxygen and carbon dioxide are transferred to and from blood. Long term use of extracorporeal oxygenators is limited by plasma leakage through the pores of the HFM walls, requiring replacement of the oxygenator. Condensation of water vapor on the pore walls is thought to be...

Introduction. In an important survey article [BIO] Bers reported on the state of knowledge of Teichmüller theory. There has been a lot of progress in the field since that time. The purpose of this paper is to summarize the recent work in one area of Teichmüller space theory. We will concentrate on the hyperbolic properties of Teichmüller spaces, and present as many consequences of this hyperbol...