Biological long-term data series in marine habitats are often used to identify anthropogenic impacts on the environment or climate induced regime shifts. However, particularly in transitional waters, environmental properties like water mass dynamics, salinity variability and the occurrence of oxygen minima not necessarily caused by either human activities or climate change can attenuate or mask...

Achieving long-term graft survival and optimal patient health are ultimate clinical goals in renal transplantation. Many factors negatively impact long-term transplant outcomes, including graft rejection, renal dysfunction and increased cardiovascular burden. Additionally, glucose metabolism disturbance, also a cardiovascular risk factor, influences morbidity and mortality. As such, careful con...

Speculation is frequent in distributed computing. It is even the norm in distributed algorithms that are designed for practical purposes. Yet, speculation is difficult and it has, so far, led to algorithms that are intricate and hard to reason about, let aside prove and test. The reason is simple: speculation involves different execution paths that are usually intermingled in the same algorithm...

Compiler-directed data speculation has been implemented on Itanium systems to allow for a compiler 10 move a load across a store even when the two operations are potentially aliased This not only breaks data dependency to reduce critical path length, but also allows a load to be scheduled far apart from its uses to hide cache miss latencies. However, the effectiveness of data speculation is aff...