Introduction: Maternity services were disrupted during nationwide COVID-19 lock down period. This study aimed to evaluate the impact of on antenatal visits and obstetric outcomes in a tertiary hospital Nepal.
 Method: A was conducted at Patan hospital, Nepal with regard lockdown period (24th March 14th June 2020) compared non 2019). Chi-square test used determine association between outcom...

In this work, we aim to evaluate different Distributed Lock Management service designs with Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA). In specific, we implement and evaluate the centralized and the RDMAenabled lock manager designs for fast network settings. Experimental results confirms a couple of hypotheses. First, in the traditional centralized lock manager design, CPU is the bottleneck and bypassi...

Data race conditions in multi-tasking software applications are prevented by serializing access to shared memory resources, ensuring data consistency and deterministic behavior. Traditionally tasks acquire and release locks to synchronize operations on shared memory. Unfortunately, lock management can add significant processing overhead especially for multicore deployments where tasks on differ...

We consider non-blocking synchronization for dynamic embedded real-time systems such as those that are subject to resource overloads and arbitrary activity arrivals. The multi-writer/multi-reader problem inherently occurs in such systems, when their activities must concurrently and mutually exclusive share data objects. We consider lock-free synchronization for this problem under the unimodal a...

Lock-free programming is a well-known technique for multithreaded programming. Lock-free programming is a way to share changing data among several threads without paying the cost of acquiring and releasing locks. On practice, parallel programming models must include scalable concurrent algorithms and patterns. Lock-free programming patterns play an important role in scalability. This paper is d...

In the last fteen years, lock managers for regular disk-based database systems have seen little change. This is not without reason, since traditional memory-resident lock managers have always been much faster than disk-based database storage managers and disk-based database systems had few alternative design options. However, the introduction of memory-resident database systems has created both...

A versatile, low-cost, digital signal processor (DSP) based lock-in module with external reference is described. This module is used to implement an industrial spectrophotometer for measuring spectral transmission and reflection of automotive and architectonic coating glasses over the ultraviolet, visible and near-infrared wavelength range. The light beams are modulated with an optical chopper....