We know that clinical trials sponsored by the pharmaceutical industry are likely to exaggerate benefit and minimise harms. But do these biases extend to their sponsorship of non-human animal research? Using systematic review and meta-analysis Bero and colleagues show that, in the case of statins, things are a little more complicated. While the conclusions of industry-sponsored studies were inde...

Research reported in this publication was funded by the Office of Sponsored at King Abdullah University Science and Technology (KAUST)

This paper considers the problem of timing analysis for a quite general hard real-time periodic task set on a uniprocessor using fixed priority methods. Periodic tasks are decomposed into serially executed subtasks, where each subtask is characterized by an execution time, a fixed priority, and a deadline. A method for determining the schedulability of each task is presented along with its theo...

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Since its founding, NASA has been dedicated to the advancement of aeronautics and space science. The NASA Scientific and Technical Information (STI) Program Office plays a key part in helping NASA maintain this important role. The NASA STI Program Office is operated by Langley Research Center, the lead center for NASA's scientific and technical information. The NASA STI Program Office provides ...