This paper examines the relative effectiveness of fixed priority non-pre-emptive scheduling (FP-NP) in a uniprocessor system, compared to an optimal workconserving non-pre-emptive algorithm; Earliest Deadline First (EDF-NP). The quantitative metric used in this comparison is the processor speedup factor, defined as the factor by which processor speed needs to increase to ensure that any taskset...

We studied 32 patients undergoing bilateral symmetrical lower third molar surgery under general anaesthesia to determine if the combined effects of pre-emptive local anaesthetic block using 0.5% bupivacaine, together with i.v. tenoxicam and alfentanil had any benefits over postoperative administration. Patients acted as their own controls and were allocated randomly to have surgery start on one...

various criteria are involved impacting trend of art and literature in a society. socio-political infrastructure and changes within it are of the parameters affecting literature in a society. in 19th century in iran, literature and poetry in particular was reformed fundamentally under impact of socio political structure. courtier poetry was replaced by practical protest one to achieve this whil...

It has been suggested that there may be some advantage in pre-emptive administration of analgesics, which may be of some relevance in day-surgery. Post-operative pain control is often difficult due to the reluctance to use potent analgesics, whose side effects include nausea and vomiting, which are an important cause of delayed discharge. In order to test the potential beneficial effects of pre...

This study investigates the effects of lidocaine pre-emptive treatment on neuropathic pain behavior, injury discharges of nerves, neuropeptide Y (NPY) and c-Fos expression in the cuneate nucleus (CN) after median nerve chronic constriction injury (CCI). Behavior tests demonstrated that the pre-emptive lidocaine treatment dose dependently delayed and attenuated the development of mechanical allo...

If we want to give an account of the relation between those truths which have truthmakers and those portions of reality which make them true, a good place to start is with the notion of necessitation, which can be defined thus: x necessitates p if and only if: x exists and (that x exists entails that p). It is then tempting to embrace a simple definition of truthmaking along the following lines...

An epidemic of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in a FMD-free country with large exports of livestock and livestock products would result in profound economic damage. This could be reduced by rapid and efficient control of the disease spread. The objectives of this study were to estimate the economic impact of a hypothetical FMD outbreak in Denmark based on changes to the economic assumptions of th...