Irregular parallel applications, whose data and communication patterns are determined only at run-time, often requires good dynamic resource management (DRM) tailored to the application and/or hardware architecture for e cient execution. To easily provide such DRM system, this paper proposes an object-oriented concurrent re ective language ABCL/R3. In ABCL/R3, various DRM systems including sche...

Irregular parallel applications, whose data and communication patterns are determined only at run-time, often requires good dynamic resource management (DRM) tailored to the application and/or hardware architecture for e cient execution. To easily provide such DRM system, this paper proposes an object-oriented concurrent re ective language ABCL/R3. In ABCL/R3, various DRM systems including sche...

Family members of intensive care patients may experience stressors that threaten both personal health and family integrity. This study found that family members endure multiple concurrent stressors and exhibit numerous behavioral responses, including changes in eating, sleeping, activity, and family roles and responsibilities. Nurses can promote family integrity with interventions that address ...

Background: Obesity is associated with increased oxidative stress. In addition, exercise can increase oxidative stress effects. However, the use of dietary supplements may moderate these indices. Objective: The present study is conducted to assess the effect of flaxseed supplementation on the total antioxidant capacity and lipid peroxidation after four weeks concurrent training in overweight w...

Synchrony continues to be an important concern in concurrent programming. Existing languages and models have introduced a great variety of constructs for expressing and managing synchronization among sequential processes or atomic actions. This paper puts forth a model in which synchrony is viewed as a relation among atomic actions, a relation which may evolve with time. The model is shown to b...

This thesis shows that abstractions provided by current mainstream Object Oriented (OO) languages are not enough to address the modularization of distributed and concurrent algorithms, protocols, or architectures. In particular, we show that code implementing concurrent and distributed algorithms is scattered and tangled in the main implementation of JBoss Cache, a real industrial middleware ap...

Few studies have investigated the prospective associations between diet or drinking patterns and abdominal obesity; we therefore investigated whether food and beverage groups or patterns predicted 6-year changes in waist circumference (WC) and whether these associations were independent of concurrent changes in BMI as a measure of general obesity. The subjects were 2300 middle-aged men and wome...

BACKGROUND Although the links between poverty and health have often been studied , the dynamics of poverty and physical health in early childhood remain under-investigated. In particular, it is not known whether the health of young children is affected differently from that of adults by patterns of poverty unique to them. METHODS We examined patterns of health from 5 to 41 months of age as a ...

Testing concurrent programs remains a difficult task due to the non-deterministic nature of concurrent execution. Many approaches have been proposed to tackle the complexity of uncovering potential concurrency bugs. Static analysis tackles the problem by analyzing a concurrent program looking for situations/patterns that might lead to possible errors during execution. In general, static analysi...

African adolescents and young adults remain at substantial risk of infection with HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs), and AIDS is the leading cause of death among African adolescents (10-19 years). Sexual partnership patterns influence transmission risk of sexually transmitted infections. We describe patterns reported by youth (15-30y) in a community-based survey in Tanzania. ...