BACKGROUND Electronic activity monitors (such as those manufactured by Fitbit, Jawbone, and Nike) improve on standard pedometers by providing automated feedback and interactive behavior change tools via mobile device or personal computer. These monitors are commercially popular and show promise for use in public health interventions. However, little is known about the content of their feedback ...

The purpose of this chapter is twofold. The primary purpose is to revisit Ned Block’s distinction between phenomenal consciousness and access consciousness. The secondary purpose is to examine key case studies from consciousness research in the cognitive sciences. Block has argued that what he calls phenomenal consciousness and access consciousness are completely independent phenomena, and that...

Users’ move from single to multiple monitors so that they can use more screen real estate. This increase enables them to keep a greater number of windows open and visible at the same time. But there is a cost: arranging a window takes far longer since there is more screen space to traverse and more relationships between windows to take into account. To address this we added ‘bumping’ to an appl...

Programming with Java monitors is recognized to be difficult, and potentially inefficient due to many useless context switches induced by the notifyAll primitive. This paper presents SOM, Sequential Object Monitors, as an alternative to programming with Java monitors. Reifying monitor method calls as requests, and providing full access to the pending request queue, gives rise to fully sequentia...

In most real world systems, objects vastly outnumbers threads. This paper shows how this characteristic can be used to implement efficient JavaTMmonitors in a way that reduces the number of needed monitors to be equal to the number of threads, while fulfilling the JavaTMsynchronized semantics. Some additional benefits related to priority inheritance and hierarchical resource locking will also b...

A web monitor is a program used to monitor some public HTML-based Internet information available from dynamic HTML documents on the Internet based on a user defined set of criteria. It is able to deal with public information available on the Internet on a single or multiple websites as a set of variables which the user uses to define some required notification conditions. The monitored informat...

In a global sense it is not difficult to agree that anyone wo contributes to the growth and development be it somatic, intellectual, educational or any other form is a mentor. There is no argument that the parents, teachers, coaches, special skill instructors and other similarly engaged individuals can collectively be viewed as mentors They probably instill more important formative traits than ...

Coordination of parallel activities on a shared memory machine is a crucial issue for modern software, even more with the advent of multi-core processors. Unfortunately, traditional concurrency abstractions force programmers to tangle the application logic with the synchronization concern, thereby compromising understandability and reuse, and fall short when fine-grained and expressive strategi...

Some properties of beamstrahlung are discussed, and plans to observe the effect at SLC by the use of Cherenkov counters are illustrated. Invited talk presented at the International Conference on Advances in Experimental Methods for Colliding Beam Physics, Stanford, California, March 9-13, 1987 * Work supported by the Department of Energy, contract DE A C 0 3 7 6 SF 00 5 15.

monitors will be their Digital provides two different application transaction processing programming interfaces. (TP) monitor productsIntroduction ACMS (Application Control Transaction processing and Management System) is the execution of and DECintact (Integrated an application that Application Control). performs an administrative Each monitor is a unified function by accessing a set of transa...