Stampede is a parallel programming system to support computationally demanding applications including interactive vision, speech and multimedia collaboration. The system alleviates concerns such as communication, synchronization, and buffer management in programming such realtime stream-oriented applications. Threads are loosely connected by channels which hold streams of items, each identified...

We demonstrate a method for describing data-flow analyses based program optimizations as compositional type systems with a transformation component. Analysis results are presented in terms of types ascribed to expressions and statements, certifiable by type derivations, and the transformation component carries out the optimizations that the type derivations license. We describe dead code elimin...

To the Editor: In a recent issue of Critical Care Medicine, with interest we read the article by Dhanani et al (1), concerning vital signs after circulatory arrest following withdrawal of lifesustaining therapy. The article has timely given the persistent controversy regarding criteria of death in circulatory death organ donors. How many minutes after circulatory arrest can we consider the pati...

Contemporary intensive care unit (ICU) medicine has complicated the issue of what constitutes death in a life support environment. Not only is the distinction between sapient life and prolongation of vital signs blurred but the concept of death itself has been made more complex. The demand for organs to facilitate transplantation promotes a strong incentive to define clinical death in a manner ...

Spectral vegetation indices have been the primary resources for characterizing grassland vegetation based on remotely sensed data. However, the use of spectral indices for vegetation characterization in grasslands has been challenged by the confounding effects from external factors, such as soil properties, dead materials, and shadowing of vegetation canopies. Dead materials refer to the dead c...

More than sixty years of intensive research on the Dead Sea Scrolls have not yet yielded up a satisfactory identity for the mysterious Teacher of Righteousness. This paper claims the simplest yet most plausible argument so far for an identity. The results of a comprehensive inferential survey are first discussed, followed by the argument that the murdered Onias III is the first Teacher of Right...

the present study aims at discussing whether metaphors in the qur’an, revealed more than 1400 years ago, are dead, moribund or live and how these three types of metaphors have been translated in three english and three persian translations of the qur’an. the results reveal that among 70 metaphors examined, while only about 32.85% are live metaphors, about 67.14% are moribund, but none of the ca...

BACKGROUND A dead region is a region in the cochlea where the inner hair cells and/or neurons are functioning very poorly, if at all. We have shown that, for people with sensorineural hearing loss, thresholds for detecting sinusoidal amplitude modulation (AM) of a sinusoidal carrier were lower for ears with high-frequency dead regions, as diagnosed using the threshold-equalizing noise test, cal...

Hygienic and grooming behaviors of native and exotic honeybee races reared in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia were investigated. Both races exhibited different rates of hygienic behavior. After 24 h the removal of dead brood in native race was significantly higher than that of exotic one being 85.28 and 43.84%, respectively. However, after 48 h the native race significantly removed 97.60% of brood, while ...

BACKGROUND Anatomic dead space (also called airway or tracheal dead space) is the part of the tidal volume that does not participate in gas exchange. Some contemporary ventilation protocols, such as the Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Network protocol, call for smaller tidal volumes than were traditionally delivered. With smaller tidal volumes, the percentage of each delivered breath that i...