Context-aware applications, as a typical type of self-adaptive software systems, are receiving increasing attention. These applications continually adapt to environmental changes in an autonomic way. However, their adaptation may contain defects when the complexity of modeling all environmental changes is beyond a developer’s ability. Such defects can cause failure to the adaptation and result ...

The first surgical procedure, as is well known, was that performed by God on Adam. According to the Torah, God "caused unconsciousness to fall upon Adam and he slept";1 that is, God administercd an anesthetic to Adam, and then performed an operation somewhat akin to a Siamese section. The result of this was the formation of the first male and the first female. Rashi, consistent with the Talmud,...

This work presents the dynamic response of a pavement plate resting on a soil whose inertia is taken into account in the design of pavements by rational methods. Thus, the pavement is modeled as a thin plate with finite dimensions, supported longitudinally by dowels and laterally by tie bars. The subgrade is modeled via Pasternak-Vlasov type (three-parameter type) foundation models and the movi...