My research interests cover several areas of building and measuring complex systems, including operating systems, distributed systems, compilers, and networks. The core theme of my research is harnessing the enormous potential for large-scale computing environments, such as workstation clusters and Internet service platforms. My research often takes the approach of reevaluating programming inte...

This essay discusses several issues involving the theory of post-conflict reconstruction, and suggests that the concepts of reconstruction and of economic development be carefully kept apart. It explores the question of what moral and legal obligations to reconstruction the occupiers incur. Using Iraq as a case study it presents two scenarios for reconstruction: a ‘triage’ approach which relies...

The past decade has seen tremendous growth in both the volume of data and the complexity of analyses that organizations want to perform. Increasingly, these analyses are not performed by experienced database administrators but by domain experts that need simple ways to process their data without worrying about scalability and management limitations. To be useful for these users, new systems mus...

There is a long and rich history of research and control in the field of schistosomiasis that has resulted in major scientific and public health accomplishments. Examples of such findings and accomplishments include immunologic regulation in chronic infections, the association of helminth infections with Th1-regulating Th2-type immune responses, the critical role of interleukin-13 in fibrogenes...

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Submit Manuscript | http://medcraveonline.com us call them collectively the “liberty and equality paradigm1”are incapable of this, and the postcolonialist bellyaching that has accompanied them in recent decades do not allow such steps to be taken proudly and resolutely. The hesitancy, reluctance, and contrition that characterize the actions of Europeans are largely rooted in these approaches. W...

The article provides a review of the adoption of a resource-based view of the firm (RBV) in eBusiness literature and, then, suggests directions for future research. First, a distinction is drawn between Internet resources and eBusiness capabilities. Second, the relationship between Internet resources and eBusiness value is emphasized. Third, the relationships among Internet resources, eBusiness...

In October 2006, the Chief Medical Officer (CMO) of England asked Professor Sir John Tooke to chair a High Level Group on Clinical Effectiveness in response to the chapter 'Waste not, want not' in the CMOs 2005 annual report 'On the State of the Public Health'. The high level group made recommendations to the CMO to address possible ways forward to improve clinical effectiveness in the UK Natio...

Mobility modelling is an essential component of wireless and mobile networking research. Our proposed Agenda Driven Mobility Model takes into consideration a person’s social activities in the form of agenda (when, where and what) for motion generation. The model provides a framework for translating social agendas into a mobile world. Using the data from National Household Travel Survey (NHTS) o...