Abstract Distributed algorithms solving agreement problems like consensus or state machine replication are essential components of modern fault-tolerant distributed services. They also notoriously hard to understand and reason about. Their complexity stems from the different assumptions on environment they operate with, i.e., process network link failures, Byzantine failures etc. In this paper,...

we want to compare the efficacy and safety of vaginal versus sublingual misoprostol for cervical ripening and induction of labor. this randomized clinical trial was performed on 140 women with medical or obstetric indications for labor induction. the patients were randomly divided into two groups: vaginal and sublingual administration of misoprostol. in first group, 25 µg misoprostol was placed...

to evaluate the maternal serum dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate level as a factor associated with the outcome of labor induction. venous blood was collected from 45 women at the initiation of labor induction. pregnancies complicated by maternal corticosteriod use, anterpartum chorioamnionitis, or cesarean delivery for indications other than arrest disorders, were excluded from analysis. in 42 wom...

induction motors are the most commonly used in the traction industries and electric vehicles, due to their low primary cost, low maintenance costs, and good performance. speed identification is needed for the induction motor drives. however, using of speed sensors in the induction motor drives is associated with problems such as, extra cost, reduced reliability, added mounting space, etc.. ther...

The performance and hardware complexity of superscalar architectures is hindered by conditional branch instructions. When conditional branches are encountered in a program, the instruction fetch unit must rapidly predict the branch predicate and begin speculatively fetching instructions with no loss of instruction throughput. Speculative execution increases hardware cost, since speculative inst...

One of the main principles in hand surgery is the restitution of sensation in fingers which seems hard or impossible in extensive hand traumas especially in war injuries. In this article transfer of sensory branch of radial nerve to sensory branch of median (in 25 cases) and to sensory branch of ulnar nerve (for the first time in literature and in 12 cases) is reported. Operative technics and r...

We examine a sequential mechanism which is a simple modification of the normal form mechanism introduced by Abreu and Matsushima (1992). We show that almost any social choice function can be virtually implemented via a finite sequential game of perfect information. The solution concept assumed is backwards induction. In particular, any social choice function that is virtually implementable via ...

Forward induction is the notion that players in a game assume, even when confronted with an unexpected event, that their opponents chose rationally in the past and will choose rationally in the future. This paper modifies Govindan and Wilson’s (2009, Econometrica 77(1), 1-28) definition of forward induction and constructs an admissible, invariant forward induction equilibrium concept for genera...