At a recent Editorial Board meeting of Critical Care that was held in conjunction with the International Symposium of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine in Brussels, there was a fairly lively discussion about the Pro–Con section of the journal. Despite data demonstrating that the diverse and provocative Pro–Con debates published over the years have been popular, there was a sense they could ...

Although IPC has become really fast it is still too slow on certain processors. Two examples motivating even faster IPC, critical sections in real-time applications and multi-threaded servers, are briefly discussed below. Critical sections in real-time applications suffer from the wellknown priority-inversion problem [7]. Multiple solutions have been proposed, e.g. priority inheritance (which i...

RTOS based embedded systems are designed with priority based multiple tasks. Inter task communication and data corruptions are major constraints in multi-tasking RTOS system. This study we describe about the solution for these issues with an example Real-time Liquid level control system. Message queue and Mail box are used to perform inter task communication to improve the task execution time a...

in his post-critical writing, particularly prolegomena and both versions of preface in critique of pure reason, kant explains the importance and core function of mathematical antinomy in his philosophical project. this essay reviews and analyses the history and function of antinomies of pure reason, particularly mathematical antinomies and poses an account on kant’s proof for first and second a...

Home-based Lazy Release Consistency (HLRC) shows poor performance on lock based applications because of two reasons: (1) a whole page is fetched on a page fault while actual modification is much smaller, and (2) a home is at the fixed location while access pattern is migratory. In this paper we present an efficient lock protocol for HLRC. In this protocol, the pages that are expected to be used...

This paper presents a strategy for high-speed prototyping on FPGAs. The traditional ”glue” synthesis strategy may not be sufficient for obtaining FPGA prototypes working at real speed. A key possibility to accelerate the performance of FPGA designs is the utilisation of the architectural features of modern FPGAs. To do this, no ”pushbutton” solutions exists. The way to do this is to process one...

UN-Habitat suggests that one in every three people in the world will live in “slums” within 30 years. This paper analyses innovations in shelter finance that may help to avoid this situation. The urban poor, both as individual households and in terms of their organized collective capacity, face two very serious constraints. The first is their income poverty and their limited ability to invest i...

In this paper we evaluate several methods of fitting data to conic sections. Conic fitting is a commonly required task in machine vision, but many algorithms perform badly on incomplete or noisy data. We evaluate several algorithms under various noise and degeneracy conditions, identify the key parameters which affect sensitivity, and present the results of comparative experiments which emphasi...

We present three recent analyses (Abstracts 169, 170 and 174) of the mass of the top quark (Mt) using top-antitop candidate events collected by the D0 experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron Collider: (i) a 3.6 events/fb sample of data in the lepton+jets channel analyzed to extract a precision value of Mt using the "Matrix-Element" (ME) method, wherein each event probability is calculated from the ...