The Input Output I O automaton model developed by Lynch and Tuttle models components in asynchronous concurrent systems as labeled transition systems IOA is a precise language for de scribing I O automata and for stating their properties A toolset is being developed for IOA to support distributed software design and implemen tation One of the tools consists of a user assisted code generator fro...

Low level diiculties in the development of distributed systems that are due to non-standard communication protocols and incompatible components or platforms have largely been solved through standardization and commoditization of protocols and platforms. Distributed systems are being designed at higher levels of sophistication these days, and having an expressive yet usable speciication language...

OBJECTIVE This study developed and assessed an instrument to identify older people at high risk of abuse based on Reis and Nahmiash's Indicators of Abuse (IOA) screen. METHOD A total of 108 people 65 and older, hospitalized in internal medicine departments at two major hospitals in Israel, were screened together with their principal caregivers. The interview was based on the expanded IOA (E-I...

We read the review by Petitpal et al on intra-osseous access (IOA) in adults with great interest [1]. The review was concise, and offers a comprehensive overview of IOA. However, we disagree with one key aspect. The authors state that: “Despite a lack of evidencebased medicine, administration of lidocaine ... has been proposed in conscious patients”. Two studies are cited to support that IOA is...

This report describes a new language for distributed programming, the IOA language, together with a high-level design and preliminary implementation for a suite of tools, the IOA toolset, to support the production of high-quality distributed software. The language and tools are based on the I/O automaton model, which has been used to describe and verify distributed algorithms. The toolset suppo...

PURPOSE Mechanisms that underlie the relaxant response to histamine were examined in dog external (a branch of external carotid artery) and internal (a branch of internal carotid artery) ophthalmic arteries (EOA and IOA). METHODS Changes in isometric tensions were recorded in helical strips of the arteries with and without the endothelium. RESULTS Histamine predominantly produced relaxation...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Endoscopic ultrasound with fine needle aspiration (EUS-FNA) has become the standard of care in the evaluation of solid pancreatic lesions. Limited data exist on interobserver agreement (IOA) among cytopathologists in assessing solid pancreatic EUS-FNA specimens. This study aimed to evaluate IOA among cytopathologists in assessing EUS-FNA cytology specimens of solid pancreati...

It is important to enable social service agency practitioners to identify cases in which seniors are abused by their caregivers. The Indicators of Abuse (IOA) screening measure provides an abuse screening tool, based on abuse indicators, for use by practitioners. The study (N = 341) supports the validity of the 29-item set of indicators of the IOA, which discriminates abuse cases (84.4% of the ...

AIM To develop methods of articular cartilage preparation for X-ray-electron probe microanalysis and to study its elements content in experimental osteoarthrosis. METHODS Twenty dogs aged 2-8 years were divided in research (aged 2 years, induction of osteoarthrosis - IOA) and intact group. Intact group included three subgroups (aged 2, 5 and 8 years). Samples of cartilage after araldite satur...

In order to solve the dynamic vehicle routing problem (DVRP) containing both dynamic network environment and real-time customer requests, an efficient intelligent optimized algorithm called IOA is proposed in this paper, which takes advantages of both global searching ability of evolutionary algorithms and local searching capability of ant colony algorithm. The proposed IOA incorporates ant col...