Adolescence may be defined as the period of life 'rom the end of childhood, and indicated physically by the bodily changes associated with puberty, continuing until full physical development is achieved, and adult status in society is recognised. Unfortunately there is incomplete agreement as to the time-period involved. Some authors (Sandstrom) consider the years from 12-16, the age 10-12 bein...

We argue in favor of the presumed c o m m i t protocol by proposing two new presumed commit variants that sign$cantly reduce the cost of logging activities associated with the original presumed commit protocol. Furthermore, for read-only transactions, we apply our unsolicited updatevote optim’zationand show that the cost associated with this type of transactions is the same in both presumed com...

Introduction. Since the time of Riemann, there has been a close interplay between the study of the geometry of complex algebraic curves (or, equivalently, compact Riemann surfaces) and the topology of 2-manifolds. These connections arise from the uniformization theorem, which asserts that every simply connected Riemann surface is conformally equivalent to either the Riemann sphere, the plane, o...

Dynamic replication can be used to reduce bandwidth consumption and access latency in high performance “data grids” where users require remote access to large files. Different replication strategies can be defined depending on when, where, and how replicas are created and destroyed. We describe a simulation framework that we have developed to enable comparative studies of alternative dynamic re...

Software measures are of paramount importance to evaluate both processes and products. However, collecting such data requires a large effort and this activity produces benefits only in the long term. For these reasons, companies have to use automated tools able to collect data without affecting both the productivity and the process. This approach is useful to reduce the effort related to the me...

In classical computation, a “write-only memory” (WOM) is little more than an oxymoron, and the addition of a WOM to a (deterministic or probabilistic) classical computer brings no advantage. We demonstrate a setup where a quantum computer using a WOM can solve problems that neither a classical computer with a WOM nor a quantum computer without a WOM can solve, when all other resource bounds are...

G o o d l o o k i n g . 5 4 y e a r Old William Francis McDon­ ough wears horn-rimmed spec­ tacles, lias steel-gray eyes, talks In a soft, modest way, and is Unmarried. In his day Bill McDonough ^35 been a farmer’s son, soltlier, Merit Man and top execu­ tive of a big-time employees' Sroup. He likes to walk, play golf, and bowl. He once bowled 300, which is as thrilling as ̂ l^ole-in-one is to a...