ions that are designed in this way, using a private child package to declare package body data, are not only easier to test but are also more easily extended. Besides their usefulness as a replacement for test points, hierarchical library units can also improve the testability of a system in other ways. In particular, there are many operations which are specific to testing that would benefit fr...

This paper describes proposed extensions to the Ada95 programming language to provide support for persistent programming. The extensions support transparent migration of data between a program's address space and a persistent store in a way that preserves both type safety and encapsulation of ADT's.

A truly international gathering EuroTEX conferences are quite different from the TEX Users Group conferences, in that many more participants from Russia and Central Europe participate, and this year was no exception. In all 103 TEX users from 18 different countries (4 from Belgium, 1 from Canada, 7 from the Czech Republic, 2 from France, 17 from Germany, 1 from Hungary, 2 from Lithuania, 18 fro...

In a recent project the Ada language turned out to be not as flexible as we expected it to be. This forced us to model our application in a way that was less elegant, less maintainable and less efficient. In this paper we propose to add a language construct to the language that would enable us to do what we were missing. The extension is based on finite unions with dispatching and can quite eas...

Highlights of Quark Matter 95 are discussed. 1. The View from Mount RHIC This year marked a major milestone in the field of high energy nuclear collisions. Lead beams were successfully accelerated to 160 AGeV at the CERN/SPS and the first data Rapidity y or η Au+Au from AGS to RHIC HIJING1.3

The present study was conducted to evaluate the role of iron deficiency as a risk factor for simple febrile seizures in children aged 6 months to 5 years. This is a prospective cohort study recruiting 108 cases with simple febrile seizures and 100 controls with febrile illness without any seizures. All patients were assessed for iron deficiency anaemia by measuring haemoglobin level, serum ferr...

We discuss the production of hadrons in polarized lepton nucleon interactions and in the current jet fragmentation region; using the QCD hard scattering formalism we compute the helicity density matrix of the hadron and show how its elements, when measurable, can give information on the spin structure of the nucleon and the spin dependence of the quark fragmentation process. The cases of ρ vect...