A new approach to handling battle simulation lethality is presented. In this approach, a single vulnerability/lethality server provides standard distributed interactive simulation (DIS) damage states to entities fast enough for most real-time applications. Benefits include DIS simulations being freed from the burden of maintaining damage state tables and DIS exercises being easier to configure ...

In this paper, we dis uss the relationship between mediatorbased systems for servi e dis overy in multi-agent systems, and the te hnique of query routing used for resour e dis overy in distributed information systems. We then onstru t a model of the query routing task whi h we use to examine the omplexity and s alability hara teristi s of a number of ommonly en ountered ar hite tures for resour...

This paper reports on electronically-monitored improved use of the Mirt biomass stove in Ethiopia over a relatively long period three-and-a-half years, using data collected at five points time. The results show that 62 percent households surveyed still retained their stoves after more than three which is low level abandonment, as lifetime approximately years. Dis-adoption not correlated with an...

primary adrenal lymphoma is extremely rare. we report a case with primary bilateral adrenal lym-phoma in a young male patient. he presented with abdominal pain and weight loss. pathologic study revealed malignant lymphoma, diffuse large cell type (t- cell origin). patient recieved combination chemotherapy and radiation therapy but 22 months after diagnosis died because of progression of dis ease

The Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) protocol has long been used in military simulations, but no widespread open source C++ implementation has been made available to date. We have written an open source implementation in C++ and Java that we believe will result in a less duplicated effort in creating DIS simulations and that can serve as a platform for investigating modifications and ex...

Computationally hard instances of combinatorial problems arise at a certain critical ratio of constraints to variables. At the critical ratio, problem distributions undergo dramatic changes. I will discuss how an analogous phenomenon occurs in phase transitions studied in physics, and how experiments with critically constrained problems have led to surprising new insights into average-case comp...

INTRODUCTION Daily interruption of sedation (DIS) and sedation algorithms (SAs) have been shown to decrease mechanical ventilation (MV) duration. We conducted a randomized study comparing these strategies. METHODS Mechanically ventilated adults 18 years old or older in the medical intensive care unit (ICU) were randomly assigned to DIS or SA. Exclusion criteria were severe neurocognitive dysf...

Nuclear acetyltransferases promote and deacetylases inhibit skeletal muscle-gene expression, suggesting the potential effectiveness of deacetylase inhibitors (DIs) in modulating skeletal myogenesis. Surprisingly, previous studies have indicated that DIs suppress myogenesis. The recent observations that histone deacetylases associate with the muscle-regulatory proteins MyoD and MEF2C only in und...

T. Stavreva LPSC, Université Joseph Fourier Grenoble 1, CNRS/IN2P3, INPG, Grenoble, F-38026, France E-mail: [email protected] The neutrino deep inelastic scattering (DIS) data is very interesting for global analyses of proton and nuclear parton distribution functions (PDFs) since they provide crucial information on the strange quark distribution in the proton and allow for a better flavor ...