Criminological theorists and criminal justice policy makers place a great deal of importance on the idea of desistance. in general terms, criminal desistance refers to a cessation of offending activity among those who have offended in the past. Some significant challenges await those who would estimate the relative size of the desisting population or attempt to identify factors that predict mem...

Recently, push-based delivery has attracted considerable attention as a means of disseminating information to large client populations in both wired and wireless environments. In this paper, we address the problem of ensuring the consistency and currency of client's read-only transactions in the case of updates. Our approach is based on broadcasting invalidation reports and is scalable, i.e., i...

In mobile computing, it is desirable to allow read and write accesses to occur on replicated copies of the file at MH (mobile host) and MSS (mobile service station) to increase availability. However, the read-write conflicts among the copies of the database file are to be detected when MH gets connected to MSS. We present a timestamp based technique for the detection of read-write conflicts for...

This paper introduces the atomic Write and Read Next (WRNk) deterministic shared memory object, that for any k ≥ 3, is stronger than read-write registers, but is unable to implement 2-processor consensus. In particular, it refutes the conjecture claiming that every deterministic object of consensus number 1 is computationally equivalent to read-write registers.