The variation of the peak intensity of energetic ions accelerated at CIR related shocks in the interplanetary medium as observed by instruments on board of ULYSSES during its pass towards the south polar region and from the north polar region back to its aphelium is discussed. From ULYSSES measurements alone it cannot be decided whether the observed variation is a function of latitude or of rad...

In multilevel secure database systems, higher level transactions are either delayed or aborted when they read lower level data, due to lock connicts with updating lower level transactions. Multiversion data has been suggested in the literature as a way to prevent lower reading transaction from getting delayed or aborted. In these multiversion protocols transactions that read lower level data ar...

A recent International Journal of Health Policy and Management (IJHPM) article by Fadi El-Jardali and colleagues makes an important contribution to the literature on health system strengthening by reporting on a survey of healthcare stakeholders in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) about Systems Thinking (ST). The study’s main contributions are its confirmation that healthcare stakeholde...

1 Centre for Immune Regulation (CIR) and Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo, N-0316 Oslo, Norway. 2 CIR and Department of Immunology, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet and University of Oslo, Norway, PO Box 4950, N-0424 Oslo, Norway. 3 Department for Microbiology, Oslo University Hospital Rikshospitalet and University of Oslo, PO Box 4950, Nydalen, N-0424 Oslo, Norway. 4 Depart...

a. Since World War II, the Soviet Union has represented the principal threat to the national security interests of the US. During this period, the military capability of the Soviet Armed Forces grew enormously. Starting in the later years of the 1980's, the international security environment has undergone rapid, fundamental, and revolutionary changes. The Soviet Union has disintegrated with the...

In this paper, we explain social information retrieval (SIR) and collaborative information retrieval (CIR). We see SIR as a way of knowing who to collaborate with in resolving an information problem while CIR entails the process of mutual understanding and solving of an information problem among collaborators. We are interested in the transition from SIR to CIR hence we developed a communicatio...