Global Garbage Detection (GGD) in object-oriented distributed systems requires that each application process maintains some information in support of GGD. Maintaining this information is known as log-keeping. In this paper we describe a low-overhead, log-keeping mechanism which proceeds lazily and avoids race conditions while nevertheless maintaining enough information for comprehensive GGD to ...

OBJECTIVE This paper aimed to analyze self-evaluations in terms of quality of life (QoL), physical health (PH) and mental health (MH) of ex-medical students from a Brazilian public university, correlating these outcomes with demographic data and several professional aspects. METHODS a cross-sectional study with a target population of all students graduated from the Botucatu School of Medicine...

Texts containing personal health information reveal enough data for a third party to be able to identify an individual and his health condition. Detection of personal health information in electronic health records is an essential part of record deidentification. Performance evaluation in use today focuses on method’s ability to identify whether a word reveals personal health information or not...

one of the distinguishing features of implementation research is the importance given to involve implementers in all aspects of research, and as users of research. we report on a recent implementation research effort in india, in which researchers worked together with program implementers from one of the longest serving government funded insurance schemes in india, the rajiv aarogyasri scheme (...

results predictable increase of alcohol consumption after the anti-alcohol campaign facilitated the economical reforms of the early 1990s: workers and some intelligentsia did not oppose privatizations of state-owned enterprises partly due to their drunkenness, involvement in workplace theft and use of equipment for profit, which was often tolerated by the management at that and earlier time. co...