A process fails by omission if it “forgets” to send or receive messages. Considering omission failures is crucial for distributed systems, as such failures model both crash failures and incorrect behavior of process input/output buffers (such as buffer overflow). So, designing protocols that cope not only with crash failures but also with omission failures is a real challenge as soon as one is ...

In Special Relativity there are infinitely many equivalence classes of frames of reference. In each such class every two frames of reference move uniformly with respect to one another. It appears that the following questions have never been asked : In which of such equivalence classes of frames of reference is Special Relativity supposed to hold ? How can we identify such a class, and do so the...

Automatic detection of translation errors represents one of the more promising applications of NLP techniques to this domain. This paper concentrates on one class of error, the inadvertent omission. To a greater extent than ‘false friends’, terminological inconsistency, etc., the detection of omissions raises problems both theoretical and practical in nature. These problems are discussed, and a...

Many psychological learning theories have noted commonalities between aversive states produced by presentation of negative reinforcers, such as electric shock, and the omission of expected positive reinforcers, such as food. Here, three groups of rats received training with one auditory cue paired with shock and another with the omission of expected food, a shock-paired cue and a food-omission ...

This paper newly proposes a novel round-based synchronous system suffering crash and probabilistic omission failures. In this model, a novel class of adversaries, called p-probabilistic omission adversary (pPOA) is introduced. In addition to the ability of complete control of the crash-failure behavior, p-POA can select any subset of all transmitted messages as omission candidates. Then, each m...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to assess factors associated with patient frequency of intentionally skipping insulin injections. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Data were obtained through an Internet survey of 502 U.S. adults self-identified as taking insulin by injection to treat type 1 or type 2 diabetes. Multiple regression analysis assessed independent associations of various demogra...

TO THE EDITOR: We write you regarding an article named " Isolation and characterization of cholangiocyte primary cilia, " published by Huang et al. in September of 2006 (1). The Introduction of this article ends with the following sentences: " Despite these findings, our understanding of the functions of the primary cilium and its role in responding to environmental stimuli are still poorly und...

In this piece of industrial application, we focus on the identification of omission in statement pairs for an online news platform. We compare three annotation schemes, namely two crowdsourcing schemes and an expert annotation. The simplest of the two crowdsourcing approaches yields a better annotation quality than the more complex one. We use a dedicated classifier to assess whether the annota...

Optional word omission, such as that omission in complement and relative clauses, has been argued to be driven by production pressure (rather than by comprehension). One particularly strong production-driven hypothesis states that speakers insert words to buy time to alleviate production difficulties. I present evidence from the distribution of disfluencies in non-subjectextracted relative clau...