Coded computation techniques provide robustness against straggling workers in distributed computing. However, most of the existing schemes require exact provisioning straggling behavior and ignore computations carried out by workers. Moreover, these are typically designed to recover desired res...

A localized outbreak of cholera, especially when occurring outside 4 the endemic urea,'* as in the outbreak now reported,should afford more favorable opportunities for profitable enquiry than the ordinary epidemics occurring in the plains?in that the conditions presented are of a somewhat simpler character. And as the circumstances of this particular outbreak were rather rigorously enquired int...

AbstructThe technique for tagging isobars in a mixed beam by measuring energy loss by time-of-flight has been tested. With this method, isobar separation should improve by allowing more energy loss (thicker absorber), but only if one can control absorber homogeneity. Measurements of beam energy toss and energy spread obtained under such conditions were shown to be close to predicted values usin...