This editorial is being written in August 2020, as we prepare for the first issue of 2021 journal year. The past 6 months have been a time turmoil and uncertainty, especially food system...

We present the motivation, design, implementation, and performance evaluation of a UNIX kernel mechanism capable of establishing fast in-kernel data pathways between I/O objects. A new system call, splice() moves data asynchronously and without user-process intervention to and from I/O objects specified by file descriptors. Performance measurements indicate improved I/O throughput and increased...

results there was a significant difference in follow-up rates at the due date between the intervention group (50.7%, 34of 67 participants) and the control group (17.5%, 11 of 63 participants) (or = 4.871, 95% ci = 2.172 to 10.924, p < 0.0001). in the control group, the call interviews significantly increased the follow-up rate from 17.5% to 66.7 % (42 of 63 participants) (p < 0.0001), although ...