Piggyback basins on the margins of growing orogens commonly serve as sensitive recorders of the onset of thrust deformation and changes in source areas. The Bieertuokuoyi piggyback basin, located in the hanging wall of the Pamir Frontal Thrust, provides an unambiguous record of the outward growth of the northeast Pamir margin in northwest China from the Miocene through the Quaternary. To recons...

The rapid growth of the World Wide Web has caused serious performance degradation on the Internet. This paper ooers an end-to-end framework by collectively examining the Web components { clients, proxies, servers, and the network. Our goal is to reduce user-perceived latency and the number of TCP connections, improve cache coherency and cache replacement, and enable prefetching of resources tha...

Vector clocks are the appropriate mechanism to track causality among the events produced by a distributed computation. Traditional implementations of vector clocks require application messages to piggyback a vector of n integers (where n is the number of processes). This paper considers the tracking of the causality relation on a subset of events (namely, the events that are defined as “relevan...

PURPOSE To explore non-cancerous factors that may be related with medium-term survival (24 months) after liver transplantation (LT) in this data from northeast Brazil. METHODS A cross-sectional study was carried out in patients who underwent deceased-donor orthotopic LT because hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) at the University of Pernambuco, Brazil. Non-cancerous factors (i.e.: donor-, recepto...