Principlism aims to provide a framework to help those working in medicine both to identify moral problems and to make decisions about what to do. For it to meet this aim, the principles included within it must express values that all morally serious people share (or ought to share), and there must be no other values that all morally serious people share (or ought to share). This paper challenge...

Road anger constitutes one of the determinant factors related to safety outcomes (e.g., accidents, near misses). Although cyclists are considered vulnerable road users due to their relatively high rate of fatalities in traffic, previous research has solely focused on car drivers, and no study has yet investigated the effect of anger on cyclists' safety outcomes. The present research aims to inv...

Abstract This study analyzes the memory hierarchy performance of three SPEC benchmarks and two TPC benchmarks. It nds large di erences between the benchmarks in instruction cache miss rates and smaller di erences in data cache miss rates. It then breaks all of the miss rates down in their components: context switch misses, user misses, supervisor misses, and collision misses. It demonstrates th...

Multi-core processors offer large performance potential for parallel applications, but writing these applications is notoriously difficult. Tuning a parallel application to achieve scalability, referred to as performance debugging, is often more challenging for programmers than conventional debugging for correctness. Parallel programs have several performance related issues that are not seen in...

In safety-critical applications, the use of advanced real-time scheduling techniques is significantly limited by the difficulty of finding tight estimations of worst-case execution parameters. This problem is further complicated by the use of cache memories, which reduce the predictability of the executing threads due to cache misses. In this paper, we analyze the effects of preemptions on wors...

Research on gambling near-misses has shown that objectively equivalent outcomes can yield divergent emotional and motivational responses. The subjective processing of gambling outcomes is affected substantially by close but non-obtained outcomes (i.e. counterfactuals). In the current paper, we investigate how different types of near-misses influence self-perceived luck and subsequent betting be...

This paper aims to design a new model of the third-stage carrier assembly used in planetary gearbox as single part component with improved strength and fatigue life properties lower production costs. First, mounting is subjected static, fatigue, modal analysis, based on obtained results, operating conditions that ensure its trouble-free operation are proposed. In next step, designs piece propos...