Two trends call into question the current practice of fabricating microprocessors and DRAMs
as different chips on different fabrication lines. The gap between processor and DRAM …

Networks of workstations are poised to become the primary computing infrastructure for
science and engineering. NOWs may dramatically improve virtual memory and file system …

… van de Vijver, Jocelyne Jacquemier, Thomas J. Anderson, Peter P. Osin, Lesley McGuffog,
and Douglas F. Easton for the Breast Cancer Linkage Consortium … Johannsson OT, Idvall I …

Multithreaded programming is difficult and error prone. It is easy to make a mistake in
synchronization that produces a data race, yet it can be extremely hard to locate this mistake …

The Internet architecture has proven its worth by the vast array of applications it now supports
and the wide variety of network technologies over which it currently runs. Most current …

Reliability is a desirable feature for any computing system, and a necessary requirement for
some systems, as discussed in Chapter 1. Although operation without failure is the goal, it …

One way to provide fault isolation among cooperating software modules is to place each in
its own address space. However, for tightly-coupled modules, this solution incurs prohibitive …

Isotopes are atoms whose nuclei contain the same number of protons but a different number
of neutrons. There are about 300 stable (non-radioactive) isotopes in nature.(The number of …

Background Nanoliposomal irinotecan showed activity in a phase 2 study in patients with
metastatic pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma previously treated with gemcitabine-based …

Daily human energy requirements calculated from separate components of energy
expenditure are inaccurate and usually in poor agreement with measured energy intakes. …