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The consumption of primary energy is often used to compare energy systems from a sustainability viewpoint at regional, national or even world level. For such comparisons to be “fair” and meaningful, this implies however to define primary energies in a cohe ...
Boiling water reactor (BWR) stability analysis is usually carried out using large system codes. However, because of the large computational efforts required, such codes cannot in practice be employed for the detailed investigation of the complete manifold ...
The mechanisms underlying two types of microtubule-dependent nuclear positioning are discussed. 'MTOC-dependent nuclear positioning' occurs when a nucleus is tightly associated with a microtubule organizing center (MTOC). 'Nuclear tracking along microtubul ...
In a transactional system, an {\em atomic commitment} protocol ensures that for any transaction, all {\em Data Manager} processes agree on the same outcome {\em (commit} or {\em abort)}. A {\em non-blocking atomic commitment} protocol enables an outcome to ...
The long-chain acyl-coenzyme A synthetase (ACS) gene gives rise to three transcripts containing different first exons preceded by specific regulatory regions A, B, and C. Exon-specific oligonucleotide hybridization indicated that only A-ACS mRNA is express ...
Neural stem cells (NSCs), when stimulated with epidermal growth factor (EGF) or fibroblast growth factor-2 (FGF-2), have the capacity to renew, expand, and produce precursors for neurons, astrocytes, and oligodendrocytes. We postulated that the early appea ...
Treatment with glucocorticoids increases the concentration of plasma high-density lipoprotein (HDL), which is inversely correlated to the development of atherosclerosis. Previously, we demonstrated that repeated administration of glucocorticoids increases ...
This paper describes a modular approach for the construction of fault-tolerant agreement protocols. The approach is based on a generic consensus service. Fault-tolerant agreement protocols are built using a client-server interaction, where the clients are ...
This paper presents the abstraction of lazy consensus and argues for its use as an effective component for building distributed agreement protocols in practical asynchronous systems where processes and links can crash and recover. Lazy consensus looks like ...
This paper discusses the relationship between the {\em Non-\Blocking Atomic Commitment problem (NB-AC)} and the Consensus problem in asynchronous systems with {\em unreliable} failure detectors. We first confirm that NB-AC is harder than Consensus. In con ...
