Purpose To determine whether fluid resuscitation of acutely ill adults with 6 % hydroxyethyl
starch (6 % HES 130) with a molecular weight of 130 kD and a molar substitution ratio of …

In an on-demand video server environment, clients make requests for movies to a centralized
video server. Due to the stringent response time requirements, continuous delivery of a …

This document describes Web Services Agreement Specification (WS-Agreement), a Web
Services protocol for establishing agreement between two parties, such as between a service …

Permissionless blockchains allow the execution of arbitrary programs (called smart contracts),
enabling mutually untrusted entities to interact without relying on trusted third parties. …

This document describes the specification language for service level agreements for Web
Services, the Web Service Level Agreement (WSLA) language. WSLAs are agreements …

“Essentials of Social Research is a well-balanced and engaging treatment of the many facets
of doing research. Capturing a trend toward the use of multiple methods and perspectives, …

We investigated preferences for climate change mitigation policies and factors contributing
to higher levels of policy support. The sample was comprised of 316 Michigan and Virginia …

Background The Multicenter Automatic Defibrillator Implantation Trial with Cardiac
Resynchronization Therapy (MADIT-CRT) showed that early intervention with cardiac-…

In this paper, we develop approximate analytical models for predicting the buffer hit probability
under the Least Recently Used (LRU) and First In First Out (FIFO) buffer replacement …

In a video-on-demand environment, continuous delivery of video streams to the clients is
guaranteed by sufficient reserved network and server resources. This leads to a hard limit on …