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source of protein, as well as fat, fiber, and other carbohydrates. As a result of the growing …

Donation after circulatory death (DCD) has become an accepted practice in many countries
and remains a focus of intense interest in the transplant community. The present study is …

… G is a ring consisting of n nodes, numbered 1 to n in the clockwise direction (see Figure 3.1).
We often count mod n, allowing 0 to be another name for process m, n + 1 another name for …

… Initially Dead Processes In this section, we exhibit a protocol that solves the consensus
problem for N processes as long as a majority of the processes are nonfaulty and no process …

… Given that PODC has always been sited in North America, the possibility of holding the
conference elsewhere will be discussed at the Business Meeting of PODC 2002. …

… For fail-stop or omission faults we show that t-resilient consensus is possible iff N 2 2t + 1.
For Byzantine faults with authentication, we show that t-resilient consensus is possible iff N 2 3t …

… was set at low, the activation force (ie, force threshold required for movement of the
dynamometer arm) was set at 50 N, and the minimum force for lever arm movement was set at 20 N. …

… We assume a ring of n processors, each starting with a unique identi er chosen from a
universal totally ordered identi er set I. Each processor can communicate with each of its …

We introduce the input-output automaton, a simple but powerful model of computation in
asynchronous distributed networks. With this model we are able to construct modular, …