Early experience in laparoscopic colectomy for refractory colitis in children

This paper reports on initial experiences with an orthogonally persistent variant of the Java platform, called Persistent Java (PJava). We review and reflect on the design of PJava and discuss compatibility with Java. The features and limitations of an initial prototype are discussed

, thereby demonstrating a sophisticated non-blocking dynamic data structure that would be difficult to implement by other means. We also present the results of simple preliminary performance experiments that demonstrate that an "early release " feature of our STM is useful for reducing contention

The Testbed and Applications working group of the European Grid Forum (EGrid) is actively building and experimenting with a grid infrastructure connecting several research-based supercomputing sites located in Europe. This paper reports on our first feasibility study: running a self

It is argued that theoretical approaches to the nature of the influence of early experience on personality development have been vitiated by incorrect metaphysical assumptions, of a sort historically characteristic of immature sciences. In particular, mind and mental phenomena are construed

that communicate via trees defined in ASDL. As the first use of ASDL in a ‘real ’ compiler, this experience reveals much about the effort required to retrofit an existing compiler to use ASDL, the overheads involved, and the strengths and weaknesses of ASDL itself and, secondarily, of lcc. Copyright © 1999 John

Mediaspaces have been designed to facilitate informal communication and support group awareness while assuring privacy protection. However, low bandwidth communication is a source of undesirable discontinuities in such systems, resulting in a loss of peripheral awareness. In addition, privacy is often implemented as an accessibility matrix coupled to an all-or-nothing exposure of personal state. In this article, we describe CoMedi, a mediaspace prototype that addresses the problem of discontinuity and privacy in an original way: computer vision and speech recognition are used in conjunction to minimize visual discontinuities while supporting free movements in a room. Privacy is maintained by publication filters at the desired level of transparency. Keywords Computer mediated communication, mediaspace, privacy, group awareness, computer vision, face tracking, publication filter. This document is available in electronic form at the folowing addresses:

Many optimizations are easier or more effective for straight-line code (basic blocks). Straight-line code in Forth is limited mainly by calls and returns. Inlining eliminates calls and returns, which in turn makes the basic blocks longer, and increases the effectiveness of other optimizations. In this paper we present a first prototype implementation of ininlining for Gforth. 1

This paper reports on initial experiences with an orthogonally persistent variant of the Java platform, called Persistent Java (PJava). We review and reflect on the design of PJava and discuss compatibility with Java. The features and limitations of an initial prototype are discussed

This paper reports on initial experiences with an orthogonally persistent variant of the Java platform, called Persistent Java (PJava). We review and reflect on the design of PJava and discuss compatibility with Java. The features and limitations of an initial prototype are discussed