Ahead Of Time Research Articles

Sympathy for Russia as a Way to Get Ahead of Time

Sympathy for Russia as a Way to Get Ahead of Time

Little Time, and: The Song in My Eye

Little Time, and: The Song in My Eye Alina Stefanescu (bio) Little Time We must go for a walkin the freshly-washedworld, he says. We must venture intothe thicket with cactiin our open corneas. There is so much to see,little time. Little time, trickling from an eave.Little time, dropping from leaves,falling, collecting, becomingserious puddles forpaper boats to cross. We must build a paper-boatin the freshly-puddledworld, he says. We must write our secretnames on the hull. Little boat, braving the wavescapes.Little time, before water softens paper. Was it earlier, a newsman reporteda young mother's body washedto shore during the storms. I imagined her shoes,little boats. [End Page 23] The newsman spoke to us.He said: And now, way aheadof time, she was gone. [End Page 24] The Song in My Eye after Ilya Kaminsky A girl cannot live without her shadow. I learn this in Romania from a peasantwho refused to walk past a new housebeing constructed, or declined to standclose enough to the house for the sunto throw his silhouette upon it. This is how shadows get stolen.They are built into something else I am so afraid of losing,being lost. There is a vampire in my left eye,the one that is lighter,hazel with yellow crumbs. The sun conspires against me.I tell my mom one eye is ruined,one eye is not real, one part is muttor half-mutant, one view is a liar. She bends, puts her knees on thecarpet to check, says it looks fine. Says the eye is entire andeverything is fine andthe word for this is lonely. My mom sings a song that uses herhands to show me: [End Page 25] this is the church and this is the steeple now open the door you'll find ourpeople [End Page 26] Alina Stefanescu Alina Stefanescu was born in Bucharest, Romania and currently lives in Birmingham, Alabama. Her most recent books include RIBALD (Bull City Press, Nov. 2020), and a poetry collection, DOR (forthcoming July 2021) which won the Wandering Aengus Book Award this year. www.alinastefanescuwriter.com Copyright © 2021 Pleiades and Pleiades Press

Getting Ahead of Time—Performing Temporal Boundaries to Coordinate Routines under Temporal Uncertainty

In this ethnographic study of firefighters we explore how routines are coordinated under high levels of temporal uncertainty—when the timing of critical events cannot be known in advance and temporal misalignment creates substantial risks. Such conditions render time-consuming incremental and situated forms of temporal structuring—the focus of previous research on temporal coordination—unfeasible. Our findings show that firefighters focused their efforts on enacting temporal autonomy or, as they called it, “getting ahead of time.” They gained temporal autonomy—the capacity to temporally uncouple from the unfolding situation to preserve the ability to adapt to autonomously selected events—by relying on rhythms they developed during training in performing individual routines and by opening up to the evolving situation only when transitioning between routines. Our study contributes to literature on temporal structuring by introducing temporal autonomy as a novel strategy for dealing with temporal contingencies. We also contribute to research on routine dynamics by introducing the performance of temporal boundaries as a previously unrecognized form of coordination within and among routines. Finally, we contribute to process research a method that allows analyzing complex temporal patterns and thus provides a novel way of visualizing processes.

A Man Ahead of His Time: Bill Hannon and the Founding of DMI

“Nothing in my design education had prepared me for the thoroughly foreign culture I found myself in.” Bill HannonLong before “design” became a corporate buzzword, Bill Hannon’s early—and difficult—experiences as a design manager led him to create DMI.

Design and Implementation of an Escape Analysis in the Context of Safety-Critical Embedded Systems

The use of a managed, type-safe language such as Standard ML, Ada Ravenscar, or Java in hard real-time and embedded systems offers productivity, safety, and dependability benefits at a reasonable cost. Static software systems, that is systems in which all relevant resource entities such as threads and their priorities, for instance, and the entire source code are known ahead of time, are particularly interesting for the deployment in safety-critical embedded systems: Code verification is rather maintainable in contrast to dynamic systems. Additionally, static analyses can incorporate information from all software and system layers to assist compilers in emitting code that is well suited to an application on a particular hardware device. It was shown in the past that a program composed in type-safe Java in combination with a static system setup can be as efficient as one that is written in C [30], which is still the most widely used language in the embedded domain. Escape analysis (EA) is one of several static-analysis techniques. It supports, for instance, runtime efficiency by enabling automated stack allocation of objects. In addition, Stilkerich et al. [27, 28] have argued that EA enables further applications in safety-critical embedded systems such as the computation of memory classes stated in the Real-Time Specification for Java (RTSJ) [6]. EA can be applied to any programming language but the quality of its results greatly benefits from the properties of a type-safe language. Notably, embedded multicore devices can positively be affected by the use of EA. Thus, we explore an ahead-of-time (AOT) escape analysis in the context of the KESO JVM featuring a Java AOT compiler targeting (deeply) embedded (hard) real-time systems.

Socio-Economic Management in Neplyuev’s Brotherhood: Education Ahead of Time

The article examines the foundations of educational innovations in the Krestovozdvszhensk Labor Brotherhood, which was founded by the famous philosopher, landowner and philanthropist N. N. Neplyuev in the 1880s, 30 km to North of Glukhov. It shows the socio-economic successes that the community could achieve in the production and social spheres. Educational innovations, due to which young brothers were brought up, are characterized: the need for constant practical application of innovative technologies and methods of work, reproduction of motives for self-learning and obtaining new knowledge, conditionality of constant decision-making, self-organization and self-government, etc. Methods of organization, social relations, approach to production activities along which the Brotherhood lived, days with the present. In particular, the focus of the Brotherhood's economy on the use of renewable resources and ensuring the sustainable state of adjacent ecosystems brings it closer to the goals and objectives of the Third Industrial Revolution, which is now taking place in the world. The priority of information production in the Brotherhood and its focus on the mechanization of labor processes make it clearer the logics of the modern Fourth Industrial Revolution clearer. And, finally, the invaluable achievement of the brothers is the priority they have achieved of a human personality development. This is what is now becoming essential in the light of the Fifth Industrial Revolution. It is especially noted that the Brotherhood, thanks to its educational system, managed to create a unique reproductive potential, which included: a system of necessary self-reproduction of human personalities; system of reproduction of the most effective use and reproduction of natural capital; system of reproduction of synergetic combination of human, natural and physical capitals.

Currency notes – Ahead of His Time: Mathematician and computer science pioneer Alan Turing will appear on UK currency

Currency notes – Ahead of His Time: Mathematician and computer science pioneer Alan Turing will appear on UK currency

The Philosopher Ahead of His Time. Ludwik Fleck and the Complexity of Science (Communication and Notes)

The Philosopher Ahead of His Time. Ludwik Fleck and the Complexity of Science (Communication and Notes)

Ahead of Time

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The Alphabet Bomber A Lone Wolf Terrorist Ahead of His Time, by Jeffrey D. Simon, PhD., Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, Imprint: Potomac Books, 2019.

The Alphabet Bomber A Lone Wolf Terrorist Ahead of His Time, by Jeffrey D. Simon, PhD., Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, Imprint: Potomac Books, 2019.

Professor Fernando Costa— A Man Ahead of His Time

AbstractThis article describes the milestones in the life Brazil’s greatest neurosurgeons, Professor Fernando Costa. Born and raised in the city of Pelotas, RS, Professor Fernando was an exemplary doctor. As former director and professor at the Catholic University of Pelotas, School of Medicine, his courage as well as his ethical attitude and transparency were the central traits of this masterful teacher. He will be eternally remembered as a great physician, teacher, father, husband, grandfather and friend.

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Abstract Looking back at his research on tachyons in the 1960s and 1970s, the physicist Gerald Feinberg recalled that he started thinking about particles that go faster than light after reading Jam...

Robert Tattersall, a Diabetes Physician Ahead of His Time.

The clinical and research landscape in the U.K. was dominated in the 1970s and 1980s by clinician scientists. Many worked as full-time employees of the National Health Service rather than universities. During a period when health services were under less pressure than today, they were able to find sufficient time to design clinical studies to answer important research questions that occurred to them while treating their patients. They also inspired a generation of junior colleagues to join their specialty and become clinical researchers themselves. In many ways it was a golden age for clinical diabetes research in Britain. Clinician scientists within the diabetes field who attained international stature include John Ward and Peter Watkins, who made major advances in diabetic neuropathy; Harry Keen, who pioneered the use of insulin pumps and introduced microalbuminuria as a sensitive test for diabetic nephropathy; and George Alberti (1), who demonstrated how low-dose insulin could be used as a practical and effective treatment for diabetic ketoacidosis. But one individual who epitomized the clinician researcher was Robert Tattersall. His contributions were many and varied and led to improved care worldwide, while the diabetes unit he developed in Nottingham came to be recognized as one of the best in the country. Robert was born in London in July 1943, the only child of Stanley Tattersall and Edith Booth, who were psychiatrists. He was brought up in the grounds of Bucks County Mental Hospital, where his father worked in a senior administrative position. He was educated at Charterhouse School (a private boarding school) and trained in medicine at the University of Cambridge and St Thomas’ Hospital, London. After qualification he undertook his first junior post at St Thomas’ before moving to Nottingham General Hospital, where he met his future wife, Bridget Jack, while they were both doctors in …

Ahead of time: Early sentence slow cortical modulations associated to semantic prediction

According to prediction-based accounts of language comprehension, incoming contextual information is constantly used to guide the pre-activation of the most probable continuations to the unfolding sentences. However, there is still scarce evidence of the build-up of these predictions during sentence comprehension. Using event-related brain potentials, we investigated sustained processes associated to semantic prediction during online sentence comprehension. To address this, participants read sentences with varying levels of contextual constraint one word at a time. A 1000 ms interval preceded the final word, which could be congruent or incongruent. A slow sustained negativity developed gradually over the course of sentences, showing differences across conditions, with increasingly larger amplitudes for high than low levels of constraint. The effect was maximal in the interval preceding the closing word. This interval elicited a left-dominant slow negative potential with a graded amplitude modulation to contextual constraint, replicating previous results in speech comprehension. We argue that these slow potentials index the engagement of cognitive operations associated to semantic prediction. In addition, we replicated the finding of an earlier onset of the N400 effect (incongruent minus congruent) for high relative to low contextual constraint, suggesting facilitated processing for contextually-supported and highly expected words. Altogether, these results are consistent with prediction-based models of language comprehension and they also strengthen the value of investigating slow components as potential indices of mechanisms linked to language prediction.

Duffy Daugherty: A Man Ahead of His Time by David Claerbaut

Duffy Daugherty: A Man Ahead of His Time by David Claerbaut

Perspectives of Nurses, Nurse Leaders, and Women Regarding Anticipatory Rounds in the Postpartum Period

ObjectiveTo obtain the perspectives of staff nurses, nurse leaders, and women with regard to the relevance and timing of nursing interactions during anticipatory rounds in the postpartum period. DesignA qualitative descriptive design using focus groups. SettingA hospital with 405 beds that serves a Midwestern U.S. community of approximately 256,000 people. ParticipantsA purposive sample of 12 staff nurses, 6 nurse leaders, and 15 women attended a total of 10 focus groups. MethodsWe conducted 10 semistructured focus groups: 6 with staff nurses, 1 with nurse leaders, and 3 with women. Each participant attended one focus group. Sessions were recorded and transcribed. Investigators independently coded transcripts and identified themes collectively. ResultsParticipants identified one overarching theme, Taking the Whole Picture Into Account, and five subthemes that were reflective of relevant nursing interactions: Help With Newborn Feeding, Managing Patient Comfort, Appreciating the Need for Safety, Being There, and Knowing Ahead of Time. Participants agreed that conducting rounds once every 2 to 3 hours was the most appropriate time frame. ConclusionParticipants identified important nursing interactions and their timing. Moreover, anticipatory rounding for women after birth includes more than completion of simple tasks or checklists. These findings indicate beginning evidence for what should occur during anticipatory rounds on the mother–baby unit. Timing of rounds can be flexible based on each woman’s unique needs, thus reinforcing patient-centered care. However, interactions and timing should take place only when the whole picture is taken into account.

From Enlightenment to the Anthropocene: Vico Behind or Ahead of His Time?

From Enlightenment to the Anthropocene: Vico Behind or Ahead of His Time?

Information Processing for Generating Recommendations Ahead of Time in an IoT-Based Environment

The evolution of Internet of Things (IoT) has significantly contributed to the development of the sensing enterprise concept and to the use of appropriate information systems for real-time processing of sensor data that are able to provide meaningful insights about potential problems in a proactive way. In the current article, the authors outline a conceptual architecture and describe the system design requirements for deciding and acting ahead of time with the aim to address the Decide and the Act phases of the “Detect-Predict-Decide-Act” proactive principle, which are still underexplored areas. The associated developed information system is capable of being integrated with systems addressing the Detect and the Predict phases in an Event Driven Architecture (EDA).

AOT vs. JIT: impact of profile data on code quality

Just-in-time (JIT) compilation during program execution and ahead-of-time (AOT) compilation during software installation are alternate techniques used by managed language virtual machines (VM) to generate optimized native code while simultaneously achieving binary code portability and high execution performance. Profile data collected by JIT compilers at run-time can enable profile-guided optimizations (PGO) to customize the generated native code to different program inputs. AOT compilation removes the speed and energy overhead of online profile collection and dynamic compilation, but may not be able to achieve the quality and performance of customized native code. The goal of this work is to investigate and quantify the implications of the AOT compilation model on the quality of the generated native code for current VMs. First, we quantify the quality of native code generated by the two compilation models for a state-of-the-art (HotSpot) Java VM. Second, we determine how the amount of profile data collected affects the quality of generated code. Third, we develop a mechanism to determine the accuracy or similarity for different profile data for a given program run, and investigate how the accuracy of profile data affects its ability to effectively guide PGOs. Finally, we categorize the profile data types in our VM and explore the contribution of each such category to performance.

Computational offloading mechanism for native and android runtime based mobile applications

Mobile cloud computing is a promising approach to augment the computational capabilities of mobile devices for emerging resource-hungry mobile applications. Android-based smartphones have opened real-world venues for mobile cloud applications mainly because of the open source nature of Android. Computational offloading mechanism enables the augmentation of smartphone capabilities. The problem is majority of existing computational offloading solutions for Android-based smartphones heavily depends on Dalvik VM (an application-level VM). Apart from being a discontinued product, Dalvik VM consumes extra time and energy because of the just-in-time (JIT) compilation of bytecode into machine instructions. With regard to this problem, Google has introduced Android Runtime (ART) featuring ahead-of-time (AHOT) compilation to native instructions in place of Dalvik VM. However, current state-of-the-art offloading solutions do not consider AHOT compilations to native binaries in the ART environment. To address the issue in offloading ART-based mobile applications, we propose a computational offloading framework. The proposed framework requires infrastructural support from cloud data centers to provide offloading as a service for heterogeneous mobile devices. Numerical results from proof-of-concept implementation revealed that the proposed framework improves the execution time of the experimental application by 76% and reduces its energy consumption by 70%.