Post-conflict peacebuilding: strategies and lessons from Bosnia and Herzegovina, El Salvador and Sierra Leone

Includes bibliography

Post-conflict peace-building: a challenge for the United Nations

Includes bibliography

Transaction scheduling using dynamic conflict avoidance

Software transaction memory (STM) systems have been used as an approach to improve performance, by allowing the concurrent execution of atomic blocks. However, under high-contention workloads, STM-based systems can considerably degrade performance, as transaction conflict rate increases. Contention management policies have been used as a way to select which transaction to abort when a conflict occurs. In general, contention managers are not capable of avoiding conflicts, as they can only select which transaction to abort and the moment it should restart. Since contention managers act only after a conflict is detected, it becomes harder to effectively increase transaction throughput. More proactive approaches have emerged, aiming at predicting when a transaction is likely to abort, postponing its execution. Nevertheless, most of the proposed proactive techniques are limited, as they do not replace the doomed transaction by another or, when they do, they rely on the operating system for that, having little or no control on which transaction to run. This article proposes LUTS, a lightweight user-level transaction scheduler. Unlike other techniques, LUTS provides the means for selecting another transaction to run in parallel, thus improving system throughput. We discuss LUTS design and propose a dynamic conflict-avoidance heuristic built around its scheduling capabilities. Experimental results, conducted with the STAMP and STMBench7 benchmark suites, running on TinySTM and SwissTM, show how our conflict-avoidance heuristic can effectively improve STM performance on high contention applications. © 2012 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.

Ten theses concerning social conflict in Latin America

Includes bibliography

The health insurance market: lessons on the conflict between equivalence and solidarity

Includes bibliography

Commercial bank finance from the North and the economic development of the South: congruence and conflict

Includes bibliography

Political instability, institutional quality and social conflict in the Andes

Includes bibliography

The economy, conflict and governance in Colombia

Includes bibliography

Desencontro e experiência urbana em contos de Caio Fernando Abreu

Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)

Manifestações do herói trágico em O tempo e o vento

Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq)

Mito, lenda e história em Matrinchã do Teles Pires: a construção do terreno ficcional

Pós-graduação em Letras - IBILCE

"Indigitado estrupício": arqueologia e significados acerca do muro do Forte do Presépio (Belém-Pará)

Entre os anos de 1999 e 2002, o Forte do Presépio em Belém (PA), foi alvo de pesquisas multidisciplinares voltadas ao seu restauro e adequação com vias à sua musealização na conjuntura do Projeto Feliz Lusitânia. Uma das ciências que se dedicou a essa investigação foi a arqueologia, tendo tido uma atuação significativa na condução desse projeto. Durante esse processo, uma questão tomou dimensões exteriores à pesquisa arqueológica: a derrubada de um muro que se afigurava entre a rua e a fortificação. Neste contexto, o muro foi considerado uma "fantasmagoria" que impedia a antiga simbiose entre a fortaleza e a cidade. Contudo, a demolição da muralha foi uma decisão tomada à revelia da equipe de arqueologia, mas de acordo com os interesses estético-funcionais do plano museológico. Para justificar essa ação, uma série de atribuições de sentidos foi dada ao referido artefato ("indigitado estrupício”, “estrovenga", “aberração”). Isto posto, este trabalho pretende debater dois aspectos: (a) os significados dados ao muro, entendido como artefato capaz de suscitar ";;maneiras distintas de ver e agir no mundo"; e (b) o posicionamento efetivo da equipe de arqueologia diante da derrubada do muro.

Aesthetic rehabilitation of oligodontia in primary dentition with adhesive partial denture

The primary teeth are essential for bone development and establishment of the arches on occlusion. Thus, the congenitally absence of teeth may trigger a shift in the balance of the occlusion, promoting disharmony in the structures of the maxilla-mandibular system. However, some interventions are possible to be performed in these cases even in pediatric patients, to redirect growth, preventing growth deviations and reestablishing the aesthetic. The aim of this paper is to report the treatment of a 4-year-old child presenting congenitally absence of mandibular central and lateral incisors and maxilla lateral incisors, which consequently compromises aesthetics, occlusal function, and the development and the functional growth of the bones. The oral rehabilitation was performed with an adhesive partial denture, which was able to restore the aesthetic and the occlusal function, therefore being a viable alternative in the treatment of this patient of little age.

Aesthetic rehabilitation of a complicated crown-root fracture of the maxillary incisor: combination of orthodontic and implant treatment

The aim of this paper is to present a complex rehabilitation, of fractured tooth, with implants in anterior region considering the orthodontics extrusion to clinical success. At 7 years old, the patient fractured the maxillary left central incisor and the dentist did a crown with the fragment. Twenty years later, the patient was referred to a dental clinic for orthodontic treatment, with the chief complaint related to an accentuated deep bite, and a professional started an orthodontic treatment. After sixteen months of orthodontic treatment, tooth 21 fractured. The treatment plan included an orthodontic extrusion of tooth 21 and implant placement. This case has been followed up and the clinical and radiographic examinations show excellence esthetic results and satisfaction of patient. The forced extrusion can be a viable treatment option in the management of crown root fracture of an anterior tooth to gain bone in a vertical direction. This case emphasizes that to achieve the esthetic result a multidisciplinary approach is necessary.

Dynamic UCLA for single tilted implant in an aesthetic region

The aim of this paper was to present a rehabilitation of a patient with a dynamic universal castable long abutment (UCLA) for a single tilted implant in the anterior maxillary area. A 57-year-old male patient attended the dentistry college clinic complaining of a vertical fracture of a residual root of the dental element 22. The tooth extraction was indicated for the implant installation. Due to the socket buccal wall thickness, the implant was installed with an inclination to the palate. It was done in a two-stage surgical protocol, and an external hexagon implant (3.75×11.5mm) was placed. After a six-month healing period to correct the implant position, a dynamic UCLA was set in place, rectifying the implant emergence profile at 20°. The ceramic structure fitting was performed and, after the patient's consent, the prosthesis was finalized and installed. After a follow-up period of twenty months, no complications were observed. The installation of tilted implants with a dynamic UCLA may be a viable option, faster and less invasive than bone grafts.