Best Selling Books by Arthur Adams

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This book gives an extensive account of 'the wonderful and mysterious forms of animal and vegetable life' encountered by Arthur Adams during the voyage of HMS Samarang in the years 1843 to 1846. Adams was the Assistant Surgeon on this expedition led by Captain Sir Edward Belcher which was charged with surveying Japan and South East Asia including, amongst others, the Islands of the Indian Archipelago and the China Seas. His beautifully descriptive personal observations combine with the formal identification of each species and sub-species to give a detailed vision of the natural history of the countries visited.

Renewable Resource Policy is a comprehensive volume covering the history, laws, and important national policies that affect renewable resource management. The author traces the history of renewable natural resource policy and management in the United States, describes the major federal agencies and their functions, and examines the evolution of the primary resource policy areas. The book provides valuable insight into the often neglected legal, administrative, and bureaucratic aspect of natural resource management. It is a definitive and essential source of information covering all facets of renewable resource policy that brings together a remarkable range of information in a coherent, integrated form.

In a distributed system where processes communicate directly, deadlock among a set P of processes occurs when all processes in P are idle waiting for messages from other processes in P in order to start execution, but there are no messages in transit between them. For a process which suspects that it may be deadlocked to determine whether it is indeed deadlocked, it is necessary for it to query other processes. Chandy, Misra, and Haas have proposed a distributed deadlock detection algorithm which uses fixed-length queries and replies. According to this algorithm, a process which suspects it may be deadlocked initiates a query computation by querying each process from which it is waiting to receive a message. If the initiator receives one reply for each query sent out, then the initiator is deadlocked. Otherwise, if the initiator has not received all replies within a timeout period T, it assumes that it is not deadlocked. We present five algorithms which use variable-length queries and replies to detect deadlock. Instead of using timeout to indicate an absence of deadlock, these algorithms use explicit messages called informs to convey the absence of deadlock to the query computation initiator. One algorithm detects a deadlock if it exists when the query computation is initiated. the other algorithms will detect deadlock as deadlock conditions develop. Proofs of correctness are provided, along with a simulation study which compares the performance of the new algorithms with that of the algorithms with that of the algorithm by Chandy, Misra, and Haas. (Author).

New Zealand author Arthur H. Adams' collection of poems inspired by the main streets and districts of London as they existed in the early 20th century. Reprinted from the original 1906 edition.