The unique public health functions and services are reflected in the core programs and in the. public health strategies by which those core programs are implemented. The more generic. maintenance and support functions are considered to be aspects of system capacity.
Also found in: Dictionary. livelock. /li:v'lok/ When two or more processes continuously change their state in response to changes in the other process(es) without doing any useful work. This is similar to deadlock in that no progress is made but differs in that neither process is blocked or waiting for anything.
Deadlocks are sometimes called a deadly embrace. Deadlock is a condition that can occur on any system with multiple threads, not just on a relational database management system, and can occur for resources other than locks on database objects. For example, a thread in a multithreaded operating system might acquire one or more resources, such as blocks of memory.