When the cluster in the state of Locking receives this message, its lock level will decrease by 1 as well as receiving a UPDATE message.
A cluster that not being in the state of Merging or Waiting will raise its locking level by 1 while receiving one LOCK, and go into the state of Locking while the locking level is high than 0. It carries information of an initiative cluster that has already been merged with another one.
When a cluster in the state of Locking receives a UPDATE message, its locking level will decrease by 1, and it will transfer into Decision state if the lock level is 0. Its content is the information of a passive cluster that has been merged by another.
The conceptual foundation of the motivational method presented here is the notion of "decentering". Swiss child psychologist Jean Piaget coined the term to describe the phenomenon of infants moving beyond a state of locked-in, self-centered perception.
When organizations eventually reproduce one prevailing strategic pattern, they have entered a state of lock-in, a situation in which they have only a limited corridor of options available (Sydow et al. 2009; Vergne and Durand 2010).
One source says that Google's co-founder has moved the project to an area of the Googleplex called "Building 2000" (which is also home to a new Google campus store and a slide!) and that the area is now in a state of lock down as they prepare the project.
We argue that a traditional lock service design that enforces strict mutual exclusion and a globally-consistent view of locking state is neither sufficient nor strictly necessary for ensuring application-level correctness in the presence of asynchrony and failures.
California, for its part, is negotiating with generating companies to sign multi-year contracts that would stabilize prices, an approach that seems absolutely necessary but holds the danger of locking the state into prices that could look way too high when additional generating capacity comes online in future years.
After experiencing real, if painstaking, contact with the world around him, the cataracts had banished him again to the state of being locked in.
"Saying, 'We are going to use the power of the federal state to lock up as many young men as we can for as long as we can if they are found with a gun,' would not go over well at all," Kennedy predicted.
The ad, accusing no one by name, said that "Southern violators" had arrested Dr. King seven times and had persecuted black students who sang OMy Country, 'Tis of TheeO on the steps of the State Capitol, locking them out of their dining hall "in an attempt to starve them into submission".
