1: Professional Development for Geographically Dispersed Faculty

Component-Based Development in Geographically Dispersed Teams

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Sprinkler - Reliable Broadcast for Geographically Dispersed Datacenters

This paper describes and evaluates Sprinkler, a reliable highthroughput broadcast facility for geographically dispersed datacenters. For scaling cloud services, datacenters use caching throughout their infrastructure. Sprinkler can be used to broadcast update events that invalidate cache entries. The number of recipients can scale to many thousands in such scenarios. The Sprinkler infrastructur...

Stress: Professional Development Needs of Extension Faculty

This study was designed to identify workplace and individual factors that cause stress in the lives of Extension professionals and to determine baseline needs assessment data for professional development in the area of balancing work and family. A census-survey questionnaire (74% response rate) was utilized to explore balancing work and personal life issues among the population of University of...

Statistical Consulting in a Geographically Dispersed Organization

Geographically-Colocated Subgroups in Globally Dispersed Teams:

Members of dispersed work teams may be located geographically in a variety of configurations. In fully-dispersed teams, each member resides in a unique location, whereas partially-dispersed teams are composed of some colocated and some distant members. Configurations in which team members are divided into geographically-distinct subgroups may create faultline dynamics, characterized by disrupti...