J.R.R.Tolkien, inspector Morse og meg

Inspector Joins

The key idea behind Inspector Joins is that during the I/O partitioning phase of a hash-based join, we have the opportunity to look at the actual data itself and then use this knowledge in two ways: (1) to create specialized indexes, specific to the given query on the given data, for optimizing the CPU cache performance of the subsequent join phase of the algorithm, and (2) to decide which join...

Attorney - Photographer - Interpreter - Inspector

Under these major changes, two former classes of occupationally ĵ. deferred men, the 18-to-25-year olds, and the 25-to-30-year olds, have been lumped into a single Class. The requirement for deferment has been changed to "indispensable and irreplaceable to warsupporting activity" instead of the former "necessary' to and regularly engaged in." This means that Federal agen' «ies employing deferre...

Optimal Policy in OG Models

In the present paper general stationary overlapping generations economies with many commodities in every period and many different consumers in every generation are considered. A government maximizes a utilitarian social welfare function, which is the sum of weighted averages of utilities for generations, through fiscal policy, i.e., monetary transfers and taxes. Situations both with and withou...

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Placebo. Historie, biologi og effekt

Since 1950 or so, placebos and their effect have generated a considerable interest in certain medical communities, in particular among psychiatrists and the designers of clinical trials, yet the only significant external study of this phenomenon to appear has been Howard Brody's doctoral investigation, Placebos and the philosophy ofmedicine, published in 1980. In 1997, however, three book-lengt...