Operating list composition and surgical performance

Measuring Operating Systems Performance

This instantly raises a question: what do we mean by performance? Most of us have an informal sense of what we mean. Perhaps we mean we don’t want to wait for our commands to complete. Perhaps we mean we want to run complex calculations on very large data sets fast enough for the results to be useful. Perhaps we mean we want to get the most possible work through a given piece of hardware that w...

Modeling and Performance Evaluation of List Structures

These thesis groups deal with the examination of Access Control Lists (ACLs) that are used in IP routers mainly for providing network admission control and maintaining a certain level of quality of service. The first thesis group presents a heuristic optimization of the rule entries of the ACLs according to the router traffic. I propose here an idea and a heuristic to solve an NP-hard problem, ...

List composition and the word-frequency effect for recognition memory.

The attention/likelihood theory (ALT; M. Glanzer & J. K. Adams, 1990) and the retrieving effectively from memory (REM) theory (R. M. Shiffrin & M. Steyvers, 1997) make different predictions concerning the effect of list composition on word recognition. The predictions were empirically tested for two-alternative forced-choice, yes-no, and ratings recognition tasks. In the current article, the au...

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Operating performance following dividend decreases and omissions*

Using quarterly data and benchmarks based on past performance-characteristics, I find little evidence that earnings change following 661 dividend decreases and 872 dividend omissions between 1980 and 1998. The exception is that earnings deteriorate during the quarter of dividend omissions, but they recover within a couple of quarters. My results further suggest that the lack of a more pronounce...