To automate network operations and deployment of compute services, intent-driven service management (IDSM) is essential. It enables users to express their requirements in a declarative manner as intents. fulfill the intents, closed control-loop carry out required configurations deployments without human intervention. Despite fact that intents are fulfilled automatically, conflicts may arise bet...

A slumber did my spirit seal, I had no human fears: She seemed a thing that could not feel The touch of earthly years. No motion has she now, force; neither hears nor sees; Rolled round in earth’s diurnal course, With rocks, and stones, trees!1 ‘A steal, /I fears.’ Given Wordsworth’s celebrated lyric is suspended its entirety above this essay, there decent chance you, reader, will have noticed ...

For decades, scholars across disciplines have examined the stark injustice of American carceralism. Among that body work are analyses various intent requirements embedded in constitutional doctrine governs state’s power to incarcerate. These include “deliberate indifference” standard Eighth Amendment, which regulates prison conditions, and “punitive intent” due process jurisprudence, scope conf...

BACKGROUND The health sector reform in Colombia, initiated by Law 100 (1993) that introduced a managed competition model, is generally presented as a successful experience of improving access to care through a health insurance regulated market. The study's objective is to improve our understanding of the factors influencing access to the continuum of care in the Colombian managed competition mo...

We propose a model that delivers endogenous variations in term spreads driven primarily by banks’ portfolio decision and their appetite to bear the risk of maturity transformation. We show that fluctuations of the future profitability of banks’ portfolios affect their ability to cover for any liquidity shortage and hence influence the premium they require to carry maturity risk. During a boom, ...