Human capital attainment among workers plays an important role in determining firm’s output and labor productivity, hence enhances firm’s competitiveness. More educated workers are believed to be more efficient and productive, reduce cost of production and raise the capability of firms to compete especially in the global market.. The intention of the Malaysian government to create the Bumiputer...

A probabilistic model to estimate the number of misses on a set associative cache with an LRU replacement algorithm is introduced. Such type of modeling has been done by our group in previous works for sparse matrices with an uniform distribution of the non zero elements. In this paper we present new results focusing in different types of distributions that usually appear in some well-known rea...

This paper presents the methodology and results of two ecological-based net ecosystem production (NEP) regression tree models capable of up scaling measurements made at various flux tower sites throughout the U.S. Great Plains. Separate grassland and cropland NEP regression tree models were trained using various remote sensing data and other biogeophysical data, along with 15 flux towers contri...

In this article we consider universal networks of evolutionary processors (NEP) having a small number of rules. We show that it is possible to construct a universal NEP with 5 rules when no input/output encoding is used, and a universal NEP with 4 rules in the case in which such an encoding is allowed. We also give a construction of a universal NEP with 7 rules that efficiently (in polynomial t...

The New Ecological Paradigm (NEP) Scale is a set of 15 likert questions and is intended to indicate whether an individual holds pro-environmental or weak-environmental beliefs. This paper provide an overview and comparison of three methodologies that may be applied to NEP survey data to identify environmental attitudinal groups: summated score, latent class analysis, and cluster analysis method...

The generalized Nash equilibrium problem (GNEP) is a generalization of the standard Nash equilibrium problem (NEP), in which each player’s strategy set may depend on the rival players’ strategies. The GNEP has recently drawn much attention because of its capability of modeling a number of interesting conflict situations in, for example, an electricity market and an international pollution contr...

TCP Vegas has been introduced in an attempt to improve the performance of TCP Reno and reduce the oscillation e ects. TCP Vegas is, however, criticized for penalizing the users using it in the presence of other users using TCP Reno. In this paper, we model the problem of congestion control as both a single shot game and a repeated game, using a game theoretic approach. We rst show that in the s...

We summarize the fabrication, flight qualification, and dark performance of bolometers completed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for the High Frequency Instrument (HFI) of the joint ESA/NASA Herschel/Planck mission to be launched in 2009. The HFI is a multicolor focal plane which consists of 52 bolometers operated at 100 mK. Each bolometer is mounted to a feedhorn-filter assembly which defines...

background : studies have shown that noise pollution has harmful effects on human health. the sound of traffic is the main source of noise pollution in cities. the purpose of this study was to determine noise pollution using a geographical information system (gis) in the main streets of kashan, iran. methods: in this study, 180 noise samples were collected from 20 regions of the main streets in...