This paper proposes a class of literacy measures that takes into account the externality generated by the presence of literates in the household. It is claimed that such externality is increasing in the number of literates in the household, has characteristics of rivalry in consumption, and therefore is a function of the distribution of literates and illiterates in the household. The measure is...

Within the research project KOLINE a cooperative system for urban road transport is developed. Its traffic related goals are to reduce travel time and fuel consumption as well as noise and pollutant emissions. The herein described evaluation shall determine whether, to which extent and how economically the KOLINE system is able to address these goals. Three differently comprehensive quantifying...

Residue Number System (RNS) are becoming popular for designing high performance DSP processors because of their ability to offer carry free arithmetic operation. The carry free operations lead to concurrent execution of arithmetic operations on the residues. However in RNS, moduli selection is one of the most important parameter that determines bit efficiency, area, power consumption, speed etc...