We study the decisions of state-chartered banks to join Fed in its first decade. Ours is combine state regulatory environment characteristics and individual bank explain membership choice. Regulatory environments that reduced benefit discount window access or increased cost joining led fewer joining. Individual affected magnitude benefits from accessing (either passing on liquidity risk reducti...

Continuous queries over data streams have gained popularity as the breadth of possible applications, ranging from network monitoring to online pattern discovery, have increased. Joining of streams is a fundamental issue that must be resolved to enable complex queries over multiple streams. However, as streams can represent potentially infinite data, it is infeasible to have full join evaluation...

The physical implementation of most relational databases follows their logical description, where each relation is stored in its own file or collection of files on disk. Such an implementation is good for queries that filter or aggregate large portions of a single table, and provides reasonable performance for queries that join many records from one table to another. It is much less ideal, howe...