The early 1990s have been a time of fiscal stress for local governments in the United States with school districts particularly hard hit. This article presents the results of a detailed study of potential cost savings from consolidation of New York school districts. It extends past research on consolidation by developing a theoretical framework which distinguishes several dimensions of economie...

In memory consolidation, declarative memories which initially require the hippocampus for their recall, ultimately become independent of it. Consolidation has been the focus of numerous experimental and qualitative modeling studies, but only little quantitative exploration. We present a consolidation model in which hierarchical connections in the cortex, that initially instantiate purely semant...

I. G. Doran and J. D. McKinley, Queen’s University Belfast The paper proposes the use of an approximation, suggested by Hansen, to the exact analytical solution of the Terzaghi consolidation equation, as the basis for the determination of the coefficient of consolidation from the results of a consolidation test using a least squares error adjustment procedure. This is an area of considerable pr...

Server consolidation of virtual machines is very much essential in a cloud environment for energy conservation and cost cutting . Consolidation can be achieved through live migration of virtual machines. We propose a modified bin packing algorithm for Server Consolidation that avoids unnecessary migrations and minimizes the instantiation of new physical servers. We implement ideas from the Firs...

Consolidation and integration have been subjects of interest in recent Chi Solutions, Inc. (Chi) webinars and research projects, as well as ongoing topics of discussion at national industry meetings and seminars. While some use the terms “consolidation” and “integration” interchangeably, they do have different meanings and strategies. Consolidation is about bringing as much testing as possible ...

system at an increasing rate. Merging companies often tout benefits including cost savings and increased care coordination, but serious concerns about market power also need to be raised. It is critically important to scrutinize future mergers because of their impact on an already excessively concentrated healthcare marketplace. This research brief looks at the types of consolidation, the facto...

Experiments were conducted to study the effect of process parameters on the formation of nanostructured silicon carbide films by hypersonic plasma particle deposition (HPPD). In HPPD, vapor phase precursors are injected into a thermal plasma generated by a DC arc torch. The plasma is then quenched by supersonic expansion in a ceramic lined nozzle, resulting in the nucleation and growth of ultra...

The structural and magnetic properties of the melt-spun Pr2Fe14B/a-Fe nanocomposite powders consolidated via shock-wave compression and subjected to postshock thermal treatment were investigated. Shock compression results in grain refinement, which leads to a reduction of an effective anisotropy and therefore an increase in the ferromagnetic exchange length, resulting in an enhanced exchange co...

Generation and dissipation of temperature-induced pore water pressure can alter the mechanical behavior characteristics soil media. Experimental observations indicate that heating/cooling cycles fabric which may result in irrecoverable deformations. Previous studies suggest contribution thermo-osmotic (non-Darcian) flow clays have a significant role thermal pressurization diffusion. Hence, this...

Between-sessions gains in the texture discrimination task have been attributed to memory consolidation. A strong dependence of consolidation on sleep was suggested though not always supported by experimental results. Here we suggest that the interaction between consolidation and sleep depends on the adaptation level obtained during the training session. We find that both discrimination threshol...