Studies of sick pay and absenteeism have traditionally treated absence as a worker-related phenomenon. There are good reasons to suppose, though, that firms’ incentives to control absenteeism are not uniform. This paper presents what we believe to be the first evidence for relationships between the nature of a firm’s production method ) and its personnel policies, particularly as they are direc...

The Java Bytecode language lacks expressiveness for traditional compiler optimizations, making this portable, secure software distribution format ineecient as a program representation for high performance. This inee-ciency results from the underlying stack model, as well as the fact that many bytecode operations intrinsically include sub-operations (e.g., iaload includes the address computation...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore if six sigma and lean are new methods, or if they are repackaged versions of previously popular methods – total quality management (TQM) and just-in-time (JIT). Design/methodology/approach – The study is based on a critical comparison of lean with JIT and six sigma with TQM, a study of the measure of the publication frequency – the number of aca...

Abstract Cargo conveyance onboard dry bulk carriers is contemporarily often affiliated to preoperational waiting times, which may affect the income situation of stakeholders and sustainability sector. Therefore, repetitively occurring problems, potentially paired with port congestion phenomena, indicating that just in time (JIT) arrival potential for a distinct or combination reasons has not be...

Concept maps have been extensively used in education, especially in science teaching. There is strong evidence that their use is associated with increased knowledge transfer and retention across several instructional conditions, settings and methodological features. However, constructing a concept map is complex and difficult for students, especially newbies. Consequently, there is a necessity ...

High performance on Java applications running on server and desktop machines requires fast execution of Java bytecodes. Such performance can be achieved by Just-In-Time (JIT) compilers, which translate the stack-based bytecodes into register-based machine code on demand. But one crucial problem in Java JIT compilation is the compilation time, which increases the total execution time of an appli...

A distributed JVM on a cluster can provide a highperformance platform for running multi-threaded Java applications transparently. Efficient scheduling of Java threads among cluster nodes in a distributed JVM is desired for maintaining a balanced system workload so that the application can achieve maximum speedup. We present a transparent thread migration system that is able to support high-perf...

Adaptive Just-in-Time (JiT) compilers employ a wide range of techniques to concentrate compilation efforts in the most promising spots of the application. The goal is to balance tight compilation budgets with appropriate level of code quality. Such techniques include profiling to identify hot spots in the application, using multiple compilation strategies, and performing aggressive optimization...