Migration of Virtual Machine (VM) is a critical challenge in cloud computing. The process to move VMs or applications from one Physical Machine (PM) to another is known as VM migration. In VM migration several issues should be considered. One of the major issues in VM migration problem is selecting an appropriate PM as a destination for a migrating VM. To face this issue, several approaches are...

Nowadays, energy consumption management is a vital strategy for societies to optimize energy consumption. Considering the widespread functions of electrical energy in human lives,a high proportion of consumption management procedures deals with the management of electrical energy consumption. It is important to study the state of electrical energy and provide managerial and optimal management s...

University rankings generally present users with the problem of placing the results given for an institution in context. Only a comparison with the performance of all other institutions makes it possible to say exactly where an institution stands. In order to interpret the results of the SCImago Institutions Ranking (based on Scopus data) and the Leiden Ranking (based on Web of Science data), i...

We extend marginal excess burden (MEB) analysis in public finance literature to a dynamic general equilibrium model with incomplete markets and heterogeneous households. This extension allows us quantitatively assess efficiency ranking incidence of taxes. Our results indicate disparity welfare cost distributional consequence different forms taxation on capital, labor consumption. According our ...

The health status of people living in sub-Saharan Africa has dramatically declined declined during the 1990's. Infectious diseases, maternal mortality and ineffective use ofresources have been shown to negatively impact efforts to bolster economic development thereby reducing the resources available to improve health. This strategy briefing focuses on the most critical public health issues conf...

In large-scale disaster events, infrastructure owners are faced with many challenges in deciding the allocation ofresources for preparation and response actions. This decision process involves building situation awareness, evaluating course of action, and effecting response. This paper describes a modeling and simulation system called CIMS that presents a visual environment for assessing the ca...

BACKGROUND Digital interventions to reduce excessive alcohol consumption have the potential to have a broader reach and be more cost-effective than traditional brief interventions. However, there is not yet strong evidence for their ability to engage users or their effectiveness. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to identify the behavior change techniques (BCTs) and engagement strategies most worthy...

Background The World Health Organization has been pointing out that alcohol consumption is one of the serious public health problems at present, ranking third among leading health risk factors in the world. The consumption pattern of heavy and sporadic alcohol reaches 11.5% of alcohol consumers, accounting for serious health problems. In Brazil, the pattern of alcohol use has shown alarming rat...

AIMS Population surveys use a variety of methods to collect data on alcohol consumption. Comparability of results across methods is a prime consideration. Different methods have been demonstrated to be robust in terms of ranking individuals' alcohol use, while results have been mixed regarding comparability in terms of volume of consumption. In Australia, evidence-based guidelines have been dev...

The purpose of this article is to introduce a new scheme for robust multivariate ranking by making use of a not so familiar notion called monotonicity. Under this scheme, as in the case of classical outward ranking, we get an increasing sequence of regions diverging away from a central region (may be a single point) as nucleus. The nuclear region may be deened as the median region.