abstract level of groundwater is decreased which is mainly because, withdrawal of groundwater is increased, because of lack of right management. economics of rural based farming and farming is dependent of water so decreasing of groundwater effects social welfare. in this study decrease of welfare measure by reason of reduction of groundwater level considered. this study investigated the impact...

1 Richard L. Upchurch, CIS Department, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, N. Dartmouth, MA 02747, [email protected] 2 Ann E. Kelley Sobel, Computer Science and Systems Analysis Department, Miami University, Oxford, OH 45056, [email protected] Abstract—Evolving accreditation standards require that software engineering programs, and perhaps even individual courses, demonstrate that studen...

Power consumption and cooling costs of hosted storage services and shared storage infrastructure in data centers account for a growing percentage of the total cost of ownership. The bursty nature of storage workloads requires significant over provisioning of the capacity and power consumption to meet traditional response-time QoS guarantees. In this paper, we propose a graduated, distribution-b...

We present a mathematically rigorous Quality-of-Service (QoS) metric which relates the achievable quality of service metric (QoS) for a real-time analytics service to the server energy cost of offering the service. Using a new iso-QoS evaluation methodology, we scale server resources to meet QoS targets and directly rank the servers in terms of their energy-efficiency and by extension cost of o...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the willingness to pay (WTP) per quality-adjusted life year (QALY) value for life-saving treatments and to determine factors affecting the WTP per QALY value. DESIGN A cross-sectional survey with multistage sampling and face-to-face interviews. SETTING General population in the southern part of Thailand. PARTICIPANTS A total of 600 individuals were included in the st...

In this paper, we argue that servers can be sent to homes and office buildings and used as a primary heat source. We call this approach the Data Furnace or DF. Data Furances have three advantages over traditional data centers: 1) a smaller carbon footprint 2) reduced total cost of ownership per server 3) closer proximity to the users. From the home owner’s perspective, a DF is equivalent to a t...

Architecture-level evaluations of Palladio currently lack support for the analysis of the power efficiency of software systems and the effect of power management techniques on other quality characteristics. This neglects that the power consumption of software systems constitutes a substantial proportion of their total cost of ownership. Currently, reasoning on the influence of design decisions ...

There has been a lot of problems for Universities that the main problems of the students are obliged to pay high fees for education and also inability of university to provide appropriate services in terms of quality and quantity of the students. These two factors cause psychological and even physical problems in the country's students an after a while their motivation for continuing education ...

background and purpose: quality of life is a ubiquitous concept, and improving quality of life plays a pivotal role in the promotion of individual and social health. this parameter requires exclusive attention in case of students since quality of life remarkably affects learning and academic achievement.this study aimed to evaluate quality of life among the students of islamic azad university o...