a scientist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) and director of its Center for Ocean, Seafloor, and Marine Observing Systems. " We were asked to do something that we've never done before as a community: think collectively about how to do ocean sciences and work together to set priorities on how to do that. " Because the 2007 NSF budgets proposed by the Bush Administration and approve...

0957-4174/$ see front matter 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2013.08.061 ⇑ Corresponding author. Address: Faculty of Administration, University of Ljubljana, Gosarjeva Ulica 5, 1000 Ljubljan, Slovenia. Tel.: +386 1 580 55 48; fax: +386 1 580 55 21. E-mail address: [email protected] (A. Aristovnik). 1 The state allocates a relatively larg...

I put forward a new theoretical framework to analyze the relationship between soft budget constraint syndrome and the economic performances of firms. It differs from the existing theoretical framework, à la Dewatripont and Maskin (1995), in the soft budget constraint literature. In this paper, soft budget constraint syndrome arises when firms that are expected to lose money are financed. The pa...

Distributed multimedia streaming systems are increasingly popular due to technological advances, and numerous streaming services are available today. On servers or proxy caches, there is a huge scaling challenge in supporting thousands of concurrent users that request delivery of high-rate, time-dependent data like audio and video, because this requires transfers of large amounts of data throug...

Turbo coding has become an attractive scheme for design of current communication systems, providing near optimal bit error rates for data transmission at low signal to noise ratios. However, it is as yet unsuitable for use in mobile systems owing to the high energy consumption of current implementations of the scheme. Due to the data dominated nature of the decoder, a memory organization provid...

Large-scale chip multiprocessors will likely be heterogeneous. It has been suggested by several groups that it may be worthwhile to implement some cores that are specially tuned to execute common code patterns. One such common application that will execute on all future processors is of course the operating system. Many future workloads will spend a large fraction of their execution time within...

In this paper, we present a novel modelling perspective to the food-bank donation allocation problem under equity and efficiency performance measures. Using penalty factor in objective function, our model explicitly accounts for both equity, simultaneously. We give tightest lower upper bounds of factor, which can conveniently characterize closed-form optimal solutions perfect cases. Testing on ...

Optimum utilization of limited resources in the production floor demands that the production manager makes decisions on the best allocation of limited resources. This study applied linear programming techniques to production planning problem in a feed mill producing company. Linear Programming model was formulated based on data obtained from the company operations’ diary. Data was processed wit...