The job workloads of general-purpose multiprocessors usually include both compute-bound parallel jobs, which often require gang scheduling, as well as I/O-bound jobs, which require high CPU priority for the individual gang members of the job in order to achieve interactive response times. Our results indicate that an eeective interactive multiprocessor scheduler must be exible and tailor the pr...

This article examines the complexity of street gang homicides and focuses on situational factors that lead to gang members' susceptibility to this violent behavior within the context of a disadvantaged minority community. This study is based on an analysis of 28 homicides involving Mexican American gang members. The absence of immigrant youth involvement in these types of violent crimes is disc...

In Hollenbeck, a gang-dominated region of Los Angeles, gang activity has been monitored by the LAPD. One manner has been in the form of non-criminal stops. We propose a spectral clustering algorithm to predict gang affiliation from the information obtained from these stops. Despite the sparseness of data, the combination of geography and the record of individuals involved in a stop reveals the ...

The southeastern US sustains the highest high school dropout rates, and gangs persist in underserved communities. African American female adolescents who drop out of school and are gang members are at substantial risk of exposure to severe violence, physical abuse, and sexual exploitation. In this study of 237 female African American adolescents 16-19 years of age from North Carolina who droppe...

The purpose of the study was to examine prospective childhood risk factors for gang involvement across the course of adolescence among a large eight-year longitudinal sample of 646 Indigenous (i.e., American Indian and Canadian First Nations) youth residing on reservation/reserve land in the Midwest of the United States and Canada. Risk factors at the first wave of the study (ages 10-12) were u...

Applying gang scheduling can alleviate the blockade problem caused by exclusively used space-sharing strategies for parallel processing. However, the original form of gang scheduling is not practical as there are several fundamental problems associated with it. Recently many researchers have developed new strategies to alleviate some of these problems. Unfortunately, one important problem has n...

Abstract The overall aim of this study is to explore the authoritarian dimension in far-right discourse online forums. argues for a focus on articulations authoritarianism understand dynamics discourse. Four central features are identified and explored: 1) values underlying articulated opinions diverse issues; 2) emotional authoritarianism; 3) coexistence civil uncivil 4) role mainstream news a...

Studies of criminal behavior have demonstrated both that there is a career component to criminality and that key turning points in the life course can have large and potentially long-term impacts on criminal involvement (Sampson and Laub 1993). For inner-city youth, the decision to join a gang is considered to be one of the most important decisions. Sociologists and criminologists both cite the...