The present study intends to investigate the relationship between farm size and productivity. objectives of are: productivity, suggest some policy implications. is based on secondary data. Data were collected from different published unpublished documents. main findings small farms have higher productivity land than larger ones, there exists inverse relationship, few studies showed that althoug...

This is a position paper on multi-tenant databases. As motivation, it first describes the emerging marketplace of hosted enterprise services and the importance of using multi-tenancy to handle high traffic volumes at low cost. It then outlines the main requirements on multi-tenant databases: scale up by consolidating multiple tenants onto the same server and scale out by providing an administra...

This research analyzes the proposal of former President Lenin Moreno Garcés for granting General Regulation Organic Law Humanitarian Support to combat health crisis derived from COVID 19, in Ecuador 2020. The includes labor measures such as option signing agreements between employers and workers, a new type fixed-term contract an emerging special purpose, reduction working hours, early vacation...

speed in electronic transactions forms a new kind of software agreements known as end use license agreement. in american legal system, there is no unit procedure. end user license agreement was begun by shrinkwrap and clickwrap agreements. browsewrap agreement is the latest development type of them. shrinkwrap agreements are usually formed by opening of the plastic cover of software package or ...

We present OPTiC, a multi-tenant scheduler intended for distributed graph processing frameworks. OPTiC proposes opportunistic scheduling, whereby queued jobs can be pre-scheduled at cluster nodes when the cluster is fully busy running jobs. This allows overlapping of data ingress with ongoing computation. To pre-schedule wisely, OPTiC’s novel contribution is a profile-free and cluster-agnostic ...

Theoretical analyses of international environmental agreements (IEAs) have typically employed the concept of self-enforcing agreements to predict the number of parties to such an agreement. The term self-enforcing, however, is a bit misleading. The concept refers to the stability of cooperative agreements, not to enforcing these agreements once they are in place. Most analyses of IEAs simply ig...

We consider a market where there is an agency relationship between the providers of a service or agents and their clients. Agents can choose to work alone or to have a sharing agreement with other agents. Sharing agreements create value by facilitating better matches between clients and agents, but they worsen incentives because of free riding. We show that in the context of a one shot game, th...