Recently, push-based delivery has attracted considerable attention as a means of disseminating information to large client populations in both wired and wireless environments. In this paper, we address the problem of ensuring the consistency and currency of client's read-only transactions in the case of updates. Our approach is based on broadcasting invalidation reports and is scalable, i.e., i...

This paper empirically compares three estimation methods—regression, calibration, and principal person— used in a household survey for post-stratification. Posttratification is important in many household surveys to adjust for nonresponse and the population undercount that esults from frame deficiencies. The correction for population undercoverage is usually achieved by adjusting estimated peop...

Criminological theorists and criminal justice policy makers place a great deal of importance on the idea of desistance. in general terms, criminal desistance refers to a cessation of offending activity among those who have offended in the past. Some significant challenges await those who would estimate the relative size of the desisting population or attempt to identify factors that predict mem...

You have an application that reads in configuration data at start-up. Your program consists of multiple threads with similar functionality. Some of the configuration data applies to all threads; the other part of the data applies to individual threads only. The configuration data should be read-only after it has been provided at start-up. This paper introduces the pattern Configuration Provider...

Social psychological research often relies on measures of group identification in assessing levels o f group consciousness. However, for women, the relationship between gender identification and group consciousness may not be a straightforward one. Questionnaire data were used to examine the relationships between measures of group identity and group evaluations with other attitudinal, phenomeno...