This project explores the topic of what causes respondents in a survey situation to answer more or less consistently across time to the identical political issue questions. This discussion was begun by Philip Converse in 1964, who used data from the 1956-1958-1960 American National Election Studies panel survey to put forth the idea that certain respondents were generally more consistent across...

Keeping data safe in the presence of crashes is a fundamental problem storage systems. Although high-level ideas for crash consistency are relatively well understood, realizing them practice surprisingly complex and full challenges. The systems research community actively working on solving this challenge, papers examined here offer three solutions.