Background: Our previous research concerned the relation between Sense of Coherence, workplace stress, and burnout for nurses in their first three years work. We found that psychological state months on job was particularly critical to success retention. As stress increased over years, Coherence declined, increased. Follow-up interviews after five revealed importance identifying role models ear...

The exploitation of idle cycles on pervasive desktop PC systems offers the opportunity to increase the available computing power by orders of magnitude (10x 1000x). However, for desktop PC distributed computing to be widely accepted within the enterprise, the systems must achieve high levels of efficiency, robustness, security, scalability, manageability, unobtrusiveness, and openness/ease of a...

EXECUTIVE OVERVIEW The speed and unpredictability of business cycles have pushed many enterprises to the limit of manageability. Organizations need to become more adaptable but often their information systems are slow to respond. At the same time, these enterprises want to gain greater efficiency from their IT systems and lower the cost of computing. Grid computing is a new IT architecture that...

OBJECTIVES There is evidence to support the correlation between a stronger sense of coherence (SOC) and better perceived quality of life (QOL). However, this association has not been described among Iranian students. METHODS Students were selected by stratified randomization and demographic data including age, gender, and employment status were collected. SOC was measured using the short-form...

In this paper, we construct confidence sets for models defined by many conditional moment inequalities/equalities. The conditional moment restrictions in the models can be finite, countably infinite, or uncountably infinite. To deal with the complication brought about by the vast number of moment restrictions, we exploit the manageability (Pollard (1990)) of the class of moment functions. We ve...

Communication-intensive parallel applications spend a significant amount of their total execution time exchanging data between processes, which leads to poor performance in many cases. In this paper, we investigate message compression in the context of large-scale parallel message-passing systems to reduce the communication time of individual messages and to improve the bandwidth of the overall...