job satisfaction is a positive or pleasant emotional state resulting from a person’s appreciation of his/her own job or experience. the study purpose was to model job satisfaction for teachers working in agricultural institutes within mazandaran province of iran. the study used a descriptive-correlative design . the statistical population (including all instructors working for agricultural inst...

Correlations in traffic patterns are an important facet of the workloads faced by real systems, and one that has far-reaching consequences on the performance and optimization of the systems involved. However, all the existing analytical work on understanding the effect of correlations between successive service requirements (job sizes) is limited to First-Come-First-Served scheduling. This leav...

In this paper a novel job allocation scheme in distributed systems (TAGS) is modelled using the Markovian process algebra PEPA. This scheme requires no prior knowledge of job size and has been shown to be more efficient than round robin and random allocation when the job size distribution is heavy tailed and the load is not high. In this paper the job size distribution is assumed to be of a pha...

The Shortest Remaining Processing Time (SRPT) scheduling policy was proven, in the 1960s, to yield the smallest mean response time, and recently it was proven its performance gain over Processor Sharing (PS) usually does not come at the expense of large jobs. However, despite the many advantages of SRPT scheduling, it is not widely applied. One important reason for the sporadic application of S...

In this paper, a design of an unequal split Wilkinson power divider (WPD), with high power split ratio, using non-uniform transmission lines (NTLs) is presented. The design is based on using NTLs in each branch of the divider instead of the conventional uniform ones. Besides the achievement of high power split ratio, the size of the designed WPD is reduced. The design procedure is presented for...

Most skills acquired through on-the-job training may be specific to an occupation and therefore transferable to some but not all firms. However, economists have typically focused on skills that are either specific to a given firm or skills that are completely general. This paper explores the relationship between the size of the local market for an occupation-specific skill and job-training outc...

We propose a modified two-step approach for estimating the mean of a sensitive variable using an additive optional RRT model which allows respondents the option of answering a quantitative sensitive question directly without using the additive scrambling if they find the question non-sensitive. This situation has been handled before in Gupta et al. (2010) using the split sample approach. In thi...

We study a problem of allocating divisible jobs, arriving online, to workers in a crowdsourcing setting which involves learning two parameters of strategically behaving workers. Each job is split into a certain number of tasks that are then allocated to workers. Each arriving job has to be completed within a deadline and each task has to be completed satisfying an upper bound on probability of ...