the psychology and economics of demand

The Design and Implementation of a Log-Structured File System

The Design and Implementation of a Log-Structured File System

... clean. The policy rates each segment according to the benefit of cleaning the segment and the cost of cleaning the segment and chooses the segments with the highest ratio of benefit to cost. The benefit ... shows the relative importance of the various kinds of data written to disk, both in terms of how much of the live blocks they occupy on disk and in terms of how much of the data written to the ... sequen- tially, then writes 100 Mbytes randomly to the existing file, then reads 100 Mbytes randomly from the file, and finally reads the file sequentially again. The bandwidth of each of the five phases...

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The Breadth and Depth of DSP

The Breadth and Depth of DSP

... specialized audience. State -of -the- art researchers need this kind of detailed mathematics to understand the theoretical implications of the work. A basic premise of this book is that most practical ... with radio waves to probe the interior of the human body. Properly adjusting the strength and frequency of the fields cause the atomic nuclei in a localized region of the body to resonate between ... word in the incoming audio signal is isolated and then analyzed to identify the type of excitation and resonate frequencies. These parameters are then compared with previous examples of spoken...

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Cambridge.University.Press.Fearing.Others.The.Nature.and.Treatment.of.Social.Phobia.Mar.2007.pdf

Cambridge.University.Press.Fearing.Others.The.Nature.and.Treatment.of.Social.Phobia.Mar.2007.pdf

... contempt and ridicule instead, further diminishing their rather uncertain standing within the group. Concerned both about losing and winning À thereby stoking the resentment of other competitors À they ... of the notion of social phobia and its equivalents (mostly from the end of nineteenth century France) in the context of a rising interest in anxiety-related phenomena and the desire to give them ... this end, they make themselves agreeable, smiling and nodding with interest and approval with those they know. When not preoccupied with them- selves, they can be well attuned to the needs of others and...

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Báo cáo y học: "Management of chest pain: exploring the views and experiences of chiropractors and medical practitioners in a focus group interview"

Báo cáo y học: "Management of chest pain: exploring the views and experiences of chiropractors and medical practitioners in a focus group interview"

... referral) may depend on the nature of the condition, whether the refer- ral is for reasons of diagnosis and/ or treatment, the pref- erence of the provider, and the relationship between the providers. ... composed of both chiropractic and medical professionals. The goals of the focus group were to explore the attitudes and experiences of medical and chiropractic clinicians regarding their patients ... situation, that the point of referral may depend on the familiarity or relationship between the providers, and that the nature of the referral (e.g., amount and type of information accompanying the referral)...

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Evaluating the Reliability and Validity of an English Achievement Test for Third-year Non- major students at the University of Technology, Ho Chi Minh National University and some suggestions for chan

Evaluating the Reliability and Validity of an English Achievement Test for Third-year Non- major students at the University of Technology, Ho Chi Minh National University and some suggestions for chan

... criteria of good tests and theoretical ideas on test reliability and validity as well as achievement tests. Chapter 3- The study is the main part of the thesis showing the context of the study and the ... interpretations to the ones intended. (Hughes, A. 1989: 38). In the case of the English section at the University of Technology, the teachers should do the trial tests first and then, mark and remark the ... validity. These conclusions are as follows: The test with chosen items is compatible with the aims of the courses and the objectives of the syllabus and the test specification. However, with the negative...

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The Ins and Outs of Loading External Assets

The Ins and Outs of Loading External Assets

... You can reuse that graphic on any number of pages, and all of the pages on which it appears will reflect those changes anytime you update that graphic. The same holds true for externally loaded ... Video assets can be loaded using an instance of the netStream() class; however, the Media components provide a much easier interface for getting video (and MP3) content into your project, as we'll ... we'll discuss later in this lesson. In the following exercises, you'll learn how to load a variety of external file types, and how to control these assets using ActionScript. <...

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What are the advantages and disadvantages of supermarkets

What are the advantages and disadvantages of supermarkets

... people. And those shops may be the only source of living of then. To conclude I would like to express my opinion which rather possitive. I think that supermarkets are great creatures and the more ... always found there. One the other hand shopping in supermarkets can be annoying beckause there is a big choice which can cause confusion. People often buy unnecessary things beckause they seeing ... do not actually need. For many of us the major disadvantage of shopping in supermarkets id that it is time consuming and it takes a while to getthere and back. Big stores are also quite dangerous...

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Development of a Regional Risk Management Framework for APEC Economies for use in the Control and Prevention of Introduced Marine Pests

Development of a Regional Risk Management Framework for APEC Economies for use in the Control and Prevention of Introduced Marine Pests

... Framework  Conclusions, including the results of the November 2001 Workshop Management Framework - Introd uced Marine Pests Management capabilities and approaches  APEC and the MRCWG have a role in ... management at the pre- border, border and post border levels  Need to develop awareness of the problem in APEC Economies  Need appropriate information systems and tools  Need to develop and adapt ... Introd uced Marine Pests Priorities and hazards for Economies  Variable levels of activity and management capability  Ships’ ballast water and hull fouling are the most important vectors  International...

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The fall and rise of the American petty bourgeoisie

The fall and rise of the American petty bourgeoisie

... participation. All of these, except for professional services, contributed positively both to the sectoral shift in self-employment and the class shift. At the other end of the spectrum, 11 of the 12 sectors ... the decomposition of these effects on self-employment, the picture becomes somewhat more complex. In both the 1970s and the 1980s, the detailed sectors of the economy within which there was the ... to their occupational activities. And, while there are many studies of small business and of speciđc categories of self-employ- ment, especially farmers and various kinds of professionals, there...

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