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... signaling in turbine generators during the 1960's In 1963, GE announced major changes in its turbine-generator pricing policies, issuing a revised price book and eliminating price escalation on orders ... must be incurred inorderto sell inthat market industry, for example, In a research ~and- development-intensive it may be optimal -to maintain costly test facilities, regardless of the output level ... and publishing outstanding orders and quotations inthat same year Citing internal company documents, Justice interpreted Westinghouse's responses as acceptance of a perceived GE invitation to...
... funding costs Hasan and Lorenzo-Vivas (2002) compare mutual and stock types of institutions in the Spanish depository industry during 1986-1995 They find that mutual institutions are more non-interest ... Hermalin and Wallace (1994) study Savings and Loans companies (S&Ls) in the U.S and conclude that when controlling for lines of business, 6 stock S&Ls are more efficient and more likely to stay ... dummies are included, and where also capitalization and the non-interest income share are controlled for However, if capitalization and the non-interest income share should be regarded as intrinsic...
... mechanical means (including photocopying, recording, or information storage and retrieval) without permission in writing from RAND Published 2005 by the RAND Corporation 1776 Main Street, P.O Box ... routine base operations and administrative control functions According to the USAREUR commander’s orders, the intent was to unburden the TF commander and his staff of base operations issues and increase ... This includes but is not limited to the security of Contractor work sites, movement throughout the TO (i.e., between work sites and living and messing areas) and ingress and egress to the TO. ”...
... meeting or exceeding them; ▪ linking change to HRM systems The individuals leading this and similar transformations are not extraordinary They are often doctors who have spent their careers working ... leaders decided it was time to examine their HRM system and practices Training ▪ staff training ▪ management and leadership development ▪ links to external pre-service training In August 2001, the senior ... work to enable others to face challenges and achieve results, understanding that implementing change in human resources requires new ways of working Competing interests The authors declare that...
... mechanical means (including photocopying, recording, or information storage and retrieval) without permission in writing from RAND Published 2005 by the RAND Corporation 1776 Main Street, P.O Box ... routine base operations and administrative control functions According to the USAREUR commander’s orders, the intent was to unburden the TF commander and his staff of base operations issues and increase ... This includes but is not limited to the security of Contractor work sites, movement throughout the TO (i.e., between work sites and living and messing areas) and ingress and egress to the TO. ”...
... reduced to only -0.75 MPa since watering after lifting had increased shoot and root water potentials and prevented water losses during handling Note that the shoot water potential level is in agreement ... Sitka spruce In another study, Menzies (1981) emphasized that water dipping radiata pine seedlings after exposure and just before planting decreased mortality In radiata pine seedlings, therefore, ... water dipping after lifting and again before planting sure is recommended These investigations are necessary to successful outplanting However, such a study has not yet been realized in Picea...
... team performance According to our second hypothesis, indicators of shared mental models (Offering informationand Poor communicating situational awareness) explained 23% and 13% of the variance in ... previous research on teamwork in healthcare, we assumed that, inorderto maximise performance, the interdependent nature of performance Page of in the emergency medical domain would require a high ... members), and d) Communicating situational awareness (e.g provides situation updates) Three psychologists trained in observing and rating the frequency of teamwork skills and shared mental model indicators...
... penetration into the businessand residential community owing to the progress in communication and computer technologies Data networks are based on the packet-switching transfer mode: the informationto ... Single Plane and Internal Queueing 6.2.1 Input queueing 6.2.2 Output queueing 6.2.3 Shared queueing 6.2.4 Performance Networks with Unbuffered Parallel Switching ... bandwidth in each frame thus resulting in a deterministic allocation of the available bandwidth Note that an idle inlet leaves the corresponding slot idle, thus wasting bandwidth in STM The link...
... identical to network B by moving its matrices, and correspondingly its attached links It is worth noting that relabelling the inlets and outlets of network A means adding a proper inlet and outlet ... stages andare moved so as to obtain the Omega topology The mapping between SEs specifying the isomorphism between Φ and Ω can be obtained from Figure 2.18c and is given in Figure 2.18e The inlet and ... column size (nine) TU2 fits directly into a TUG-2 signal whose frame has a size 12 × bytes, whereas TU-11 and TU-12 are byte interleaved into TUG-2 Recall that since the alignment information of...
... mapping of a bitonic sorting network into a Stone network, so that r i ( x ) denotes the row index of the SE in stage i in the old topology to be moved onto row x of the same stage in the new topology ... sorting two ordered sequences of length N ⁄ into one ordered sequence of length N The two basic algorithms to build merging networks are odd–even merge sorting and bitonic merge sorting [Bat68] In ... a bitonic sequence Thus both down- and up-sorters are used in this network: the former in the mergers for increasing sorting, the latter in the mergers for decreasing sorting On the other hand...
... The four tagged links of the tagged paths outgoing from stage are shared by four network inlets in total, owing to the buddy property In fact the two SEs originating the links are reached by the ... self-routing tag that is the juxtaposition of the network destination address (DA) and of a routing index (RI) Both fields RI and DA carry an integer, the former in the interval [ 0, K – ] and coded ... subtree are connected to the outlets of the lower outlet subtree In the upper inlet subtree the tagged link of stage is shared by one conflicting I/O path originating from the other SE inlet (the inlet...
... buffering are distinguished with reference to each single SE or to the whole IN, that is input queueing (IQ), output queueing (OQ) and shared queueing (SQ) The buffer is placed inside the switching ... exploiting the principle of deflection routing; output queueing (OQ) is basically adopted; • non-blocking IN with single queueing: the interconnection network is internally non-blocking andIN queueing ... adopting SEs with input queueing or output queueing is based on this last paper and takes into account the modification and improvements described in [Pat91], mainly directed to improve the computational...
... considered where both input and output queues are equipped, thus achieving a combined input–output queueing1 Input and output queues reside in the input (IPC) and output (OPC) port controller, respectively, ... and then stored in the switch output interface while waiting to be transmitted downstream; • shared queueing (SQ), in which a queueing capability shared by all switch input and output interfaces ... conflict winner is selected random, top winner (TW) and bottom winner (BW), in which the conflict winner is always the packet received on the top (0) and bottom (1) SE inlet, respectively To explain...
... non-blocking ATM switching architectures combining different queueing strategies, that is: • combined input–output queueing (IOQ), in which cells received by the switch are first stored in an input ... relieving the throughput degradation due to the HOL blocking in switches with input queueing is windowing [Hlu88] It consists in allowing a cell other than the HOL cell of an input queue to be ... switching in a non-blocking network provided with an output speed-up, cells enter an output queue; • combined shared-output queueing (SOQ), in which cells are not stored at the switch inlets and are...
... distributed shared buffer and feeds back to the routing network up to P = NB s packets that could not be switched in the preceding slot Input and output links I i and O i are terminated on port ... non-blocking switching structure with input (or input and output) queueing converges quite rapidly to the asymptotic throughput as the switch size increases Unless specified otherwise, solid lines in the ... 317 Combined Shared-Output Queueing The windowing technique, described in Section 7.1.3.2 and aimed at reducing the throughput limitation due to the HOL blocking, can be applied in principle...
... according to the stage index In particular the interstage patterns are such that the subnetwork including n adjacent stages ( n = log 2N ) starting from stage + k ( n – ) (k integer) has the topology ... switching element it is crossing to the required outlet is defined as the minimum number of downstream stages to be crossed by the cell inorderto enter an SE interfacing the addressed output queue ... Self-Routing and Rerouting switches, also in this case the number of links entering each output queue interface reduces to K – ( n – ) since all cells must cross at least n stages The routing algorithm...
... combinatorial power 73 combined input-output queueing 212, 241, 275, 283, 284, 315, 332, 333 combined input-shared queueing 283, 324, 325, 332 combined shared-output queueing 283, 317 combiner ... complex, since its total number of stages (and hence the number of links to each output queue) is 39 ⋅ = 78 Similar comments apply using interstage bridging and extended routing, when applicable, in ... the B locations in the waiting line and the C server positions, then moves C of the customers (if available) to the servers and stores the remaining customers (up to B) in the queue The system evolution...
... companies thatare not listed or thatare listed and were not included in the sample Corporate Governance Index, Firm Valuation andPerformancein Brazil 2.6 Description of variables and model Inorder ... non-voting shares appears to be used by large shareholders to maintain control of the firm without having to hold 50% of the total capital This mechanism allows companies to issue shares without relinquishing ... large shareholders to maintain control of the firm without having to hold 50% of the total capital Panel data analysis is employed inorderto allow flexibility in modeling differences in behavior...
... companies thatare not listed or thatare listed and were not included in the sample Corporate Governance Index, Firm Valuation andPerformancein Brazil 2.6 Description of variables and model Inorder ... non-voting shares appears to be used by large shareholders to maintain control of the firm without having to hold 50% of the total capital This mechanism allows companies to issue shares without relinquishing ... large shareholders to maintain control of the firm without having to hold 50% of the total capital Panel data analysis is employed inorderto allow flexibility in modeling differences in behavior...