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New Efficient Mds Array Codes For Raid Part Ii: Rabin-Like Codes For Tolerating Multiple (>=4) Disk Failures, Gui-Liang Feng, Robert H. Deng, Feng Bao

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

A new class of Binary Maximum Distance Separable (MDS) array codes which are based on circular permutation matrices are introduced in this paper. These array codes are used for tolerating multiple (greater than or equal to 4) disk failures in Redundant Arrays of Inexpensive Disks (RAID) architecture. The size of the information part is m \times n, where n is the number of information disks and (m+1) is a prime integer; the size of the parity-check part is m \times r, the minimum distance is r+1, and the number of parity-check disks is r. In practical applications, m can be …

Giving Users The Steering Wheel For Guiding Resource-Adaptive Systems, Joao Sousa, Rajesh Krishna Balan, Vahe Poladian, David Garlan, Mahadev Satyanarayanan

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Addressing resource variation plays an increasingly important role in engineering today's software systems. Research in resource-adaptive applications takes an important step towards addressing this problem. However, existing solutions stop short of addressing the fact that different user tasks often have specific goals of quality of service, and that such goals often entail multiple aspects of quality of service. This paper presents a framework for engineering software systems capable of adapting to resource variations in ways that are specific to the quality goals of each user task. For that, users are empowered to specify their task-specific preferences with respect to multiple …

A Framework To Learn Bayesian Network From Changing, Multiple-Source Biomedical Data, Li G., Tze-Yun Leong

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Structure learning in Bayesian network is a big issue. Many efforts have tried to solve this problem and quite a few algorithms have been proposed. However, when we attempt to apply the existing methods to microarray data, there are three main challenges: 1) there are many variables in the data set, 2) the sample size is small, and 3) microarray data are changing from experiment to experiment and new data are available quickly. To address these three problems, we assume that the major functions of a kind of cells do not change too much in different experiments, and propose a …

Recalibrating The War On Terror By Enhancing Development Practices In The Middle East, Kevin J. Fandl

ExpressO

This research paper suggests that the cart has been placed before the horse, that democratization and open markets in the Middle East are more likely the result of effective development than the catalyst for it. The war on terror has been justified by the United States as an effective means of reducing the possibility of terrorist attacks. This paper analyzes the validity of those justifications by reviewing the linkage between democracy and economic growth and that between democracy and peace.

The paper begins by hypothesizing that the war on terror and forced democratization of the Middle East are leading to …

The Cord Weekly (November 30, 2005)

The Cord

No abstract provided.

The Register, 2005-11-30, North Carolina Agricutural And Technical State University

NCAT Student Newspapers

No abstract provided.

November 30th 2005, Hispanic News

Inland Empire Hispanic News

No abstract provided.

28th Annual Economic Forecast Set For December 8, Chapman University Media Relations

Chapman Press Releases 2003-2011

No abstract provided.

Ists E-Newsletter, November 30, 2005, Iowa Academy Of Science

ISTS Newsletter

In this issue:

--Notes from Your President

--VIP Message IAS Executive Director

--ISTS News New Section Chairs Fall Conference News

--Announcements

--Your ISTS Leadership Team

Stock Option Repricing And Executive Turnover, Jon E. Flatnes

Award Winning Economics Papers

With the increasing importance of stock options as a component of executive compensation , it is important to understand their effectiveness in aligning executive interests with those of shareholders and their function as a retention device. With the collapse of the tech stock bubble in the past three years, compensation committees of an increasing number of firms have repriced previously granted stock options downward. While many authors argue that downward repricing is essential to intentivize executives and to retain valuable managers, repricing also creates a potential disincentive to performance by granting the executive a potential windfall while the stock price …

Prospectus, November 30, 2005, Jon Volkman, Erik Pheifer, James Casey, Ellen Schmidt, Theresa Campagna, E. Clarkson, Larry V. Gilbert, Jake Mcgill

Prospectus 2005

No abstract provided.

Exploring State Policy Regarding Teachers Removing License Endorsements: Short Term And Long Term Policy Implications, Penelope Earley, S. David Brazer

Education Policy Analysis Archives (EPAA)

This study explores and begins baseline documentation of state policies governing teachers’ voluntary removal of endorsement areas from their licenses. Through a survey of state licensure officers we find that most states allow teachers to remove endorsements, though the specifics of how this can be done vary from state to state. ...

Download Full Pdf Issue Volume1, Issue 1 - Msph Newsletter 2005

Public Health Link

Inaugural Issue Master of Science in Public Health Student Newsletter. Newsletter includes thesis presenters and topics, upcoming events, reminders, and student opportunities.

Education Policy Analysis Archives 13/47 , Arizona State University, University Of South Florida

College of Education Publications

Exploring state policy regarding teachers removing license endorsements: short term and long term policy implications / Penelope Earley [and] S. David Brazer.

Question Of Bias: A Content Analysis Of The Visual Coverage Of The 2004 Presidential Campaign, Angie Bergstrom

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis focuses on the question of preferential treatment by U.S. national newsmagazines of presidential candidates in the 2004 election as evidenced by their visual coverage. Using content analysis, all the visual depictions of candidates George W. Bush and John Kerry were analyzed for 10 visual attributes to determine whether one had received better pictorial treatment. This study asked if the newsmagazines had printed greater amounts of visuals overall for one candidate and if one candidate's visuals were more or less positive than the other. The author concludes that more coverage was given to Bush over Kerry in a 60/40 …

Banner News, Chan Soo Park, Mary Elizabeth Drahos, Cindy Wisecup, Kelly Ingstad, Moses Powell Eckstein, Linda Carr, Andrew Penner, Chris Williams, Emily Cooper

Banner News

No abstract provided.

The Spinnaker Vol. 29 No. 16, University Of North Florida

Spinnaker

Student newspaper for the UNF community

Job Training That Gets Results: Ten Principles Of Effective Employment Programs, Michael Bernick

Upjohn Press

Bernick shows the types of training programs that work and describes for whom they work. He identifies ways to improve performance among Workforce Investment Act (WIA) contractors while exploring the best uses for state discretionary WIA funds. He also describes what it takes to make an effective career ladder program, how postemployment welfare retention or skill advancement programs can succeed, and the type of training that workers with disabilities must go through to get and retain jobs.

2005 Field Inventory Of Breeding Birds At Seven Riparian Sites In Cibola And Sandoval Counties, Nm, Hawks Aloft, Inc.

Multi-Species Reports (Hawks Aloft)

No abstract provided.

November 30, 2005, Library Advisory Board

Booth Collaborative Advisory Committee Minutes

No abstract provided.

Spartan Daily, November 30, 2005, San Jose State University, School Of Journalism And Mass Communications

Spartan Daily (School of Journalism and Mass Communications)

Volume 125, Issue 52

Teacher Evaluation In Chinese Elementary Schools: An Historical Account, Ping Zeng

Theses and Dissertations

This research is an historical account of the development of teacher evaluation in Chinese elementary schools. Descriptive by nature, it reviews the historical origins that have shaped the teaching profession and evaluation practice. It also describes the effort made by the government and educators in the reform to improve the elementary school teacher evaluation system in China. The findings of this research focus on the complexity and problems in the teacher evaluation system and painful struggles teachers have experienced. Suggestions are provided in terms of possible improvement of the teacher evaluation system and establishment of national evaluation standards to facilitate …

Spectator 2005-11-30, Editors Of The Spectator

The Spectator

No abstract provided.

It's Happening At State: November 30, 2005

It's Happening at State

Provides summary information of news and events of interest to the faculty and staff of NDSU.

Montana Kaimin, November 30, 2005, Students Of The University Of Montana, Missoula

Montana Kaimin, 1898-present

Student newspaper of the University of Montana, Missoula.

The Market Potential Of A New High-Oleic Soybean Developed At Unl, Amalia Yiannaka

Cornhusker Economics

The introduction of genetically modified (GM) products into the food system has been a contentious issue eliciting divergent responses from the major players in the agri-food sector. While farmers have been embracing the agronomic benefits associated with the first generation of producer-oriented GM products, an increasing number of consumers have been raising objections to food containing GM ingredients in major markets around the world. Consumer reaction to GM products is founded on health, environmental, ethical and/or philosophical concerns, and has impaired the potential of agricultural biotechnology.

The Bg News November 30, 2005, Bowling Green State University

BG News (Student Newspaper)

The BGSU campus student newspaper. November 30, 2005. Volume 96-Issue 66.

Data Adaptive Pathway Testing, Merrill D. Birkner, Alan E. Hubbard, Mark J. Van Der Laan

U.C. Berkeley Division of Biostatistics Working Paper Series

A majority of diseases are caused by a combination of factors, for example, composite genetic mutation profiles have been found in many cases to predict a deleterious outcome. There are several statistical techniques that have been used to analyze these types of biological data. This article implements a general strategy which uses data adaptive regression methods to build a specific pathway model, thus predicting a disease outcome by a combination of biological factors and assesses the significance of this model, or pathway, by using a permutation based null distribution. We also provide several simulation comparisons with other techniques. In addition, …

The Effects Of Cooperative Learning On The Math Performance In Students With Emotional Behavior Disorders?, Michael Ramboldt

Theses and Graduate Projects

The purpose of this study is to examine the effects of cooperative learning (CL) on the math performance of middle and high school students with Emotional Behavior Disabilities (EB/D). Two classes, for a total of 16 students, participated in the study. One class of eight students was used as the control group. The other class of nine students was placed in three groups of three cooperative learning teams. The study was conducted between September 1", 2004 and March 20, 2005. This was the equivalent of three quarters of the school year with cooperative learning being used as the instructional strategy …

Experiences With "Quality" Labeling Of Food Products, Thomas L. Dobbs

Economics Commentator (1972- 2016)

No abstract provided.