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Mapreduce With Communication Overlap (Marco), Faraz Ahmad, Seyong Lee, Mithuna Thottethodi, T. N. Vijaykumar

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Technical Reports

MapReduce is a programming model from Google for
cluster-based computing in domains such as search
engines, machine learning, and data mining. MapReduce
provides automatic data management and fault tolerance to
improve programmability of clusters. MapReduce’s execution
model includes an all-map-to-all-reduce communication,
called the shuffle, across the network bisection. Some
MapReductions move large amounts of data (e.g., as much
as the input data), stressing the bisection bandwidth and
introducing significant runtime overhead. Optimizing such
shuffle-heavy MapReductions is important because (1)
they include key applications (e.g., inverted indexing for
search engines and data clustering for machine learning)
and (2) they run longer …

People Profile: Hope Barton, Editor

Against the Grain

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I Hear The Train A Comin' -- The Charleston Conference At 27, Greg Tananbaum

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Back Talk -- Freedom To Read, Speak, And Listen, Anthony (Tony) W. Ferguson

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Moving Beyond Marc: Initiating And Embracing Change In A Traditional Technical Services Department, Melanie Feltner-Reichert, Marielle Veve

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People Profile: Stephanie Mcconnell, Editor

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Use Of Technology In Managing Electronic Resource Workflow, Nathan Rupp, Liisa Mobley

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People Profile: Michael Wright, Editor

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Full Page Ads, Editor

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Biofuel Feedstocks: The Risk Of Future Invasions, Joseph M. Ditomaso, Jacob N. Barney, Alison M. Fox

United States Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service / University of Nebraska-Lincoln: Faculty Publications

In an effort to decrease greenhouse gas emissions, expand domestic energy production, and maintain economic growth, public and private investments are being used to pursue dedicated feedstock crops for biofuel production. Unlike food crops grown for grain-based ethanol (e.g., corn), which require high inputs of fertilizers and pesticides and typically are grown on prime agricultural land, proposed lignocellulose-based energy crops (e.g., switchgrass) typically have a neutral or negative carbon budget, require relatively few economic or environmental inputs, and can be cultivated on marginal, lower-productivity land. Thus, a rapidly growing industry related to crop selection, cultivar improvement, and conversion technologies is …

Old Wine In New Bottles: Repurposing Marc Records For Electronic Databases, Carol Ou, Gwen Gregory

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If Rumors Were Horses, Katina Strauch

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Biz Of Acq -- Credit Card 101: Policies And Practices, Joe Badics

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Legally Speaking -- Virtual Copyright: The Applicability And Ownership Of Copyright In Second Life, Bryan M. Carson J.D., M.I.L.S.

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Technical Services Departments In The Digital Age: The Four R'S Of Adapting To New Technology, Leslie Burke, Stephanie Mcconnell

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Look How Far We've Come: Changing Techical Services Workflows, Kristen Devoe

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People Profile: Barbara Pope, Editor

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People Profile; Leslie Burke, Editor

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2008 Charleston Conference -- 28th Annual Issues In Book And Serial Acquisition, Editor

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From The University Presses -- Anachronisms Or Innovators? Reflections On University Presses As Portrayed In The Ithaka Report, Sanford G. Thatcher

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Catalog Information And User Expectations In An Amazoogle World: Too Much? Too Little?, Martin L. Knott, Doreen R. Bradley, Deborah S. Degeorge, Jim Ottaviani

Against the Grain

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Fact Sheet - Sacred Heart University - Fall 2007, Office Of Institutional Research

News, Magazines and Reports

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The Military And Reconstruction Operations, Mick Ryan

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

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Stabilization And Democratization: Renewing The Transatlantic Alliance, Zachary Selden

The US Army War College Quarterly: Parameters

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S-Made: Interactive Storytelling Architecture Through Goal Execution And Decomposition, Yundong Cai, Zhiqi Shen, Chunyan Miao, Ah-Hwee Tan

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Interactive storytelling, emerging with virtual reality technology, has attracted a lot of research interests in recent years. In order to bridge the gap between story generation and story presentation, some hybrid narrative models are raised. In this paper, we propose a new hybrid interactive storytelling architecture S-MADE. It combines the story plot generation and character performance through goal execution and decomposition mechanism. Fuzzy Cognitive Goal Net (FCGN) is a goal modeling tool for modeling the story scenario and character behaviors. The goal decomposition algorithm enables for director agent to dispatch acts to characters easily. With this system, dynamic storylines as …

Keep Out Of Myspace!: Protecting Students From Unconstitutional Suspensions And Expulsions, Christi Cassel

William & Mary Law Review

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The Preemployment Ethical Role Of Lawyers: Are Lawyers Really Fiduciaries?, Fred C. Zacharias

William & Mary Law Review

This Article considers the nature and extent of lawyers' obligations to prospective clients. Most jurisdictions have rules forbidding certain kinds of representation, requiring that particular information be given clients in writing, and regulating fees. Professional code drafters, courts, and commentators, however, have never addressed the broader issue of the lawyer's role at the retainer stage of representation, including whether lawyers have responsibility for providing prospective clients with candid advice regarding the course they should pursue.

The issue is important to clients. A lawyer's action may determine whether a client obtains any representation, competent representation, or a lawyer well suited to …

The Cowl - V. 72 - N. 9 - Nov 1, 2007

The Cowl

The Cowl - student newspaper of Providence College. Volume 72 - Number 9 - November 1, 2007. 24 pages.

An Alternative Strategy For Building Sales Of Computers: Generic Advertising, Min Lu, Steven M. Thompson, Yanbin Tu

Management Faculty Publications

Frequent upgrading and aggressive price-cutting have become standard practice in the computer sector. While necessitated in part by declining production costs and a highly competitive market, these strategies have also served to make computers more affordable, growing the size of the overall market. Recently downturns in the sales of computers motivate us to examine the impact of these strategies on overall sales growth. We find evidence to suggest that excessive upgrading and overly aggressive price-cutting can be detrimental to overall sales growth. We also find that the computer sector exhibits characteristics that suggest that generic advertising would be an effective …

Wireless Power Transmission To A Buried Sensor In Concrete, Khan M.Z. Shams, Mohammod Ali

Faculty Publications

The feasibility of sending wireless power to a buried sensor antenna within concrete was studied. a receive patch rectenna with 75.8% conversion efficiency was designed for operation at 5.7 GHz. The received DC power at the rectenna was measured within dry and wet concrete samples with various cover thicknesses and air-gaps. For the rectenna buried within 30 mm of the concrete, the received DC power was 10.37 mW, which was, about 70% of the received DC power in free-space.