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International Financial Regulation, Access To Finance, Systemic Stability, And Development
June 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Global financial markets are subject to a complex web of soft law rules and standards called International Financial Regulation. The main rationales/objectives of International Financial...
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Financial Option Market Model for Federated Cloud Environments
September 7, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Pay-per-use service by Cloud service providers has attracted customers in the recent past and is still evolving. Since the resources being dealt within Clouds are non-storable and the physical...
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Opportunistic Network Coding and Dynamic Buffer Allocation in a Wireless Butterfly Network
October 27, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors first propose a discrete-time Markov queuing model for a wireless lossy butterfly network which employs opportunistic network coding and dynamic buffer allocation at the bottlenecked...
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Mobility Prediction and Spatial-Temporal Traffic Estimation in Wireless Networks
April 15, 2008, 12:00am PDT
An understanding of the network traffic behavior is essential in the evolution of today's wireless networks, and thus leads to a more efficient planning and management of the network's scarce...
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Discrete Time Analysis of Cognitive Radio Networks With Saturated Source of Secondary Users
May 31, 2011, 12:00am PDT
The strategy used for sensing in a cognitive radio network affects the white space that Secondary Users (SUs) perceive and hence their throughput. For example, let the average time interval...
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Microfinance Regulation And Social Protection
November 11, 2010, 12:00am PST
Arguably, micro-finance provides social protection for the vulnerable by enabling them to access finance, create assets and avoid backsliding into poverty traps. This paper aims to survey the...
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Capital Regulation, Monetary Policy And Financial Stability
March 5, 2011, 12:00am PST
This paper examines the roles of bank capital regulation and monetary policy in mitigating procyclicality and promoting macroeconomic and financial stability. The analysis is based on a dynamic...
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Does Microfinance Reduce Poverty In Bangladesh? New Evidence From Household Panel Data
October 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The purpose of the present paper is to examine whether microfinance reduces poverty in Bangladesh drawing upon the nationally representative household panel data covering 4 rounds from 1997 to...
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Microfinance And Poverty A Macro Perspective
October 27, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper tests the hypothesis that microfinance reduces poverty at macro level using cross-country and panel data, based on the Microfinance Information EXchange (MIX) data on MFIs and the new...
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Microfinance And Household Poverty Reduction: New Evidence From India
April 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The objective of the present paper is to examine whether household access to microfinance reduces poverty. Using national household data from India, treatment effects model is employed to estimate...
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Does Microfinance Reduce Poverty In India?
December 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Drawing upon national household data from 2001, the present paper analyses the impact of access to Micro Finance Institutions (MFIs) on household poverty in India. Propensity Score Matching (PSM)...
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Finance, Growth, Inequality And Hunger In Asia: Evidence From Country Panel Data In 1960-2006
December 16, 2008, 12:00am PST
Building on the recent literature on finance, growth and hunger, the authors have empirically examined the experience of 9 Asian countries over the period 1960-2006 using static and dynamic panel...
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Financial Crisis In Asia And The Pacific Region: Its Genesis, Severity And Impact On Poverty And Hunger
November 19, 2008, 12:00am PST
Building on a vast recent literature on finance, growth and hunger, the authors have examined the experience of 9 Asian countries over the period 1960-2006, using a state-of art-econometric...
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Vertical Handover in Beyond Third Generation (B3G) Wireless Networks
November 28, 2008, 12:00am PST
Currently, there are several wireless networks deployed around the world. Examples include cellular networks, metropolitan area networks, wireless local area networks, and personal area networks....
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Internal Versus External DSLs for Trace Analysis Extended Abstract
August 19, 2011, 12:00am PDT
This paper explores the design and implementation issues arising in the development of domain-specific languages for trace analysis. It introduces the audience to the general concepts underlying...
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Checking Flight Rules With TRACECONTRACT Application of a Scala DSL for Trace Analysis
May 31, 2011, 12:00am PDT
Typically during the design and development of a NASA space mission, rules and constraints are identified to help reduce reasons for failure during operations. These flight rules are usually...
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TRACECONTRACT: A Scala DSL for Trace Analysis
April 4, 2011, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors describe TRACECONTRACT, an API for trace analysis, implemented in the SCALA programming language. They argue that for certain forms of trace analysis the best weapon is...
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Rule Systems for Runtime Verification
July 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In this paper, the authors introduce two rule-based systems for on and offline trace analysis, RULER and LOGSCOPE. RULER is a conditional rule-based system, which has a simple and easily...
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A Plea for Glasnost Between the Machine Learning and Computer Systems Communities
April 21, 2009, 12:00am PDT
As machine learning scales to larger and more complex problems, the community increasingly requires higher performance computer systems. Meanwhile in order to achieve higher performance, computer...
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Meaningful Type Names as a Basis for Object Lifetime Prediction
October 13, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Object lifetime prediction can identify short-lived and long-lived objects at or before their heap-allocation point. This prediction is an increasingly important technique to enable optimization...
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Parallel Query Processing on the Grid
March 3, 2009, 12:00am PST
Database queries offer an easy-to-use declarative manner for describing complex data management tasks. Query processing technologies have been evolving for decades; however, the emergence of the...
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Applying Dataflow and Transactions to Lee Routing
March 21, 2012, 12:00am PDT
Programming multicore shared-memory systems is a challenging combination of exposing parallelism in their program and communicating between the resulting parallel paths of execution. The burden of...
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Transaction Reordering to Reduce Aborts in Software Transactional Memory
March 30, 2009, 12:00am PDT
In transactional memory, conflicts between two concurrently executing transactions reduce performance, reduce scalability, and may lead to aborts, which waste computing resources. Ideally,...
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Integrating Object-Oriented and Ontological Representations: A Case Study in Java and OWL
August 8, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The Web Ontology Language (OWL) provides a modelling paradigm that is especially well suited for developing models of large, structurally complex domains such as those found in Health Care and the...
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e-Science Application Development: Analyst and User Perspectives
June 3, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Potential users of e-science software often have strong technical skills, ranging from the use of scripting languages to the development of substantial pieces of software used by other members of...
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Rural Sector Reform And Internet Adoption In NGOs: The Case Of Indonesia
February 13, 2008, 12:00am PST
Today rural sector reform is a paramount issue in Indonesian development. Yet, different social actors have different perspectives and stances towards it. Non-Government Organizations (NGOs) in...
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Chinese Public Finance Framework: A Critical Analysis
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper explores the complexities of government financial management in China and examines the nature of the recent Public Finance Framework reform in that country. The authors argue that this...
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Control Of Relational Risk In Offshore Accounting And Finance Outsourcing: Case Evidence From UK And India
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Many companies in USA and Western Europe are taking advantage of developments in information technology and outsourcing parts of the accounting process to vendors in other parts of the world....
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Technological Revolutions And The Evolution Of Industrial Structures. Assessing The Impact Of New Technologies On Size, Pattern Of Growth And Boundaries Of The Firms
January 18, 2008, 12:00am PST
In this work the authors discuss the impact of the new ICT techno-economic paradigm upon the vertical and horizontal boundaries of the firm and ask whether the change in the sources of competitive...
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Comparing The Scientific Quality Achieved By Funding Instruments For Single Grant Holders And For Collaborative Networks Within A Research System: Some Observations
January 9, 2008, 12:00am PST
Increasingly, funding of academic research is carried out through the support of collaboration, rather than through single awards to a sole grant holder. The practice is well supported by evidence...
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Internationalization Of Services: The Evolutionary Perspective
January 31, 2008, 12:00am PST
The internationalization of services is a natural part of the evolutionary development of an open market economy. This is neither a recent nor passing phenomena, but a development trajectory along...
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IT Outsourcing In Higher Education Institutions
October 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) have examined IT outsourcing strategies, to ensure that their IT functions could sustain their service requirements while remaining effective and competitive....
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Demand-Based Innovation Policy
January 9, 2008, 12:00am PST
Innovation policy has become tremendously differentiated. This is to some extent a consequence of a more systematic understanding of the innovation process as described in innovation system...
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Policies For Science, Technology And Innovation: Translating Rationales Into Regional Policies In A Multi-Level Setting
July 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Departing from a number of theoretical perspectives from which rationales for Science, Technology and Innovation (STI) policy can be extracted, this paper discusses three questions. First, what...
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Defense Procurement, Innovation And The National Innovation System
January 9, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper is about the implications of a nation's approach to defense procurement for its national innovation system and the innovation that occurs within it. Defense procurement involves choices...
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Out Of Sight: Problem Sequences And Epistemic Boundaries Of Medical Know-How On Glaucoma
January 9, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper analyses the process of knowledge growth in a branch of medical science. The study of scientific advances in glaucoma research is organized in two parts. In the first the authors...
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Modelling International Stock Market Contagion Using Copula And Risk Appetite
October 19, 2007, 12:00am PDT
The risk appetite indices have also successfully captured five other extreme events in the last decade, including two terrorist attacks, corporate scandal in the U.S., LCTM default and the...
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Earnings Reporting And Analysts' Earnings Forecasts: The Perceptions Of UK Analysts And Financial Managers
February 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper contains the findings from exploratory interviews of a small number of investment professionals and financial managers. In addition it reports the results of a small scale survey of...
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Tax-Deductible Pre-Event Catastrophe Loss Reserves: The Case Of Florida
August 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
After Hurricane Andrew the U.S. Congress entertained proposals to allow insurers to employ tax-deferred loss reserves. Interest was strong at first, but as the events receded interest waned. After...
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Towards Higher-Order Virtualization for Chip Multiprocessor Systems
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Parallelization and virtualization are rapidly becoming standard techniques on commodity platforms. The apparent trend is likely to continue in the foreseeable future. Indeed, there is significant...
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Supporting IPv6 Interaction With Wireless Sensor Networks Using NP++
April 20, 2008, 12:00am PDT
There is growing interest in exploiting standard Internet protocols such as IPv6 in wireless sensor networks. Support for IPv6 has the potential to facilitate application development, increase the...
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Establishing Multi-level Security in Mobile Data Access
September 12, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Transaction processing over mobile networks faces new challenges due to limitations in bandwidth and available power, as well as due to intermittent connectivity that causes loss of data and...
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The OWL API: A Java API for Working With OWL 2 Ontologies
October 16, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper presents the OWL API a high level Application Programming Interface (API) for working with OWL 2 ontology's. The API is closely aligned with the OWL 2 structural specification. It...
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The process Of Enterprise Resource Planning Implementation and Business Process Re-Engineering
September 11, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Using an innovative process model, authors describe and analyse the process of introducing enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems in two Chinese small and medium-sized enterprises and...
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Mobile Payment Emerging BusinessMobile Phones and Financial Services in Developing Countries: A Review of Concepts, Methods, Issues, Evidence and Future Research Directions Model Scenarios: Industry Stakeholder Survey Results
March 10, 2009, 12:00am PDT
Research concerning mobile phones and financial services in developing countries has undergone rapid growth in recent years. This paper seeks to improve understanding of this expanding research...
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Assessing the Potential for Mobile Payments in Africa: Approaches and Evidence from Uganda
July 30, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper provides an evaluative framework that assesses the potential for mobile device-based payments (m-payments) in Africa. The framework is developed according to an analysis of the...
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Personal Journal Writing and Collaboration Tools to Assist Doctor of Practical Theology (DPT) Students
December 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
The Doctor of Practical Theology (DPT) 1 is a practice-based research degree aimed at professionals from a range of contexts and institutions across the public, private and voluntary sectors. The...
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Job Scheduling on the Grid: Towards SLA-Based Scheduling
January 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper argues for the need to provide more flexibility in the level of service offered by Grid-enable high-performance, parallel, supercomputing resources. It is envisaged that such need could...
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e-Science Application Development: Analyst and User Perspectives
June 3, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Potential users of e-science software often have strong technical skills, ranging from the use of scripting languages to the development of substantial pieces of software used by other members of...
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Integrating Object-Oriented and Ontological Representations: A Case Study in Java and OWL
August 8, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The Web Ontology Language (OWL) provides a modelling paradigm that is especially well suited for developing models of large, structurally complex domains such as those found in Health Care and the...
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