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A Prescription for IT Efficiency
Ever-growing concerns over hospital and patient security should incite IT professionals in the healthcare sector to focus on reducing risk. Because of its age, Windows XP poses a measurable security r...
Sponsored By Dell
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Ensure a Valuable Notes-to-Exchange 2013/Office 365 Migration
Scoping out a Lotus Notes to Exchange Server 2013 or Office 365 migration project? Just as important as the migration itself is the way you prepare for the move. A solid plan can positively impact mig...
Sponsored By Dell Software
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How Red Hat Delivers a Secure Enterprise Platform for Next-Generation Datacenters
Security has always been an important consideration when selecting a server operating system for enabling business-critical applications and other essential workloads. This is true now more than ever,...
Sponsored By Red Hat
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11 Ways to Migrate Lotus Notes Applications to SharePoint and Office 365
Preparing to migrate Lotus Notes apps to SharePoint Online/Microsoft Office 365? In this new white paper, get the “need to know” info for this resource-intensive project. Learn about pre-migration an...
Sponsored By Dell Software
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Best Practices for an Active Directory Migration
Migrating to Active Directory isn't a small step. You need to consider costs, downtime, security and more. Not only that, but it’s a complex project that can be difficult if you don’t take every facto...
Sponsored By Dell Software
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7 Steps for a Successful Migration from Domino to Exchange 2013
How will the features of Exchange 2013 affect your Domino to Exchange migration? Will it be seamless? Secure? Affordable? Successful? In this new white paper, get a better understanding of the Domino ...
Sponsored By Dell Software
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The Executive's Guide to Windows 8
IT decision makers have many factors to consider when determining what their organization might gain -- or lose -- from a Windows 8 upgrade. In this guide, you'll see what industry analysts and IT pro...
Sponsored By TechRepublic
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SAP and Sybase: A Marriage Made in Database Heaven (IDC)
Examine information about SAP and Sybase, a year after their merger, provided at analyst briefings in May, 2011. These briefings were held at the SAPPHIRE NOW conference in Orlando, FL, and the Sybase...
Sponsored By SAP
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Top Eight Features of Windows 8 Client
Windows 8 is still Longhorn (albeit "Longhorn point two"), and when you find your way to Windows Explorer, the Registry Editor, the various control panels, and administrative tools, you will be in fai...
Sponsored By Global Knowledge
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Windows 8 Reality
Windows 8 is a Tablet OS first and foremost. Microsoft is designing Windows 8 to run on any type of form-factor, but its roots will be the slate or tablet style of interface. Personally, I know it wil...
Sponsored By Global Knowledge
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Minimizing Windows 7 "Interface Shock"
Every desktop administrator worries about the potential disruption from a new user interface. Such a distraction has come to be known as "interface shock." Fortunately, it is possible to minimize inte...
Sponsored By Global Knowledge
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Leveraging Windows 7 for Better User Support
The good news is that I can't remember seeing a new version of Windows that does more for the support professional than Windows 7 does. This white paper takes a look at some Windows 7 technologies tha...
Sponsored By Global Knowledge
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Windows 7 Troubleshooting Tips
Your company has finally migrated to Windows 7. Congratulations! And now you have your first support call. This Microsoft white paper will tell you all you need to know about the new troubleshooting t...
Sponsored By Global Knowledge
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Tips and Techniques for Red Hat Certification Success
Passing the Red Hat Certified Technician (RHCT), Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE), or one of the Architect-level exams is a major undertaking, but when you're successful it's a major accomplishment w...
Sponsored By Global Knowledge
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Top Ten Things Every IT Pro Should Know about IE8 on Windows 7
Every new version of Windows comes with a new version of Internet Explorer, and in the case of Windows 7, it's IE8. There are a lot of new or updated features, and this white paper discusses the top t...
Sponsored By Global Knowledge
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Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP2, R2, R3: Making Sense of the Three Versions
Microsoft has engaged in a continual process of upgrading, enhancing, and improving its System Center Configuration Management server since its release several years ago. At this point, organizations ...
Sponsored By Global Knowledge
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77 Features for Windows 7 that Every IT Professional Should Know About
Windows 7 builds on Windows Vista's positives and eliminates many of the negatives. It adds new functionality, is less resource-hungry, and starts and shuts down noticeably faster. Whether you're upgr...
Sponsored By Global Knowledge
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Assessing Your Organization's Readiness for Windows 7
There has been great interest in the subject of Microsoft's Windows 7 in recent months, and the advent of a new operating system in any organization is inevitably disruptive to some degree. Readiness ...
Sponsored By Global Knowledge
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Top Five Reasons Why You Must Migrate Away From Windows XP Today
The end is coming soon for Windows XP support, but a surprising number of organizations have yet to make the move to either Windows 7 or 8. There are big benefits in moving to the new operating system...
Provided By Dell
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Best Practices For Migrating Healthcare Organizations From Windows XP To Windows 7
The migration of an entire health enterprise from a highly-entrenched Windows XP to Windows 7 can pose a challenge, but the process can be much easier with a well-planned approach. Windows XP was desi...
Provided By Dell
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Make the right deploy decision when applying Microsoft's June 2013 patches
Deb Shinder gathers the information you need to make the right deploy decision when applying Microsoft's June 2013 patches in your organization.
Provided By Deb Shinder
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Make the right deploy decision when applying Microsoft's May 2013 patches
Deb Shinder gathers the information you need to make the right deploy decision when applying Microsoft's May 2013 patches in your organization.
Provided By Deb Shinder
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Countdown to April 2014 and the End of Windows XP: 4 Things You Should Know
Windows XP, arguably the most enduring OS Microsoft has released, will be officially phased out April 2014 when the company “sunsets” support for the product. Is your team ready? View our special on-d...
Provided By Quest Software, Inc., now a part of Dell
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A sunny migration for Met Office
The UK’s national weather service saves £45,000 and weeks of time in Windows 7 migration, thanks to ChangeBASE. The Met Office was embarking on a universal migration to Windows 7 from XP, and nee...
Provided By Quest Software, Inc., now a part of Dell
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Migrating Your Applications to the Cloud: How to Overcome the Challenges and Reduce the Costs
Migration to a new platform used to be a comparatively straightforward process. Today, however, many organizations want to realize the benefits of using their applications in the cloud, and migrating ...
Provided By Quest Software, Inc., now a part of Dell
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Mastering Exchange Migrations
Ensure a safe, secure and affordable migration to Exchange 2013 Are you ready to make the move to Exchange 2013 and enjoy its new, powerful features? In this new white paper, see if your company is r...
Provided By Dell Software
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Ensuring a Successful Migration, Consolidation or Restructuring with Dell
Organizations are increasingly facing IT infrastructure consolidations, restructuring, and migrations due to acquisitions, mergers or to achieve specific business goals. Transitioning or consolidating...
Provided By Quest Software
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Make the right deploy decision when applying Microsoft's March 2013 patches
Deb Shinder gathers the information you need to make the right deploy decision when applying Microsoft's March 2013 patches in your organization.
Provided By Deb Shinder
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Smooth Migration for Belgian ICT Shared Service Organization
Smals is a Belgian ICT shared service organization specializing in infrastructure and applications for public institutions in social security and healthcare. Their challenges were to reduce costs and ...
Provided By Cisco
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eGuide: A prescription for IT efficiency
Security is more important in the healthcare setting than many other industries. Breaches of patient data can result in HIPAA violations and government investigations. Breaches of system security can ...
Provided By Dell & Microsoft
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Reduce desktop TCO, improve user productivity and unlock new technologies
Optimize current and future desktop environments by taking the pain and cost out of configuring desktops, troublesome roaming profiles and their lengthy logon times and corruption related support call...
Provided By AppSense
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Digital Signature Based Fax Machine Using ARM9 and Linux
In this method, the authors are having the S3C2240A (ARM9) Board which is ported with Linux in it. And this ARM9 board with Linux will be connected to the Touch Screen device. This ARM9 board intern w...
Provided By International Journal of Electronics Communication and Computer Engineering
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Make the right deploy decision when applying Microsoft's February 2013 patches
Deb Shinder gathers the information you need to make the right deploy decision when applying Microsoft's February 2013 patches in your organization.
Provided By Deb Shinder
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Apple IPhone Operating System
A drastic change has been seen since from past 2 years in mobile technology. The world's most advance and popular phone is iPhone which runs on apple ios. ios provides a platform which is flexible, sc...
Provided By Amity University
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Six myths of Windows RT revealed
Misinformation has circulated around Windows RT, the new Microsoft OS for tablets that powers a range of new Dell devices. This white paper confronts the top myths and helps to clarify the true capabi...
Provided By Dell & Microsoft
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Why Upgrading from XP to Windows 7 Makes Business Sense
Many large enterprises still rely on Windows XP-based PCs. For some, reliance on legacy applications made it easy to delay an operating system upgrade and migration. Others just never got around to al...
Provided By Dell & Microsoft
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What are your options when performing a Windows migration?
Microsoft will end support for Windows XP in April 2014 which means that enterprises need to migrate to Windows 7 quickly or lose support for one of the most important technologies in the enterprise d...
Provided By AppSense
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Make the right deploy decision when applying Microsoft's January 2013 patches
Deb Shinder gathers the information you need to make the right deploy decision when applying Microsoft's January 2013 patches in your organization.
Provided By Deb Shinder
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Quest ChangeBASE Cuts Application Packaging Time by a Third at RET, Keeping Windows 7 Migration on Schedule
Learn about RET’s Windows 7 migration and how all of RET's primary applications are being put through ChangeBASE Professional for analysis. Some applications are automatically fixed, and others are ta...
Provided By Dell Software
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Best Practices for an Active Directory Migration
An Active Directory migration can be complex. You must first understand your source environment at the domain and the object level to make good decisions and minimize the data you need to move. Then y...
Provided By Dell Software
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11 Ways to Migrate Lotus Notes Applications to SharePoint and Office 365
Preparing to migrate Lotus Notes apps to SharePoint Online/Microsoft Office 365? In this new white paper, get the “need to know” info for this resource-intensive project. Learn about pre-migration an...
Sponsored By Dell Software
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Best Practices for an Active Directory Migration
Migrating to Active Directory isn't a small step. You need to consider costs, downtime, security and more. Not only that, but it’s a complex project that can be difficult if you don’t take every facto...
Sponsored By Dell Software
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Leveraging Windows 7 for Better User Support
The good news is that I can't remember seeing a new version of Windows that does more for the support professional than Windows 7 does. This white paper takes a look at some Windows 7 technologies tha...
Sponsored By Global Knowledge
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7 Steps for a Successful Migration from Domino to Exchange 2013
How will the features of Exchange 2013 affect your Domino to Exchange migration? Will it be seamless? Secure? Affordable? Successful? In this new white paper, get a better understanding of the Domino ...
Sponsored By Dell Software
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The Executive's Guide to Windows 8
IT decision makers have many factors to consider when determining what their organization might gain -- or lose -- from a Windows 8 upgrade. In this guide, you'll see what industry analysts and IT pro...
Sponsored By TechRepublic
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Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP2, R2, R3: Making Sense of the Three Versions
Microsoft has engaged in a continual process of upgrading, enhancing, and improving its System Center Configuration Management server since its release several years ago. At this point, organizations ...
Sponsored By Global Knowledge
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Windows 7 Troubleshooting Tips
Your company has finally migrated to Windows 7. Congratulations! And now you have your first support call. This Microsoft white paper will tell you all you need to know about the new troubleshooting t...
Sponsored By Global Knowledge
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Windows 8 Reality
Windows 8 is a Tablet OS first and foremost. Microsoft is designing Windows 8 to run on any type of form-factor, but its roots will be the slate or tablet style of interface. Personally, I know it wil...
Sponsored By Global Knowledge
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Top Ten Things Every IT Pro Should Know about IE8 on Windows 7
Every new version of Windows comes with a new version of Internet Explorer, and in the case of Windows 7, it's IE8. There are a lot of new or updated features, and this white paper discusses the top t...
Sponsored By Global Knowledge
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Tips and Techniques for Red Hat Certification Success
Passing the Red Hat Certified Technician (RHCT), Red Hat Certified Engineer (RHCE), or one of the Architect-level exams is a major undertaking, but when you're successful it's a major accomplishment w...
Sponsored By Global Knowledge
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SAP and Sybase: A Marriage Made in Database Heaven (IDC)
Examine information about SAP and Sybase, a year after their merger, provided at analyst briefings in May, 2011. These briefings were held at the SAPPHIRE NOW conference in Orlando, FL, and the Sybase...
Sponsored By SAP
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77 Features for Windows 7 that Every IT Professional Should Know About
Windows 7 builds on Windows Vista's positives and eliminates many of the negatives. It adds new functionality, is less resource-hungry, and starts and shuts down noticeably faster. Whether you're upgr...
Sponsored By Global Knowledge
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Top Eight Features of Windows 8 Client
Windows 8 is still Longhorn (albeit "Longhorn point two"), and when you find your way to Windows Explorer, the Registry Editor, the various control panels, and administrative tools, you will be in fai...
Sponsored By Global Knowledge
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How Red Hat Delivers a Secure Enterprise Platform for Next-Generation Datacenters
Security has always been an important consideration when selecting a server operating system for enabling business-critical applications and other essential workloads. This is true now more than ever,...
Sponsored By Red Hat
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Ensure a Valuable Notes-to-Exchange 2013/Office 365 Migration
Scoping out a Lotus Notes to Exchange Server 2013 or Office 365 migration project? Just as important as the migration itself is the way you prepare for the move. A solid plan can positively impact mig...
Sponsored By Dell Software
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Minimizing Windows 7 "Interface Shock"
Every desktop administrator worries about the potential disruption from a new user interface. Such a distraction has come to be known as "interface shock." Fortunately, it is possible to minimize inte...
Sponsored By Global Knowledge
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Assessing Your Organization's Readiness for Windows 7
There has been great interest in the subject of Microsoft's Windows 7 in recent months, and the advent of a new operating system in any organization is inevitably disruptive to some degree. Readiness ...
Sponsored By Global Knowledge
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A Prescription for IT Efficiency
Ever-growing concerns over hospital and patient security should incite IT professionals in the healthcare sector to focus on reducing risk. Because of its age, Windows XP poses a measurable security r...
Sponsored By Dell
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The Impact Of Migration On Foreign Trade: A Developing Country Approach
While the causal relationship between migration and trade has not been studied thoroughly, estimation results of gravity model approach suggest that important aspects determining trade volumes can be ...
Provided By Munich Personal Repec Archive
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On Benchmarking Embedded Linux Flash File Systems
Due to its attractive characteristics in terms of performance, weight and power consumption, NAND ash memory became the main Non Volatile Memory (NVM) in embedded systems. Those NVMs also present some...
Provided By Université du Sud - Toulon - Var
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A Hardware Time Manager Implementation for the Xenomai Real-Time Kernel of Embedded Linux
Nowadays, the use of embedded operating systems in different embedded projects is subject to a tremendous growth. Embedded Linux is becoming one of those most popular EOSs due to its modularity, effic...
Provided By Université du Sud - Toulon - Var
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libDAI: A Free and Open Source C++ Library for Discrete Approximate Inference in Graphical Models
This paper describes the software package libDAI, a free & open source C++ library that provides implementations of various exact and approximate inference methods for graphical models with discrete-v...
Provided By Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen
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Some Observations on Open Source Software Development on Software Engineering Perspectives
Several argument has been made that open source software development process some times also referred as Free and Open Source Software Development (FOSSD) violates the traditional software engineering...
Provided By Rani Durgawati Vishwavidyalya
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Performance Analysis of Scheduling Algorithms For VoIP Services in IEEE 802.16 Systems
VoIP applications are being widely used in today's networks challenging their capabilities to provide a good quality of experience level to the users. In particular, there are several scheduling algor...
Provided By International Journal of Computer Science Issues
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Improving Quality of VoIP over WiMAX
Real-time services such as VoIP are becoming popular and are major revenue earners for network service providers. These services are no longer confined to the wired domain and are being extended over ...
Provided By International Journal of Computer Science Issues
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Improvement in Medium Access Control Protocol Based on New Contention Scheme for Wireless Ad Hoc Network
In todays wireless networks, stations using the IEEE 802.11 standard contend for the channel using the Distributed Coordination Function (DCF). Research has shown that DCF's performance degrades espec...
Provided By International Journal of Computer Science Issues
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Kingfisher: A System for Elastic Cost-Aware Provisioning in the Cloud
Cloud computing platforms allow application providers to rent server capacity to run hosted applications and to dynamically vary the rented capacity to match demand. Today's cloud platforms offer a pl...
Provided By University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Redline: First Class Support for Interactivity in Commodity Operating Systems
While modern workloads are increasingly interactive and resource-intensive (e.g., graphical user interfaces, browsers, and multimedia players), current operating systems have not kept up. These operat...
Provided By University of Massachusetts Amherst
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The Linux Pseudorandom Number Generator Revisited
The Linux PseudoRandom Number Generator (PRNG) is a PRNG with entropy inputs which is widely used in many security related applications and protocols. This PRNG is written as an open source code which...
Provided By Aalto University
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Least Privilege and Windows 7
This paper introduces the application of least privilege on Windows 7 (and applies equally to Windows Vista). It provides an overview of User Account Control (UAC), its benefits and limitations, and w...
Provided By Avecto
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Building XenoBuntu Linux Distribution for Teaching and Prototyping Real-Time Operating Systems
This paper describes the realization of a new Linux distribution based on Ubuntu Linux and Xenomai Real-Time framework. This realization is motivated by the eminent need of real-time systems in modern...
Provided By University of Carthage
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Tiering Storage Primer: Data Classification, Archiving Key
Tiering storage can be a challenge. Data must be classified into the right storage tiers, and it's not always clear what data should go where. IT managers must also comb through several different type...
Provided By Tandy Leather Factory
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European Integration And Labour Migration
The present paper studies how European integration might affect the migration of workers in the enlarged EU. Unlike the reduced-form migration models, the authors base this empirical analysis on the t...
Provided By Economics and Econometrics Research Institute
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Practical Schedulability Analysis for Generalized Sporadic Tasks in Distributed Real-Time Systems
Existing off-line schedulability analysis for real-time systems can only handle periodic or sporadic tasks with known minimum inter-arrival times. Modeling sporadic tasks with fixed minimum inter-arri...
Provided By Washington Trust Bank
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An Effective Forwarding Architecture for SMP Linux Routers
Recent technological advances provide an excellent opportunity to achieve truly effective results in the field of open Internet devices based on PC COTS Hardware, also known as Open Routers. In this e...
Provided By Università degli Studi di Genova
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The Bitter Taste Of Strawberry Jam: Distortions On Romanian Labour Market Beyond 2007
The authors consider that their paper could bring an important contribution for the debates of the conference, having in mind the issues of the research they propose. They chose Romania as case study ...
Provided By Munich Personal Repec Archive
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A Generic Process Migration Algorithm
Process migration has been advocated as a means of improving multicomputer configuration performance. The optimized migration algorithm utilized in migration event has direct effect on the efficiency ...
Provided By University Putra Malaysia
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Six myths of Windows RT revealed
Misinformation has circulated around Windows RT, the new Microsoft OS for tablets that powers a range of new Dell devices. This white paper confronts the top myths and helps to clarify the true capabi...
Provided By Dell & Microsoft
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Why Upgrading from XP to Windows 7 Makes Business Sense
Many large enterprises still rely on Windows XP-based PCs. For some, reliance on legacy applications made it easy to delay an operating system upgrade and migration. Others just never got around to al...
Provided By Dell & Microsoft
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eGuide: A prescription for IT efficiency
Security is more important in the healthcare setting than many other industries. Breaches of patient data can result in HIPAA violations and government investigations. Breaches of system security can ...
Provided By Dell & Microsoft