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Can President Obama save this economy (question mark)

September 8, 2011 6:57pm PDT

Can President Obama save this economy (question mark) I watched President Obama's job speech and thought there were some good things in there. I like continuing the lower payroll tax rate and...

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Doubly Optimal Secure Multicasting: Hierarchical Hybrid Communication Network : Disaster Relief

September 3, 2011 12:00am PDT

Recently, the world has witnessed the increasing occurrence of disasters, some of natural origin and others caused by man. The intensity of the phenomenon that cause such disasters, the frequency...

Provided by: International Institute of Information Technology

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HR Analytics: Driving Return on Human Capital Investment

September 1, 2011 12:00am PDT

Organizations struggle to understand their complex existing and potential workforce. As we navigate today's dynamic economy, do we need to retrench again or pursue growth? We want answers to these...

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Detection of Phishing e-Mail

September 1, 2011 12:00am PDT

Phishing has increased enormously over the last years and is a serious threat to global security and economy. Criminals are trying to convince unsuspecting online users to reveal sensitive...

Provided by: International Journal on Computer Science and Technology (IJCST)

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Analysis and Control of Double-Input Integrated Buck-Buck-Boost Converter for Hybrid Electric Vehicles

September 1, 2011 12:00am PDT

The energy storage unit is one of the most important aspects in structure of hybrid electrical vehicles, since it directly impacts the performance, fuel economy, cost, and weight of the vehicle....

Provided by: International Journal of Advances in Engineering & Technology (IJAET)

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Connectivity in context: Deliver application integration in days

August 31, 2011 12:00am PDT

In today's challenging economy, cutting costs while achieving more is critical to success. Discover how to easily connect your cloud-based applications with each other and with your on-premise...

Provided by: IBM

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Secure and Verifiable Outsourcing of Large-Scale Biometric Computations

August 31, 2011 12:00am PDT

Cloud computing services are becoming prevalent and readily available today, bringing to one economies of scale and making large scale computation feasible. Security and privacy considerations,...

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You can tell the quality of a company by those leaving

August 30, 2011 4:56am PDT

We continue to see organizations trying to survive by cutting expenses. Executive leadership coach John M. McKee says that won't provide long-term success and here's why.

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How to know when you have too much business

August 29, 2011 11:17am PDT

What's the sweet spot for having enough consulting work and income? Chip Camden reveals the answer.

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PipeCloud: Using Causality to Overcome Speed-of-Light Delays in Cloud-Based Disaster Recovery

August 29, 2011 12:00am PDT

Disaster Recovery (DR) is a desirable feature for all enterprises, and a crucial one for many. However, adoption of DR remains limited due to the stark trade-offs it imposes. To recover an...

Provided by: Association for Computing Machinery

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Thunderstorms ahead: How India's biggest outsourcers are facing down the economy's woes

August 26, 2011 3:06am PDT

Top outsourcers could see a dramatic reshuffle in their long-held rankings...

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Strategy Guide to Converged Infrastructure in Government

August 18, 2011 12:00am PDT

This is the point where citizens are most aware of how well their local government serves them. The quality of their experience at that office is likely to influence their opinion of whether they...

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Executives aren't putting the brakes on IT spending, yet

August 12, 2011 10:36am PDT

Technology executives indicated this week that the recent stock market volatility could impact tech spending. But, they also noted that customers are better off than in 2008.

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Performance Constraint and Power-Aware Allocation for User Requests in Virtual Computing Lab

August 12, 2011 12:00am PDT

Cloud computing is driven by economies of scale. A cloud system uses virtualization technology to provide cloud resources (e.g. CPU, memory) to users in form of virtual machines. Virtual Machine...

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IT as an economic indicator

August 11, 2011 12:36am PDT

IT as an economic indicator article root IT as an Economic Indicator I have certain reservations and comments on this issue of IT being an Economic Indicator. At the outset, IT industry as a...

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Search, Distributions, Monetary And Fiscal Policy

August 11, 2011 12:00am PDT

The author studies the effects of anticipated inflation on the macroeconomic performance and whether the fiscal policy regime matters for such effects. The author constructs a tractable framework...

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IT as an economic indicator

August 10, 2011 1:35pm PDT

Patrick Gray finds some reason for hope -- at least as indicated by renewed hiring in IT -- in the midst of a chaotic economic landscape.

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System engineering: Four top design tips

August 10, 2011 12:00am PDT

The current economy has driven many companies to look for ways to take cost out of their products and make their products even more appealing with more feature rich, intelligent products. This is...

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Fiscal Volatility Shocks And Economic Activity

August 9, 2011 12:00am PDT

The authors study the effects of changes in uncertainty about future fiscal policy on aggregate economic activity. Fiscal deficits and public debt have risen sharply in the wake of the financial...

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External Adjustment And The Global Crisis

August 9, 2011 12:00am PDT

The period preceding the global financial crisis was characterized by a substantial widening of current account imbalances across the world. Since the onset of the crisis, these imbalances have...

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