Nota introduttiva n. 22 – giugno 2015

Lecture 22 — November 19 , 2015

In terms of exact numbers, hard drives support somewhere around 140MB/sec of sequential reads/writes, but only 120I/O’s/sec when doing reads/writes on random 4KB chunks. This is because the disk must physically spin to the read/write location. RAM supports somewhere around 5-10GB/sec of reads/writes, with much less penalty for random access. SSDs/Flash is somewhere in the middle, but with the i...

Scottish Vision Group, Carnoustie, Scotland, UK, 20–22 March 2015

Scottish Vision Group, Carnoustie, Scotland, UK, 20–22 March 2015

Get Smart About Antibiotics Week -- November 16-22, 2015.

Get Smart About Antibiotics Week is November 14-20, 2016. This annual observance is intended to engage health care providers, professional societies, advocacy groups, for-profit companies, state and local health departments, the general public, the media, and others in an effort to improve antibiotic stewardship in outpatient, inpatient, nursing home, and animal health settings. During this wee...

International Conference on Biometrics, ICB 2015, Phuket, Thailand, 19-22 May, 2015

Nota Di Lavoro 117 . 2010

We consider a multimarket framework where a set of firms compete on two interrelated oligopolistic markets. Prior to competing in these markets, firms can spy on others in order to increase the quality of their product. We characterize the equilibrium espionage networks and networks that maximize social welfare under the most interesting scenario of diseconomies of scope. We find that in some s...