Susa-no-o's Legacy

Olympic Games: No legacy for sports

Countries whose cities host the Summer Olympic Games increase significantly their success during the competition.We study whether such effect is lasting or not. We compute the effect of hosting on the total number of medals in the subsequent games. To confront the issue that the selection of the host city is endogenous, we use a natural counterfactual: countries whose cities also bid for the Ol...

OS Kernel

The basic virtual memory-mapped communication (VMMC) model provides protected, direct communication between the sender's and receiver's virtual address spaces, but it does not support high-level connection-oriented communication APIs well. This paper presents VMMC-2, an extension to the basic VMMC. We describe the design, implementation , and evaluate the performance of three mechanisms in VMMC...

No More Downloading - Using SAS/ODS to Create Graphs and HTML Documents for OS/390 Systems

With the advent of mainframe web server software, such as IBM's 'OS/390 HTTP Server', and with SAS Release 8's new ODS facility, it is now possible to create HTML documents in OS/390 data sets PDS/E, sequential or HFS. Graphs and web pages stored in these OS/390 data sets can be viewed via a web browser. It is no longer necessary to download the documents to another type of platform for viewing...

OS Virtualization

Ikar/os

Das Projekt IKAR/OS (Intelligent Knowledge and Research Operating System) hat sich zum Ziel gesetzt, ein intelligentes Wissensmanagementsystem für die Lebenswissenschaften zu entwickeln. Das Projekt wird von der Firma iAS GmbH (CEO Dr. Hirsch) in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Humanwissenschaftlichen Zentrum der LMU München (Prof. Pöppel) und der Universität Bremen (Prof. Schill) durchgeführt.