Many applications benefit from the ability to monitor the value of conditions over large, possibly distributed data sets. However, mechanisms to achieve this typically impose a performance overhead that the owners and users of such systems may be unwilling to accept. A compromise solution is to allow system owners to decide at what times they will allow computational resources to be given over ...

The purpose of this study is to examine the effect of direct and indirect monitoring on generosity among five-year-old preschoolers and to reveal the primary motivation for their generosity. Forty-two preschoolers completed one-shot dictator games in Condition 1 while being monitored by the experimenter (the direct monitoring condition). In Condition 2, an image of staring eyes was displayed on...

The temperature of electrostatic chuck (ESC), a wafer susceptor used in semiconductor etch equipment, must accurately control the wafers during etching process to obtain uniform and consistent results. Failure precise can lead rejection from high-volume manufacturing site (one most high-cost equipment components which be repaired for its extended use). In this research, we propose wireless-type...