A problem frequently faced by complex distributed applications is to control the interaction of their communication and computational activities such that they jointly adhere to desired performance and timing requirements. This research concerns communication infrastructures able to cope with the varying processing and QoS1 requirements imposed on them by application programs. Specifically, we ...

Parallelism may reside in the input of a program rather than the program itself. A script interpreter, for example, is hard to parallelize because its dynamic behavior is unpredictable until an input script is given. Once the interpreter is combined with the script, the resulting program becomes predictable, and even parallelizable if the input script contains parallelism. Despite recent progre...

background domestic violence is one of the major health problems among women. promoting preventive behaviors of domestic violence among women and girls can play crucial role in reducing this health problem. objectives this study was conducted to evaluate the effect of an intervention based on precede-proceed model on preventive behaviors of domestic violence among iranian high school girls. pat...

Participation is now a central consideration of policy discourses at EU; national and local levels, particularly in relation to environmental resources. As it becomes a social expectation so the form, meaning and purpose of participation has diversified. While Arnstein’s ladder of citizen participation (Arnstein, 1969) revealed that much ‘participation’ does little to broker a reassignment of p...

The dissemination model for information delivery has motivated an increasing interest, both in wired and wireless environments. In this model, the user subscribes the desired information and then passively receives new and filtered information. We propose a model for dissemination of information to mobile users, called dynamic channel model. It is a set of extensions to the conceptual models de...

The characteristic of being autonomous and proactive makes the agents able to explore a wide solution space, that dynamically changes or contains uncertainty. We propose a language for describing system goals that may be injected at run-time into the system. The novelty of our approach consists in decoupling the business goals (what is expected) and their implementation (how to address the desi...

Deep generative models make visual content creation more accessible to novice users by automating the synthesis of diverse, realistic based on a collected dataset. However, current machine learning approaches miss key element creative process - ability synthesize things that go far beyond data distribution and everyday experience. To begin address this issue, we enable user "warp" given model e...

changes in credit risk may arise when either the value or the risk of corporate assets changes. changes in the equity value associated with the changes in the asset value and changes in asset risk can be characterized into potentially countervailing direct and indirect effects. the indirect effect of risk on equity value is a function of factors that affect the debt value of including leverage,...

changes in credit risk may arise when either the value or the risk of corporate assets changes. changes in the equity value associated with the changes in the asset value and changes in asset risk can be characterized into potentially countervailing direct and indirect effects. the indirect effect of risk on equity value is a function of factors that affect the debt value of including leverage,...